R.I.P Arturo Gatti

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R.I.P the real Rocky, Blood and guts warrior personified

[Flojo]

The former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti killed himself and was not murdered, say Brazilian investigators.Mr Gatti was found on 11 July, in a hotel in north-eastern Brazil where he had been staying with his wife and son.Shortly afterwards, his wife, Amanda Rodrigues, was arrested on suspicion of strangling Mr Gatti with the strap from her handbag.A court has now ordered her release after the investigation found that Mr Gatti probably hanged himself.Police at the time had said there were inconsistencies in the statement Ms Rodrigues gave to them and that she had not explained how she stayed in the hotel room for 10 hours after he died.Her lawyer, Celio Avelino, said it "would have been impossible for her to suspend and hang a man of that size".Mr Gatti was IBF super-featherweight champion in 1995 and WBC light-welterweight champion in 2004, and retired in 2007.Gatti's career spanned 49 fights and he won 40 of them, 31 by knockout. He retired two years ago.

Even more f*cked

[Black.]

Yeah he wife killed him and got away with it

[Guest Ian Wright 8]

bait the brazilian feds battried it for a few days then waived the charges

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A press conference will be held on Tuesday in Bergen, NJ to release the voluminous findings of a ten-month investigation into the death of boxing legend Arturo Gatti. Private investigators Paul Ciolino of Chicago and Joseph Moura of Boston have been hired by Gatti’s manager Pat Lynch to investigate Gatti’s death. The three-time world champion Gatti was found dead in his rented vacation apartment in Brazil on July 11, 2009 at the age of 37. Brazilian police arrested Gatti’s wife Amanda Rodrigues, only to release her three weeks later. The Brazilian authorities have ruled Gatti’s death a suicide. A number of medical and scientific expert witnesses from across the country will also make brief presentations which Ciolino and Moura say will conclusively lay to rest the mystery surrounding Gatti’s cause of death.

[Pernell Whitaker]

A press conference will be held on Tuesday in Bergen, NJ to release the voluminous findings of a ten-month investigation into the death of boxing legend Arturo Gatti. Private investigators Paul Ciolino of Chicago and Joseph Moura of Boston have been hired by Gatti’s manager Pat Lynch to investigate Gatti’s death. The three-time world champion Gatti was found dead in his rented vacation apartment in Brazil on July 11, 2009 at the age of 37. Brazilian police arrested Gatti’s wife Amanda Rodrigues, only to release her three weeks later. The Brazilian authorities have ruled Gatti’s death a suicide. A number of medical and scientific expert witnesses from across the country will also make brief presentations which Ciolino and Moura say will conclusively lay to rest the mystery surrounding Gatti’s cause of death.

heh, bergen county.. 3 max b/why dont they just come with the info. its a bit tasteles trying to build suspense etc off the death of a legend.refuse to believe he killed himself.

[JOHN DOE]

refuse to believe he killed himself.

[Fighting Weight]

I assumed he had to have died from erotic asphyxiation

[Niall Ferguson]

murdered swiftly imo

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Investigators examining the death of former boxer Arturo Gatti will announce next week their conclusion that his demise was a homicide and not a suicide, a source with intimate knowledge of the details of the case has informed RingTV.com.Their findings following a nearly 11-month investigation will be revealed at a press conference on Aug. 30 at the Global Boxing Gym in North Bergen, N.J."At the press conference, there will be six experts. They are six of the most preeminent experts in the country who have been involved in homicide investigations," said the source. "Suicide has been ruled out by all of the experts, and the criminal profiler and crime scene expert has absolutely determined that Arturo Gatti's death is not a suicide, and that it's a homicide."The source would not reveal whether investigators have identified a suspect or determined exactly how Gatti was killed.Gatti, 37, was found dead on July 11, 2009 in his hotel room in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas. He was vacationing with his wife, Amanda Rodrigues, who was arrested and charged with his murder but later released.Brazilian police eventually concluded after an autopsy that Gatti hanged himself from a wooden staircase column using a handbag strap.A second autopsy in Canada in 2009 was observed by Michael Baden, former police pathologist and host of the HBO show "Autopsy," at the request of Gatti's family. Baden said coroners didn’t rule out homicide as a cause of death.The refusal of Gatti's manager, Pat Lynch, to believe his friend and former fighter took his own life led him to hire the Chicago-based investigator Paul Ciolino and his partner, Joe Moura."Ciolino even worked on the Amanda Knox case, so this is a guy who has a great reputation," said Lynch, referring to Ciolino's work as a consultant examining the Amanda Knox murder case for CBS’ "48 Hours.""I just can't thank Paul Ciolino and Joe Moura enough for the extensive hours and time and effort that they have put into this investigation, making it their top priority. I can't thank them enough for all that they've done for us. I've said it before that they're a gift from God for us. They really have been."According to the source, Ciolino gathered "two of the biggest names in forensic pathology, an expert in forensic animation, an expert in human movements, a retired FBI agent, a doctor who is an injury and causation medical doctor and an expert in injuries, and a criminal profiler and crime scene expert.""The human movement expert will disprove that it was a suicide, and the pathology experts who reviewed the autopsy that was done in Brazil also determined that this was not a suicide," said the source.The forensic animation expert "has created a detailed animation and examination of the crime scene that we will be playing at the press conference," said the source."He [animation expert] went out and measured the crime scene to the millionth of an inch. He's disproved a lot of the fairy tales that were out there."Gatti, nicknamed "Thunder," was known for his blood-and-guts approach to boxing. He was as fierce and resilient as any fighter.Gatti will forever be remembered for his riveting trilogy with Micky Ward but Lynch said the fighter's biggest victory was over Tracy Harris Patterson in December 1995, which earned him his first of two world titles.Gatti was Atlantic City's biggest draw, often packing Boardwalk Hall, where he lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. by fifth-round knockout in his first big-time pay-per-view bout in in June 2005.

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By James Slater: Just over two years on from the tragic and untimely death of the legendary, hugely respected Arturo Gatti, reports are about to be released that say the 37-year-old warrior was indeed murdered in Brazil in July of 2009.

According to a breaking news piece in Ring.tv.com “a source with intimate knowledge of the details of the case has informed Ring.tv.com that his demise was a homicide and not a suicide.”

The article goes on to say how six experts, who have concluded an 11-month investigation, will reveal their findings at an August 30th press conference in North Bergen, New Jersey. All six experts have ruled out suicide as the cause of death.

As fans know and still mourn, Gatti was found dead on July 11th 2009, when vacationing in Brazil with his wife, Amanda Rodrigues. Initially, Rodrigues was arrested for murder - only to be released shortly afterwards. It was then that the first claims of suicide came out. The theory went that Gatti, depressed, took his own life by strangulation. Immediately, however, those who knew Gatti well vehemently refuted such talk; saying there is no way on earth the never-give-up warrior known as “Thunder” would ever “take the easy way out.”

Now, in light of these further months of investigation, it seems those who knew Gatti well have been proven correct.

According to Ring web site article, it has not yet been revealed if there is a suspect in Gatti’s death, or whether or not it has been determined exactly how Gatti was killed.

Everything is expected to come out at the August 30th press conference.

Hopefully then, Arturo will be able to rest in peace and his millions of fans will be able to remember him as the great fighter he always was.

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