According to the HBO crew, Antonio Margarito was caught with illegal pads in his gloves prior to his bout with Shane Mosley, and was forced to re-wrap his hands three times.

The illegal pad was said to be of the variety that would harden when wet, meaning that as he would sweat, his gloves would become harder.

All we have to go on right now is what Jim Lampley reported, but more details will follow as more information becomes available.

UPDATE: From Yahoo! Boxing’s Kevin Iole:

When the tape on the left hand was cut off at Richardson’s insistence before the bout, something that Golden Boy attorney Stephen Espinoza said was a “plaster-like substance” fell out. Richardson retrieved it and then insisted the protection on the right hand be cut. At that point, another one fell out.

Dean Lohuis, the co-interim executive director of the California State Athletic Commission, said the piece was apparently slipped in underneath the legal tape that was already placed on Margarito’s hands by trainer Javier Capetillo.

Richardson would not surrender the pieces until Mosley’s attorney Judd Burstein arrived in the dressing room. At that point, they were placed in a box, sealed and signed, and given to Lohuis.

“When he put the wrapping on, I asked if I could feel it and when I felt it, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is too hard,’ ” Richardson said. “When the commission flipped the [tape] over, a little block of gauze-like plaster fell out. I said, ‘Unwrap the other hand,’ and they were saying, ‘Oh, oh, the other hand is good.’ I asked the commissioner, ‘What if I unwrap the other hand at the end of the fight and it falls out of there, too?’

“He made them unwrap it. And when they unwrapped the other hand, another one fell out. It was wet with a little plaster on it.”

Richardson could not explain why he didn’t see the piece put on Margarito’s hand in the first place.

As it turned out, however, all that will do is cause Margarito and Capetillo problems with the athletic commission.

Again, expect a lot more about this situation as more information becomes available.