1. Arturo Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007.
38 Facts About Arturo Gatti
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Arturo Gatti participated in The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year a total of four times.
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Arturo Gatti is the young brother of ex-professional boxer Joe Gatti.
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Arturo Gatti eventually relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey, as a teenager where he found a manager he trusted and decided to turn pro.
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Arturo Gatti returned to Montreal after retiring from boxing to work in real estate.
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Arturo Gatti's Brazilian wife was arrested for his homicide, then released after an autopsy done in Brazil ruled his death was a suicide.
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Arturo Gatti was a member of the Canadian National team, and was training to represent Canada at the 1992 Summer Games, but in 1991, at age 19, he decided to turn pro instead.
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Arturo Gatti began boxing professionally on the night of June 10,1991, with a third-round knockout of Jose Gonzalez in Secaucus, New Jersey.
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Arturo Gatti went undefeated for six bouts before losing to King Solomon by split decision in six rounds on November 17,1992.
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Arturo Gatti's next fight, on March 24,1993, was his first fight abroad, where he visited Amsterdam, Netherlands and knocked out Plawen Goutchev in round one.
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Arturo Gatti retained the title against Richard Salazar and former world champion Jose Sanabria.
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On December 15,1995, Arturo Gatti challenged the IBF super featherweight Champion Tracy Harris Patterson, Floyd Patterson's adoptive son.
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Arturo Gatti became world champion when he outpointed Patterson and signed a multi-fight deal with HBO to fight on HBO Boxing.
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Arturo Gatti only had two fights in 1996, once defending his world title.
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Arturo Gatti then scored a technical knockout over former world champion Calvin Grove in the seventh round of a non-title affair.
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Arturo Gatti lost by a technical knockout in round eight to Angel Manfredy, and then lost a pair of close 10-round decisions to Ivan Robinson, the first by split decision, the second by unanimous.
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Arturo Gatti only had one fight in 1999, knocking out Reyes Munoz in round one.
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Arturo Gatti was accused by Gamache's handlers of not having actually made the contracted weight of 141 pounds.
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Arturo Gatti won his two other fights that year, against Eric Jukabuwski and Joe Hutchinson.
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In 2001, Arturo Gatti only had one fight, going up in weight to meet welterweight Oscar De La Hoya, who beat him by a technical knockout in five rounds.
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In 2002, Arturo Gatti returned to the light welterweight division and defeated former world champion Terronn Millett by a knockout in round four.
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Arturo Gatti broke his twice-repaired right hand when he struck Ward's hip bone with an attempted body shot in the fourth, and he dropped his arm.
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On January 24,2004, Arturo Gatti, having recovered from a broken hand, scored a tenth round knock-down and defeated Gianluca Branco of Italy by a 12-round unanimous decision to win the vacant WBC light welterweight title.
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Arturo Gatti took a horrific beating and Gatti's corner man threw in the towel after he was beaten around the ring, thus ending his title reign via sixth-round technical knockout.
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Arturo Gatti beat Thomas Damgaard on January 28,2006, by an eleventh-round technical knockout to win the vacant IBA welterweight title and become a champion in 3 different weight divisions.
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Arturo Gatti then broke off his relationship with Buddy McGirt and had a new trainer in Micky Ward.
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Arturo Gatti attempted a comeback on July 14,2007, against Alfonso Gomez, only to get TKO'd by Gomez.
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Arturo Gatti retired with a record of 40 wins and 9 losses, with 31 wins by knockout.
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On September 24,2008, reports had surfaced that Arturo Gatti was considering a comeback against Montreal welterweight Antonin Decarie, the Canadian and North American Boxing Organization champion.
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Arturo Gatti was an aggressive, all-action fighter, often remembered as a slugger.
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Early on in his career, Arturo Gatti showed his tremendous punching power as he amassed a large number of first-round knockouts.
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Arturo Gatti had incredible heart, and a very good chin, shown in the majority of his major fights.
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Oscar De La Hoya, who faced many big punchers from 130 pounds to 160 pounds, says Arturo Gatti hit him the hardest out of any fighter.
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On July 11,2009, Arturo Gatti was found dead in a hotel in Ipojuca, Pernambuco, Brazil, where he was on holiday with his Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, and their 10-month-old son.
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Arturo Gatti's wife was initially charged with murder after Brazilian authorities ruled Arturo Gatti's death a homicide, but after the coroner's autopsy report was released, they declared it was a suicide by hanging, and charges against his widow were dropped.
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Arturo Gatti had a history of suicidal threats and had previously attempted suicide in 2006.
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Arturo Gatti's family confirmed that there would be a second autopsy done in Quebec.
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CBC's The Fifth Estate and HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel both interviewed witnesses who stated Arturo Gatti assaulted his wife in public the night before his death, and that the injuries to the back of his head came as result of Arturo Gatti fighting with a passer-by who attempted to intervene.