It's a Dirty Game

Ok, so let's touch on the dirty business. From loaded gloves to underhanded promoters, the fight business can be a difficult thing to navigate. Let's take recent events into view first. After the fight with Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito was busted in his next fight with Shane Moseley. Every excuse in the book was made by he and his training staff to discount the matter. The fact is that he could have seriously injured and or killed his opponent by having loaded wraps. When Cotto caught wind of this, he and just about everyone else were convinced that those same loaded wraps had been used on him in the fight prior and I would be inclined to agree. I mean the punches he hit Cotto with in the first fight seemed to do more damage then any regular punch i've seen, and i've seen thousands. It left him battered beyond belief. Let's fast forward to the rematch last weekend. The punches Margarito hit Cotto with this time hardly phased the champ and he ended up stopping Margarito in the 8th by TKO. I don't know for sure if Margarito did the unthinkable in the first fight but this is surely the payback that was required regardless.
Next, let's get into the promoters, from Don King to Bob Arum, the unsavory taste is in the air and hard to deny. He admitted to bribing the International Boxing Federation president to receive a more favorable ranking for one of his fighters. He was also fined by the Nevada State Atheletic Comission for a bribe to get one of his fighters sanctioned. One word to describe these actions...hmmmm... DIRTY! In connection to the Margarito incident, oh yeah, he's promoted by Arums company. It's all "racially motivated". The suspension given to your Mexican fighter for getting caught trying to use loaded handwraps in California(of all places) where he was set to fight a black guy was somehow racially motivated. This statement shows a serious lack of ethical and logical thinking. There's just no telling who's on the up and up these days. So if you got good friends that are close to you, keep it that way cause new ones may not be friends at all. Beware of the dirt, once it gets on your hands, its hard to get clean again. I know of people in the industry that won't even shake hands with promoters. I would say something about Don King but I wouldn't want to end up like 2 other people that crossed paths with him. Wikipedia it...