Ahead of their highly anticipated rematch on the 3rd December boxers, Miguel Cotto & Antonio Margarito, sit down with HBO to discuss their first fight & the hand-wraps controversy that now surrounds the outcome.
Max Kellerman hosts.

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Antonio Margarito vs. Shane Mosley, billed as It’s On, was a professional boxing match contested on January 24, 2009, for the WBA and vacant Lineal welterweight championship.

Following his upset victory over WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto in July 2008, Antonio Margarito’s promoter Top Rank were planning for a summer rematch with a potential interim fight in between. In autumn 2008 a deal was agreed with Golden Boy Promotions for Margarito to face former 3 weight champion Shane Mosley on 24 January 2009, with $2 million for each man on the table.

At the 9 December press conference, Margarito told the reporters “I have being looking for the biggest fights for a long time, and this one against Mosley is one of them. As I proved with Miguel Cotto, I have never ducked anyone in my career and I’m looking forward to showing the fans again why I am the best welterweight in the world. I fear no one. This fight will be my moment to shine and I will not let it pass by.” Mosley meanwhile said “I’m glad Margarito decided to step up to the plate and fight me. If Margarito thinks he is the bigger puncher than I, he is delusional. I will definitely win this fight, especially with the type of fighter he is. He is going to end up getting knocked out because he’ll come right at me and I’ll catch him.”

Mosley’s build up to the bout had been hit by multiple issues, firstly he had fired his father as his trainer (for the second time), he was still dealing with the legal issues surrounding his involvement in the BALCO scandal and he had separated with his wife (and now former manager) Jin.

Mosley, was a 4–1 underdog with the bookies.

Shortley before the bout, Mosley’s trainer, Naazim Richardson, observed that Margarito had a pasty white substance in his handwraps. One doctor described this material as plaster hidden in the wrapped hands of Margarito, leading to accusations that he may have been trying to cheat.

At Richardson’s insistence, California State Inspector Dean Lohuis called for Margarito’s hands to be rewrapped. According to Judd Burstein, the attorney for Mosley, Margarito had wet pads in the wrapping. Mosley’s doctor, Robert Olvera, likened the material to the type of plaster used to make casts. Burstein said he seized the pad removed from the wrapping and another pad found in Margarito’s dressing room. Both were placed in a sealed box that was given to Lohuis for further study.
The California Department of Justice laboratory later confirmed the substance to be similar in nature to plaster of Paris.

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Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II was a professional boxing match contested on December 3, 2011, for the WBA (Super) Super-Welterweight championship. The bout was at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, United States under the promotion of Top Rank at a catchweight of 153 pounds.

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Félix Trinidad vs. Fernando Vargas, billed as Forces of Destruction, was a professional boxing match contested on December 2, 2000, for the WBA and IBF light middleweight championship.

Since moving up to light middleweight division to defeat David Reid for the WBA title, Félix Trinidad had made one successful defence, against mandatory contender Mamadou Thiam. Following that fight Trinidad’s promoter Don King expressed interest in a unification bout with IBF champion Fernando Vargas, describing it as “a fight we want”.

During the press tour to promote the bout, Trinidad would say “For the public, this is going to be the fight of the year. This will be a big fight and I know Vargas is a good fighter, but I am convinced I’m going to win.” Meanwhile, Vargas predicted a knockout saying “I’ve never been down, but he’s been down six or seven times, if I hurt him, I will stop him”.

Trinidad was a 7 to 5 favourite to win with the bookies. Many boxing experts were split on who would win, with Steve Farhood, the former editor of Ring magazine saying “I’m picking Trinidad but only because I have to. It’s as difficult to call as any fight I can remember. I just don’t feel Trinidad’s weaknesses play into Vargas’s strengths. Trinidad is the harder puncher and more experienced and is just as natural at the weight”.

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Wilfred Benítez vs. Thomas Hearns, billed as The Battle of Champions, was a professional boxing match contested on December 3, 1982, for the WBC light middleweight title.

A fight between Wilfred Benítez and Thomas Hearns had been in the works for over two years. In November 1980 it was announced that the two fighters had been booked for a February 1981 bout in Madison Square Garden that was going to be on a blockbuster fight card billed as “This Is It” that also featured a heavyweight fight between Ken Norton and Gerry Cooney and a light heavyweight title unification bout between WBA title holder Eddie Mustafa Muhammad and WBC champion Matthew Saad Muhammad. However the fight card was cancelled two weeks before its scheduled date when promoter Harold Smith was brought up on fraud and embezzlement charges against Wells Fargo.

Following the cancellation of the “This Is It” card, Madison Square Garden officials were still interested in including the Benítez–Hearns fight on the undercard of the rescheduled Ken Norton–Gerry Cooney fight set for May 11, 1981. Despite an offer of around $700,000, Benítez and manager Jimmy Jacobs rejected the offer in favor of a less–lucrative fight that would see Benítez moving up in weight and challenging WBC light middleweight champion Maurice Hope for his third world title.

Benítez would defeat Hope to become the youngest three–division world champion in boxing history at the time.[8] He would then make two successful title defenses against Carlos Santos and Roberto Durán before an agreement was reached in October 1982 to face Hearns on December 3 of that year.

The Benítez–Hearns fight was promoted by Don King with a co–main event featuring a super bantamweight championship fight between Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor in a fight card dubbed “The Carnival of Champions.”

The massive Louisiana Superdome was chosen as the site for event and it was expected to draw a crowd of 40,000. However, ticket sales fell well short of expectations and King convinced Benítez and Hearns to take a $250,000 pay cut from their original $1.5 million purses, while Gomez and Pintor’s purses of $750,000 were reduced by $125,000 in order to save the event.

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