Arturo Gatti

The Argentinean artist Juan Gatti is generally known as a commercial photographer and graphic designer, often collaborating with film director Pedro Almodovar. His less known work includes anatomy drawings of human body in combination with the taxonomy of plans and of exotic animals. In his images there are wind-blown flowers, dragonflies, birds, and always the dazzling beauty of the human body.Read Full Story

Arturo Gatti was remembered as a big-hearted, star fighter at his funeral Monday, drawing a standing ovation from mourners when his mother received a championship belt from the World Boxing Council.More than 1,000 mourners packed Notre Dame de la Defense church in the heart of Montreal's Italian community to pay respects to the 37-year-old boxer who was found dead July 11 at a Brazilian resort."He had the same personality when he was boxing the ring, and in his life he gave it his all," said...Read Full Story

“How to Live” Dear friends…  Many of you may not know much of boxing, but it’s something I’ve loved for a long time?  Sometimes, just because we know not something; it just can’t void out the importance, the credence involved in it, whatever it may be? This article is a tribute in all honesty, and not just one fighter, who they called “Arturo Gatti, Blood n’ Guts, Thunder Gatti, but all fighters who are unstoppable and like Gatti!  Just saw the movie, “The Fighter” with “Mark Whalberg” who...Read Full Story

A second autopsy in Canada on the late Arturo "Thunder" Gatti found that the Italian-Canadian boxer died by hanging, not strangling, the Montreal-based daily La Presse reported Saturday.Gatti, a former world boxing champion, was found dead July 11 in an apartment he was renting with his family in the northern Brazilian city of Recife. He was 37.Police initially arrested his Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, on suspicion of strangling him with her handbag strap as he slept following a drunken...Read Full Story

A Brazilian judge says Arturo Gatti's wife will remain in jail despite an autopsy report raising doubts about suspicions that she strangled the former boxing champion.The lawyer for the 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues, Gatti's wife, petitioned for her release. Judge Fausto Campos in Recife denied her release request, but said Monday her petition must be examined by a three-judge panel, probably next week.Rodrigues was jailed shortly after Gatti's July 11 death in a seaside resort. She was...Read Full Story

A funeral for former boxing champion Arturo Gatti will be held Monday in his adopted hometown of Montreal.Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with wife Amanda Rodrigues in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas last Saturday. A bloody purse strap was found near his body and police have arrested Rodrigues on suspicion of strangling the former two-division champion.Autopsy results have not been released, but police believe Rodrigues acted alone. She maintains her...Read Full Story

Brazilian police have charged the wife of boxing champ, Arturo Gatti, with her husband’s murder. Amanda Rodrigues apparently strangled her husband with her purse strap while he was sleeping. Amand Rodrigues, 23, was arrested on Sunday after admitting she used the strap of her purse to strangle the former boxing champ in his sleep.. Police had detained Rodrigues as a suspect because of contradictions in her account of her husband’s death when she was questioned. Investigators said she was...Read Full Story

Arturo Thunder Gatti, the 37 year old former boxing champion who fought three epic matches against Mickey Ward, has been found dead in a Porto de Galihnas hotel room.  Gatti had arrived at the resort on Friday with his wife Amanda and 1-year-old son. Very little information has been released about the cause of death or any details surrounding what happened. The only information that has come out is that the body had no bullet or stab wounds, bu there was blood in the hotel room.  Acelino...Read Full Story

Heroic displays of courage are commonplace in professional boxing. Arturo “Thunder” Gatti boxed in some of the most dramatically contested matches of all time, his fights nominated for the Ring Magazine “Fight of the Year” an astonishing six times — and won four times. The most famous of all these fights is the Mickey Ward vs. Arturo Gatti war on May 18th, 2002. To start the ninth round of this eventual Ring Magazine 2002 “Fight of the Year,” Mickey Ward hits Arturo Gatti with a left hook...Read Full Story

By JA Dawson Fightinsight.com In July, I  guess I’m supposed to cry. Please do not confuse me for Langston Hughes or even Kanye West, but I am feeling both poetical and reflexive given the recent sobering events. I hope you all forgive me for not writing a post the day that it was found out that the great Alexis Arguello (82-8, 65 KOs) died. If you know anything about me, you will know that Arguello and his epic first fight with Aaron Pryor left a mark on me. And his recent death, now leaves...Read Full Story