Antonio Margarito and his trainer, Javier Capetillo, had their boxing licenses revoked by the California State Athletic Commission today, meaning they will be suspended for at least one year from boxing. State officials didn’t buy Capetillo’s insistence that it was all his fault, nor did they buy the argument that it was an innocent accidental mistake, and the fighter and trainer will be sitting out for a while because of it.

The suspension means that Margarito and Capetillo are barred from working in the United States for at least one year, as all other jurisdictions honor any others suspensions, when they can apply to be re-licensed.

Margarito would legally be allowed to fight, and Capetillo to train in other countries in the meantime.

The vote to revoke was 7-0.

The Antonio Margarito hand wrap scandal finally got its day in court, as Margarito met with the California State Athletic Commission today in Los Angeles.

The state attorney general got the day started quickly, when he submitted that he thought that Margarito should receive the harshest penalty available to him, which would be a revocation of his boxing license. This penalty would guarantee that Margarito would be out of boxing for at least a year, effectively killing any chance of a rematch with Miguel Cotto, planned for this summer.

When he got a chance to speak, Capetillo fell on the grenade for the team, saying he made a mistake and it was all his fault. That’s mighty nice of him, but his explanation leaves only more questions. According to the LA Times, “Capetillo explained he accidentally pulled the insert from his training bag and placed it in Margarito’s knuckle wraps on Jan. 24, just before Margarito’s fight with Shane Mosley.”

What he apparently didn’t answer was just how you can “accidentally” remove a foreign material from a bag, place it on his knuckle wraps under tape that was likely already in place, and have it remain “an accident.”

Other details that emerged include the naming of the Miguel Cotto fight as a possible instance of this occurring previously. The supervising deputy attorney general that is prosecuting Margarito, said that she believed the illegal wraps were worn for that fight as well, but that claim was dismissed for a lack of relevancy to this particular trial.

State inspector Che Guevara (really? Che Guevara?) said that in his entire time inspecting hand wraps, he’d never seen anything like Margarito’s, lending further proof that this was certainly something out of the ordinary.

This issue will likely follow both Margarito and Capetillo around for the rest of their careers. The only thing that really could have saved their reputations was being completely cleared of any wrongdoing. Not only were they not cleared, but the details that emerged seemed to only make it worse. This was deemed to not be an accident, and while it wasn’t admissible, there were accusations of this not being the first fight that his hands were wrapped this way.

This will affect the way that Margarito’s whole career is viewed. From the vicious knockouts of Kermit Cintron to the second-half rally against Miguel Cotto, leading to a bloody knockout. Add that to the fact that Margarito got pummeled in his first fight with guaranteed “clean” hands, and you have a fighter whose whole career is a question mark.

This story will likely get more interesting, so we’ll just have to wait and see what the next bombshell is in this one.