<TABLE class=StoryText cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width=753 bgColor=white><TABLE class=StoryText cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0 align=right bgColor=#f9ffff border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width=730 bgColor=white>World Boxing Council defends Antonio Margarito <HR><TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0 width=70 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=0 width=70 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!--google_ad_client = "pub-6136660823888781";google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";//2007-03-09: Chee Press NEWgoogle_ad_channel = "0670845653";google_color_border = "FFFFFF";google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";google_color_link = "0000FF";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "0000FF";//--></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/test_domain.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/render_ads.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>window.google_render_ad();</SCRIPT><INS style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; VISIBILITY: visible; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 250px"><INS style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; DISPLAY: block; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; VISIBILITY: visible; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 300px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 250px"><IFRAME id=google_ads_frame1 style="LEFT: 0px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 0px" name=google_ads_frame marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-6136660823888781&dt=1235021456110&lmt=1234639393&alt_color=FFFFFF&format=300x250_as&output=html&correlator=1235021456110&channel=0670845653&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doghouseboxing.com%2FChee%2FChee021409.htm&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_text=000000&color_link=0000FF&color_url=0000FF&color_border=FFFFFF&ad_type=text_image&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fmaxboxing.com%2FNews%2Fnewslinks.asp&frm=0&ga_vid=227547563.1235021456&ga_sid=1235021456&ga_hid=1615770303&flash=9.0.124.0&u_h=1024&u_w=1280&u_ah=994&u_aw=1280&u_cd=32&u_tz=-300&u_java=true&dtd=32&w=300&h=250&xpc=7W5Fqgw76C&p=http%3A//www.doghouseboxing.com" frameBorder=0 width=300 scrolling=no height=250 allowTransparency></IFRAME></INS></INS></TD></TR><TR><TD><SCRIPT type=text/javascript><!--google_ad_client = "pub-6136660823888781";google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";google_ad_width = 300;google_ad_height = 250;google_ad_format = "300x250_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";//2007-03-09: Chee Press NEWgoogle_ad_channel = "0670845653";google_color_border = "FFFFFF";google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";google_color_link = "0000FF";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "0000FF";//--></SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT><SCRIPT>window.google_render_ad();</SCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman, announced today that the Mexican Federation of Boxing Commissions, the Boxing Commission of Tijuana, and the WBC Offices in Mexico, have agreed to face up together the situation of Mexican fighter, Antonio Margarito, who has been revoked his boxing license (suspended) for a year by the California State Athletic Commission, and defend him. Such Commission was one of the Commissions that founded the WBC back in February 1963, and is a Commission with which the organization has had excellent relations and reached agreements of mutual cooperation. The WBC, founded 46 years ago and formed by people who have vast experience in boxing, can not conceive that a boxer is suspended because of a bandaging, as the only people responsible for it, are the managers, the ones who solely execute such an important responsibility without ever receiving instructions from their fighters on what to use in the bandaging or how to use it. The fighter always trusts his managers widely, and he only extends his hands and moves them the way the manager tells him to do it. On June 16th, 1982, in the fight between Luis Resto and Billy Collins, in New York, just to give an example from many there are, some banned substance was found in the gloves worn by Resto, who won the fight, and due to that fact, manager Carl “Panama†Lewis was suspended for life, but Luis Resto was not involved at all, and not only that, his win was confirmed as such, without any modification. WBC President, Jose Sulaiman, in order to confirm or modify his own experience regarding bandaging, as a fighter he used to be in his early youth, and after being in the locker rooms of thousands of bouts throughout his 60 years in boxing and 33 as WBC President, decided to personally call several great champions, being Vitali Klitschko, Larry Holmes, Tommy Hearns, Michael Spinks, Gerry Cooney, Julio Cesar Chavez, Erik Morales, Ruben Olivares, Carlos Zarate, Lupe Pintor, among many others, ALL of whom confirmed without exception, that during their careers they had nothing to do with their being bandaged, and that their managers were exclusively responsible for such action. Based on the previous facts and many more pieces of evidence that will be obtained, the Mexican boxing authorities, in a very respectful and amicable way, will request the California State Athletic Commission to extend the courtesy of sending all the prescriptive documents of the case, to immediately proceed to submit a respectful but firm appeal against the suspension that Antonio Margarito, who is ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT without a doubt, was placed on; Margarito shall be restored his damaged prestige and dignity. The World Boxing Council totally rejects the use of materials that illegally alter the bandaging, turning the fists of a fighter into dangerous weapons, as bandaging was instituted to protect the hands of the fighters, and not to hurt the opponent, as it was used in the roman Circus, centuries before Christ; that is why the WBC does hope that, provided such strange matter that the California State Commission (which we congratulate for their intervention) is accusing Margarito´s camp of having used is confirmed, a serious and strong penalty is placed on the one who is to blame, since these degrading stains can not be accepted in the sport of boxing, as they hurt a lot the integrity of the sport of boxing,,,,,,,,, but never placing such suspension on a fighter, Margarito in this case, as he is absolutely innocent, as all boxers throughout history have been. The fight Margarito vs. Mosley was not sanctioned by the World Boxing Council, but by other organizations, and it could be thought that we are getting into something that is none of our business, but we have been required by the National Federation of Boxing Commissions of the Mexican Republic, also by the Boxing Commission of Tijuana, both affiliated with our organization, as well as by the honorable Mayor of Tijuana, Don Jorge Ramos Hernandez, who we join hoping that this case is addressed within a high-class level with no distinction or discrimination whatsoever, as the World Boxing Council has always solidly been on the fighters´ corner, since its creation 46 years ago. If Luis Resto and many other boxers were treated with justice, why shouldn´t Margarito be treated in the same way?? We hope and demand that a penalty is placed on the guilty one, that must be done, but the fighter, who is the least guilty one, must be totally lifted his suspension, concluded Jose Sulaiman, WBC President. Bob Arum Statement We want to publicly thank the president of the World Boxing Council, Jose Sulaiman, for his forthright and compelling statement regarding the Margarito bandaging situation. President Sulaiman is 100% correct in stating that Margarito should not be punished since he was totally unaware of the improper bandaging. The commission hearing established Margarito's lack of knowledge and innocence. The commission punishment is based on the theory that the boxer is the captain of his team and is responsible for any wrongdoing of his trainer or any of his cornermen. This is not the law. When Roger Mayweather, trainer for Floyd Mayweather, entered the ring improperly during the Mayweather vs. Judah fight, Roger was punished but the Nevada commission quite properly never suggested that Floyd be punished. We in America should respect the law, fundamental legal principles and not be swayed by emotion. The 'message' sent by the California Athletic Commission is the wrong message. The correct 'message' is that a person should only be punished if he or she is guilty of wrongdoing. We hope that Margarito will appeal the unjust revocation of his California boxing license. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Shameful. Regardless of their agenda, the sanctioning bodies should STFU and get in line with this suspension. It is far too serious a matter to conduct "business-as-usual". How about once, just once, the WBC does the RIGHT thing and keeps out of this, wait for Margarito to serve the 1 year, then they can get right back to the $$$$ sanctioning fees? And a final note, to even dare to give utterance to the absurd argument that Marg is innocent, as "all fighters are", is an insult to all people with something between their ears besides air. I have now heard everyone from boxers to trainers to commentators almost down to janitors unanimously declare that there is NO way in hell that a fighter could remain UNAWARE of this sort of thing in the wraps, period. Even dullard Lummox was chuckling at how outrageous the notion of "soy inocente! No lo sabia! Yo nunca sabia nada!" is. Yes Tony, we know you're an idiot. Thanks for again confirming it for us, but even you are not THAT much of an idiot. Cut the bullshit you fucking coward cabron cheater, and for once in your apparently coward-filled career be a man and fucking admit you're a cheat and say you'll do your petty one year suspension. Lord almighty, aren't you supposed to be macho or something? You snivel and lie like a schoolgirl caught copying answers from the kid next to her, fucking hell you're a BOXER for god's sake act like it just once.
Jose Sulaiman has always been Don King's and Bob Arum's whore. I am sure Arum called him and ordered him, "Do something about it, bitch!" and Sulaiman, like the cocksucker puppet he is, came in defense of the undefendable. What else you can expect from the guy who almost stripped Buster Douglas for KTFO Tyson after Don King protested? or the same guy that continually kept Jose Luis Ramirez as number one contender every time he lost a title fight and defended the highway robberies committed twice toward Pernell Whitaker after clearly beating mexican idols Ramirez & Chavez?
