Antonio Margarito had Eye Surgery

By Ryan Burton : According to Antonio Margarito’s manager Sergio Diaz, Margarito had eye surgery a few weeks sbefore his show down against Shane Mosley. When asked why it couldn’t wait, Diaz said, “he had a problem with his eye and he had to have the surgery to fight. His retina could have become detached if he fought without the surgery.”

Diaz stressed again that he didn’t want to take anything from Mosley. When asked about the growing controversy that Margarito was caught with an illegal hardening substance on his hand wraps before the fight and was forced to put on clean wraps, Diaz said, “It got blown out of proportion. They checked Tony’s hands. He had one hand wrapped and he was wrapping the other. They said his other hand was wrapped too high. Tony didn’t want that to be an issue so he had me cut the wrap off his other hand and he wrapped them both to their satisfaction on the spot.” When informed that some rumors had Margarito getting caught with plaster or another foreign substance in his wraps, Diaz flatly denied it. “No. No way. They were just wrapped too high for their liking.”
 

Also during Margarito’s training two weeks before, MyBoxingFans was at the gym when the “Tijuana TornaDo” hurt his back which a chiropractor was called in for.
 
As much as I like Antonio Margarito, I am not trying to give you excuses as to why he lost but to prove a point. Maybe that’s the reason he didn’t fight like he did against Miguel Cotto. The whole hand wrap issue, assuming he did use some type of plaster, don’t you think it will make your glove a lot heavier? This so called plaster or liquid gel is not going to increase your speed or increase the number of punches you throw, instead it will mean that Margarito would have thrown a lot less punches because of the weight of the gloves. It’s a plaster, not steroids. Other than that, Mosley looked great and he deserves the win.