In February, Antonio Margarito was suspended after being accused of trying to enter the ring against Sugar Shane Mosley with illegal hand wraps. His promoter, Bob Arum, went ballistic. "It's an absolute outrage," fumed Arum, who, of course, can’t make any money off the boxer while he’s suspended. "It's something that I never thought would happen in the United States, where somebody who is totally and completely innocent, has no knowledge what happened, and didn't do anything wrong, gets his license taken away because his trainer allegedly did something wrong. Everybody is blown away." (my italics)
Thursday, the L.A. Times reported that the confiscated hand wraps did indeed contain two primary elements of plaster of Paris; the paper's source was a California Department of Justice senior criminalist who inspected the wrappings.
Arum, so voluble after the suspension, was so quiet when asked for comment on the criminalist’s report.
"I'd have to see it," Arum said.
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