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Arturo Gatti will always live large in my memories. He had the biggest heart I've ever seen in any man. The true definition of never giving up and actually being able to turn a fight around. I pray he rest's in peace and finds happiness in the after life.
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RIP to Boxing's True Warrior.Comment
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I still can't stop thinking about it. In tears.Comment
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In past couple weeks there have been so many celebrity deaths, I joke with my friends who would be next. Names liek Amy Winehouse come up, but not in a million yars would I have precited Gatti. RIP, your insiring legacy in the ring will never be forgot.Comment
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Saw this thread unfold from the start yesterday but didn't want to post, in hope that it might turn out to be a mistake on somebody's part.
I co-sign all the shock. But after seeing this thread start last night, I called a friend who knows about Gatti and said "I just read that Arturo Gatti is dead". After a brief pause came the reply "are you really surprised?" He had a point.
A character like Gatti deserves to be remembered fondly by all fans of boxing.
Whatever went on in his private life, he appeared fan-friendly and convivial in the PR side of his sporting life and never short-changed anyone in the ring. And if you can forgive short-changing fans in any sport, it's easily boxing.
I was thinking that if you were building the perfect boxer, a heart the size of Gatti's would have to be one of the elements. Then I wondered if too much heart is a flaw, and maybe it is. But Gatti's flaws were a big part of what made him a special fighter, so perfection be damned.
If his body of work doesn't make him an ATG or even a HOFer, it definitely makes him a Legend.
Legends don't die.
Godbless, "Thunder".
Be at peace, but never "rest". Roll and roar on in the thereafter.
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That reel just gave me chills.. you will be missed gattiComment
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RIP Arturo you will always live in our HeartsComment
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