Video: Antonio Margarito's Camp Made Fun Of Trainer Freddie Roach's Parkinson's Disease
This video begins with the clip of Antonio Margarito, Brandon Rios and trainer Robert Garcia making fun of Freddie Roach’s Parkinson’s disease. Watch it before it gets yanked.
Antonio Margarito takes on Manny Pacquiao on Saturday and there is no lack of bad blood between the fighters’ camps. However, the Margarito camp went too far. In a video that has since been removed, Margarito and Brandon Rios, along with their trainer and ex-fighter Robert Garcia, are seen making fun of Freddie Roach’s Parkinson’s disease. However, the fact that the video has been pulled, edited and pulled again is quickly becoming the story.
The video originally came from AOL FanHouse’s Elie Seckbach, but was removed and then edited. I’m not entirely sure why. FanHouse wasn’t a party to the assholery. They just posted the video of a couple boxers making fun of a guy with Parkinson’s. When the video was put up later today by another user, it was again pulled. This time because of a copywrite claim by Seckbach. Not a good look for FanHouse or Seckbach.
Bad Left Hook – who found the video and the video that replaced the video – and Yahoo!’s Kevin Iole are among those that took Margarito and his buddies to task. (Of course, Margarito’s trainer, Garcia claimed they didn’t know Roach had Parkinson’s. While that’s entirely possible, they had to know that Roach had something.) I’m sure I could go to every other boxing site on the internet and see the same ire towards the Margarito camp, but the consensus is that Pacquiao will pay Margarito back on Saturday by hitting him numerous times with gloves that definitely won’t have plaster inside them.
Yet, now we’re talking about what happened to the video and why Seckbach and FanHouse appear to be trying to protect the Margarito camp.