Top Rank, which promotes the pay-per-view HBO championship game, will find a public hearing on Friday if the three people in New York State Athletic Commission, headed by the chairman Melvina Lathan, helps to end Margaritas in New York.
He had already been rejected by the Commission for health reasons on 31 October, but he and Top Rank has requested an audience with the hope of changing the spirit of the commission.
The reason for refusal: Margaritas, has caused serious damage to his right eye last November in a brutal beating by Manny Pacquiao at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. He had a fractured orbital, which was surgically repaired. Then he developed a cataract as a result of the injury, which was subsequently removed from the big eye surgeon Alan Crandall, who has implanted an artificial lens in May.
President of Top Rank, Bob Arum, attended a meeting Wednesday in New York during which the committee heard testimony from two doctors and two from the Commission to support Margarito, including Crandall, who declared that Margarito was healthy enough for box.
The fight for the WBA lightweight media-Cotto will move if the NYSAC dismisses the Margarito, probably in Texas or Mississippi, where it is easier to obtain a license.
Margarita (38-7, 27 KOs) has fought only twice in nearly three years, because it was caught before his fight against Shane Mosley with a hardening agent in his hand wraps. Mosley stopped him in the ninth round of the welterweight championship game in January 2009. Margaritas has since been banned because of the fighting in the U.S. each year.
Margaritas and Cotto had fought in July 2008, before the Mosley fight game, Margaritas, and gave Cotto a serious player, and his first loss in 11-round TKO. Cotto will fight this battle record 36-2 (29 KOs). His other loss came against Pacquiao.
After his suspension, Margaritas, once fought in Mexico by defeating Roberto Garcia in May 2010 before fighting Pacquiao a year ago in Texas.
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