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LAS VEGAS – Antonio Margarito’s entire in-ring persona is built around being the guy that most other welterweights have ducked.
He supposedly is so scary in the ring that he has been ducked by everyone from Shane Mosley and Zab Judah to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya.
Not surprisingly, there was plenty of talk about ducking and dodging on Wednesday at the MGM Grand in the final formal news conference to promote Margarito’s challenge of Miguel Cotto on Saturday for the WBA welterweight title.
Promoter Bob Arum went to great lengths to make the point that many of the best welterweights of this era have done the soft shoe to skip past Margarito. He took no less than a half-dozen shots at Mayweather while never mentioning the now-retired pound-for-pound king’s name.
