tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post8951972959551621800..comments2023-09-09T10:21:32.853-04:00Comments on The Hackensack: Arturo "Thunder" Gatti, RIPDaveinHackensackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01313169814904229272noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-69008254740151907462009-07-13T16:41:20.278-04:002009-07-13T16:41:20.278-04:00Another thought on this: I wonder what's going...Another thought on this: I wonder what's going to happen with Gatti's son. A custody case between another NJ resident and the family of his late Brazilian wife has become something of an international incident. In that custody case, the Brazilian wife took their child on vacation to Brazil and never returned. She got remarried in Brazil, and died giving birth to her new mate's child. The American father has been fighting it out in Brazilian courts for years trying to get his son back.DaveinHackensackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313169814904229272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-90058662426773473912009-07-13T16:37:35.032-04:002009-07-13T16:37:35.032-04:00More on this from our local paper, the Record toda...More on this from our local paper, the <a href="http://www.northjersey.com/sports/Friends_Gatti_had_troubled_Marriage.html" rel="nofollow"><i>Record</i></a> today:<br /><br /><i>"According to several sources, Rodrigues repeatedly asked Gatti to wire her $400,000 before he left New Jersey for Brazil, but those sources couldn’t confirm Sunday whether the transfer had been completed.<br /><br />Gatti (40-9, 31 KOs) earned nearly $30 million in purses during a 16-year pro career <br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Gatti, a longtime New Jersey resident, met Rodrigues in 2006 at The Squeeze Lounge in Weehawken, where Rodrigues worked as a go-go dancer. They married in August 2007 in Las Vegas and had their son the following year.<br /><br />Rodrigues signed a prenuptial agreement, but recently had tried to get Gatti to change the terms of his will. They lived together in Marlboro and later Montreal because Rodrigues was not a United States citizen.<br /><br />Montreal police arrested Gatti on April 7 for failing to make a court appearance on an assault charge filed by Rodrigues.<br /><br />“I’ve personally driven him to the emergency room to get stitches from domestic incidents either with his wife or one of his former girlfriends,” said Jersey City’s Mike Skowronski, Gatti’s close friend and assistant trainer for nearly 20 years.<br /><br />“She just didn’t seem like she was with Arturo for the right reasons, from the conversations I did have with her. Him being 37 and her being 23, they didn’t have a whole lot in common.”</i>DaveinHackensackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313169814904229272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-80596929767433494192009-07-13T12:02:18.705-04:002009-07-13T12:02:18.705-04:00A woman scorned was stronger than all his other op...A woman scorned was stronger than all his other opponents.<br /><br />Beware the force of an angry female.H. Clintonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-54917964854786294212009-07-13T00:13:06.941-04:002009-07-13T00:13:06.941-04:00You're welcome, Stan. I saw Castillo-Corrales ...You're welcome, Stan. I saw Castillo-Corrales live too. Phenomenal fight, I'd rank it up there with Ward-Gatti I. I had an issue with the stoppage of Castillo in round 10. It's true, he was getting pummeled at that point but -- unless the rules are different depending on the state -- refs can rule a knockdown if they think a fighter would have gone down had the ropes not held him up. I've seen that happen a few times. Had the ref done that, Castillo would have gotten a 10-count, from which he might have recovered to last out the round. Castillo never complained about it though, so I can't be more Catholic than the pope here. I was glad to see Castillo take out Corrales in the rematch though. <br /><br />That was pretty much it for both of those fighters though. Corrales died young, as you alluded to (in motorcycle crash), and Castillo apparently left it all in the ring in those two fights with Corrales. The next time I saw him fight was when he got stopped by the over-rated, under-powered kid from Manchester. Castillo looked like he mailed it in in that fight. <br /><br />As for fights like Castillo-Corrales or Ward-Gatti being rare, as Spinoza said, "all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare".DaveinHackensackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313169814904229272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-23604965479930393402009-07-12T23:31:23.121-04:002009-07-12T23:31:23.121-04:00Thanks for posting this Dave. Didn't know you ...Thanks for posting this Dave. Didn't know you took requests ;-)<br /><br />More seriously, the YouTube of the round you posted is truly terrific. Here's my personal favorite:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZaiGJgbsw<br /><br />Watched this fight live on a bored Saturday evening, flipping through channels while I waited for my GF to get off work. It's what turned me back into a boxing fan (lapsed since the Tyson era). Shame these great fights are so few and far between, and that the participants end up having such untimely demises... but that's entertainment, I guess :-/Stan Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7126131564610858851.post-55191218215700769172009-07-12T22:52:43.982-04:002009-07-12T22:52:43.982-04:00Update: according to the AP, the police in Brazil ...Update: according to the <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-gatti-death&prov=ap&type=lgns" rel="nofollow">AP</a>, the police in Brazil suspect Gatti's wife killed him and have taken her into custody:<br /><br /><i>SAO PAULO (AP)—Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti and formally accused her Sunday of killing him at a posh seaside tourist resort in Brazil.<br /><br />Police said 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues was taken into custody after contradictions in her interrogation and presented a formal accusation against her. Prosecutors will later decide whether she will be charged.<br /><br />Rodrigues, who denies any involvement in her husband’s death, was the first to find the slain boxer’s body early Saturday inside the vacation apartment they were renting at the Porto de Galinhas resort in northeastern Brazil, police said.<br /><br />The former junior welterweight champion was apparently strangled with the strap of a purse, which was found at the scene with blood stains, said Milena Saraiva, a spokeswoman for the Pernambuco state civil police. She told The Associated Press that the Canadian also sustained a head injury.<br /><br />Police said Rodrigues, a Brazilian, could not explain how she spent nearly 10 hours inside the residence without noticing that Gatti was already dead.</i>DaveinHackensackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01313169814904229272noreply@blogger.com