Mr Lawrence Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Yup. The Cotto fight is worth the months charge alone. Degale and Groves fighting on the same card as well in December. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 18, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 18, 2011 ahhh well that didn't last long. Enzo looked good in what we saw, but it's always frustrating when a referee seems to be primed to stop a fight at the first possible oppurtunit. I think he prevented the inevitable but i think the Hungarian deserved a standing 8 count. Â Still it got me excited to see Enzo again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 19, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 Cotto vs Margarito 2 might be in jeopardy  The New York State Athletic Commission on Friday ordered Antonio Margarito to submit to a thorough examination of his right eye by a doctor of the commission's choosing before it would vote on his application for a boxing license. When and where the exam will take place was not decided at the meeting.  Margarito is scheduled to challenge junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 3 in a major HBO PPV event. However, the commission originally denied his license in early November before holding a hearing on Wednesday -- at the request of Margarito and promoter Top Rank -- to hear testimony from its medical personnel and from Margarito's doctors to reconsider the application.  In addition to a badly broken orbital bone in his face, Margarito suffered a serious eye injury during a one-sided decision loss to Manny Pacquiao last Nov. 13 and has not fought since.  As a result of the beating Margarito took, he developed a large cataract in his right eye. Margarito and his team at first considered the injury to be career ending. However, he eventually had cataract surgery and an artificial lens placed in his eye by Dr. Alan Crandall in Salt Lake City this past spring.  As a matter of policy, the New York commission -- chairperson Melvina Lathan, Edwin Torres and Thomas Santino -- denies applicants with the kind of eye issues Margarito has, although it is within its rights to give a license.  The commission gathered Friday morning and immediately moved to executive session to discuss Margarito's medical records. When the members returned about 45 minutes later Lathan made the announcement.  Saying that the commission's "primary objective is to safeguard the health and safety of all the athletes who compete under its jurisdiction," Lathan said the commission is "noting our multiple concerns" about Margarito's right eye.  She said the commission was directing Margarito to submit "as soon as possible" to an eye exam in New York.  Lathan gave David Moroso, Margarito's attorney, who was at the hearing, one hour to contact Margarito, who is training in Mexico, to see if he would submit to the exam.  Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said Margarito would submit to the exam and was pleased with the decision.  "That's good. That's fine," Arum told ESPN.com. "That means he is not going to be automatically disqualified because he had the cataract surgery. The surgery was performed by the best possible doctor (Crandall). As long as it's a competent doctor in New York who does the exam, fine. It's better than a denial."  Arum said he wanted Crandall and New York's chief commission doctor to get together and agree on a neutral ophthalmologist to examine Margarito, whom Arum said was willing to break camp for the exam.  The commission wanted Margarito to come to New York for the exam. But Moroso said that while Margarito had no problem submitting to the exam, he argued that forcing Margarito to break camp to fly back and forth from Mexico to New York over the course of a couple of days at the height of his preparation -- just two weeks before the fight -- "would be a massive disruption to his training that could be dangerous."  Moroso suggested that the commission doctors "caucus" with Margarito's doctors via teleconference to ask any specific questions that were not covered at Wednesday's hearing and that perhaps the commission doctors could have their questions answered so they would decide he was fit to box.  Moroso said if the commission doctors were not persuaded, "we can work on the logistics of getting Mr. Margarito to submit to an exam."  The commission shot down the idea of the teleconference for the doctors, saying it would simply drag out a process that has already been time consuming.  The sides argued the point for several minutes, prompting an agitated Lathan to say, "I'm just as pissed off as anyone else."  Moroso suggested that the doctor selected by the commission meet Margarito somewhere in between Mexico and New York so he does not have to travel all the way to the East Coast.  The commission eventually agreed to the suggestion with Moroso saying it would assist with the logistics and provide transportation for the doctor.  Arum said he is happy with the plan.  "We offered to do this six weeks ago and we are happy to do it now," he said. "They are arranging how the exam will take place and we will fly Margarito and the doctor in."  Arum suggested that the exam should take place in Salt Lake City at Crandall's office, so all of the necessary equipment will be available.  "Whichever doctor the commission selects, he will examine Margarito and find the same thing our doctor has found, that he is OK," Arum said.  If New York denies the license, Arum said he will move the fight on short notice to another venue with places such as Denver, Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and venues in Mississippi possible.  Margarito's licensing issues in New York have nothing to do with the hand-wrapping scandal that saw him have his license revoked in California for trying to enter the ring with loaded hand wraps for a January 2009 fight with Shane Mosley.  He sat out for 16 months and although California denied Margarito's application to be relicensed and Nevada refused to rule on an application, he was eventually licensed in Texas and fought Pacquiao at Cowboys Stadium a year ago.  Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) and Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs) first met in 2008 in what turned out to be a tremendous action fight. Mexico's Margarito came on strong in the later rounds and stopped Puerto Rico's Cotto in the 11th round of a bloody battle, taking his welterweight belt at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.  Because Margarito was caught trying to fight Mosley with loaded hand wraps in his next fight, and had administered significant facial damage to Cotto in the later rounds, many suspected he had gotten away with wearing illegal hand wraps, making the Dec. 3 fight a much-anticipated grudge rematch.  lets hope this all gets sorted out and the fight goes ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 19, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 19, 2011 read they are trying to ship it over to the Cowboy's Stadium. Â I read in Boxing News a few weeks back that they were expecting it to be called off, needs to happen!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 David Haye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 23, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 23, 2011 it aint confirmed yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Of Muppets Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Cant wait for Cotto/Margo. Â Murray/Rios & Wolak/Rodriguez on the undercard too. Â What a slugfest that card will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmcstyles Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Well on the topic of boxing I wouldnt mind putting a question across about Boxing Gear. Â Ive got fed up of wearing wraps for boxing. Went to sports direct saw some inner lonsdale padded gloves. Â http://i.ebayimg.com/18/!B-UNMKgEWk~...elFnw~~0_35.JPG Â I wouldnt trust Lonsdale to save my life BUT does anyone know of some inner gloves which do the job well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted November 24, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2011 Cant wait for Cotto/Margo. Murray/Rios & Wolak/Rodriguez on the undercard too.  What a slugfest that card will be. gonna be tremendous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2011 I really hope Cotto smashes Margarito this time but I'm picking Margarito to stop him sometime around 10 or 11. Hope I'm wrong. The build up so far has been tremendous. Â In other news Ricky Burns wants to fight Juan Manuel Marquez. Can't see this happening at this point but would be a huge fight for Burns. I think Marquez would win that one though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 24, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 24, 2011 With all the recent talk of Margarito and the hand wraps scandal does anyone remember a couple of months ago when we were discussing the Luis Resto vs Billy Collins Jr glove tampering scandal on here? For anyone who's not familiar, Resto was found to have padding removed from his gloves and later admitted to using Plaster of Paris which his trainer Panama Lewis was in on. Collins was battered almost blind and never fought again and died in a car crash shortly after. Resto went to jail for 3 years.  here's the great documentary 'Assault In The Ring' on the subject Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP2z6yrQFSo  Well, I've just read that Luis Resto is planning to apply for a trainers license.  The New York State Athletic Commission is currently grappling with the issue of whether Antonio Margarito is fit to fight on Dec. 3. But the agency may soon have another complicated case to deal with next week, adding to their agita. Luis Resto, the former Bronx welterweight, who went to jail for using gloves and wraps that were doctored in a fight, says he plans on applying for his second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Fox Piss Posted November 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 Doesn't Panama play a part to this day with fighters such a Judah? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 I think so yeah. He'd worked with Tyson aswell among others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooner Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Credit:Itv.com  The Fight of Their Lives Nigel Benn V Gerald McClellan itv Documentary The Fight of Their Lives  Episode: 1 of 1Monday, 5 December 2011, 10:35PM - 11:50PM  Factual  Production house: ITV Sport Productions Press contacts: Nick Dear nick.dear@itv.com Viewer enquiries: viewerservices@itv.com   Considered by many to be the greatest world title fight ever seen in Britain, Nigel Benn versus the American Gerald McClellan ended in such tragic circumstances it has never been broadcast since.  Now, 16 years later, ITV has unlocked its archive to allow the incredible story of that savage night to be told in full.  Nigel Benn, a British paratrooper turned world class fighter, faced America Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted November 25, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 25, 2011 Finally, that's great news. I've been hearing about documentaries in the works for a couple of years now but nothing was happening, I even emailed ITV a few months back but they said they had no plans for it.  Good to see this story is gonna be told. I knew about the reunion but only seen this picture  Be interesting to see the footage.  Cheers for posting that Gooner. You were in attendance at the fight? That must have been a mental atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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