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Antonio Margarito (born March 18, 1978) is a
Boxing|boxer from Tijuana, Mexico. Margarito is
the WBO's world Welterweight champion.

On January 14, 1994, he beat Jose Trujillo in
Tijuana by decision in four rounds, to make his
professional debut.On April 25, he achieved his
first knockout win, defeating Victor Angulo in the
second round. On October 17, however, he suffered
his first defeat, to Victor Lozoya, by decision in
six. Over the course of his next six bouts, he
lost two. However, he went onto a winning streak
after that loss that has so far, reached twenty
wins in a row, not including his fight with Daniel
Santos (boxer)|Daniel Santos, which ended in a No
contest (boxing)|no contest. Before getting to
fight with Santos, he beat such fighters as Alfred
Ankamah, Juan Soberanes and former Julio Cesar
Chavez rivals Buck Smith, David Kamau and Frankie
Randall, a former World Jr. welterweight champion
who became the first man to beat Chavez in 91
fights.

On July 21, 2001, he received his first world
title try, against Santos, for the WBO world
Welterweight crown, at Bayamon, Puerto Rico's
Ruben Rodriguez Coliseum. The fight had to be
stopped in the first round as a consequence of a
clash of heads that opened deep gashes on both
fighters and sent them both to a nearby hospital.
Because the fight had not gone over the
reglamentary four rounds or more for a technical
decision to be awarded, it was declared a no
contest, and Santos retained the belt but without
adding a loss to Margarito's record. 

Santos then vacated the WBO world Welterweight
title to pursue the WBO's world Jr. Middleweight
championship, and Margarito was assigned to fight
Antonio Diaz for the vacant world crown, in front
of an HBO Boxing audience. On March 16, 2002,
Margarito crowned himself world champion by
beating Diaz by knockout in round ten. He defended
that crown with a decision in twelve over Danny
Perez and a knockout in two over former world
champion Andrew Lewis.

Margarito has decided to go up in weight, to try
to lure Fernando Vargas, Oscar De La Hoya or Shane
Mosley into a fight, or Santos into a rematch at
the Jr. Middleweight division. He is still also
actively looking for an unification bout with
World Boxing Council|WBC and World Boxing
Association|WBA world champion Ricardo Mayorga. On
October 17, 2003, Margarito made his Jr.
Middleweight division debut with a two round
knockout win over Maurice Brantley in Phoenix,
Arizona.

On January 31, 2004, and back at the Welterweight
division, he retained his title with a second
round knockout of Canada's Hercules Kyvelos, who
was undefeated until then.

Margarito faced Daniel Santos in a rematch on
September 11 of the same year, at the Jose Miguel
Agrelot coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico|San
Juan, for Santos' WBO world Jr. Middleweight
title. The rematch also ended because of a
headbutt, but this time, as the fight had already
reached the  four rounds mark that is needed for
fights like these to be decided by judges,
Margarito lost by a split ten round Technical
decision|technical decision. 

On his next fight, April 23 of 2005, Margarito
retained his WBO world Welterweight title against
another Puerto Rican, Kermit Cintron, dropping him
four times on his way to a fifth round knockout as
part of a ESPN Pay Per View card that also
included a Shane Mosley victory.

Margarito has a record of 31 wins, 4 losses and 1
no contest, with 22 wins by knockout.