Can Gatti Hack it at the top?

[ELPacman]

Gatti has heart, that's it. His heart can only take him so far until he has to stop from taking a pretty bad beating. I love watching Gatti fight and he's very entertaining though I'd rather see him fighting people at his level that he can put up a better entertaining fight than watching him get beat up badly, especially now where he's seem to become a huge fan favorite after his Micky Ward Triogy and with Micky retired and all, most Micky fan's(if not all) converted to being a Gatti fan. Let Gatti leave the sport with a **** rather than a bad beating. He's given to boxing enough already with the trilogy.

[Floydmayweather]

Mayweather is to fast, to slick, and to hard to hit for gatti. Gattis only chance is to knockout floyd and i dont see him trading with Gatti so that sees near imposible. He will hurt him really bad and then eventually knock him out. Mayweather in 8.

[Kimmy]

I feel strongly that "sorry ass Mayweather" is a comment made by only the truly ******. If this comment is from you, please leave this site!
Mayweather will do unspeakable things to Arturo Gatti, believe. It is probably the worst fight at 140lbs for him because of the stick and move style of mayweather.
Tsyzu is older, slower and can be hurt. Much better option for Gatti. I pick Tsyzu over gatti but if Gatti is gonna pull off the shocking win i think Tsyzu is the likely loser, not Mayweather!

[Knicksman20]

I would hardly call Gatti's loss to Robinson as being outboxed, his first fight with Robinson was a close SD loss and fight of the year.
Been waiting for Gatti to burn out a few fights ago, though he still seems to entertain and defeat some good fighters.

Then what would you call it? He was outbox boxed twice. Ivan Robinson is no puncher so he had to box Gatti. The same Gatti who was out boxed by Angel Manfredy then KO'ed.

[Pagan]

Gatti is probably my favorite fighter for alot of reasons.

That being said, I don't think he could beat Mayweather, Tszyu, or Sharba Mitchell. He is too basic. If he were to fight Cotto, it would be an awesome war, but Gatti would probably end up getting pounded on badly and lose.

Gatti should stick to guys at his level if he wants to win consistently.
Mayweather would probably not be able to stop him, but would win a convincing dec. Styles make matches, and Mayweather/Gatti doesn't sound like that great of a fight to me.

The 1st Robinson fight was actually very close, but the second one, Gatti lost pretty much every round. Robinson outboxed and outpunched him.

Right now, the best big-namers for him to fight would be Tszyu or Cotto.
Even though he'd lose both, they would be great fan-pleasers.

[cmason]

i would compare gatti to an english middleweight of the 80's and 90's called nigel benn. now no-one was going to say he was the best in the world, but when you went to see him you always got value for money and he was good enough to beat guys like doug dewitt and gerald mclellan. same with gatti, i suspect a vast majority here have loved watching him over the years, but he is'nt the best in the world and guys like tzsyu and mayweather will always be too good for him, but he's no bum and has alot of skill, and of course heart and guts by the truckload.

[pinkpanther]

I think you do rather a diservice to Nigel Benn there I have to say, I understand the point you are trying to make in terms of lack of technical boxing ability at the very highest level but Benn had a bigger heart, tougher chin and more pop in either hand than Gatti, hence he was at the top of his division and did mix it with the best. You certainly do a diservice to G-Man with your "guys like" comment, he was one of the best boxers pound for pound in the world coming into the fight with Benn.

Gatti has the ability at 140 to go 12 with the likes of Mayweather and Mitchell because they don't really ****, he would struggle against Tyzsu, Hatton and Cotto. Below them Gatti is probably on a level with Harris and could beat the likes of Chop Chop and Leija, Spad etc.

[Truth]

If Gatti fights Floyd he is done, to much skill for Gatti. Much respect for Gatti though, what an exciting career he has had.

[bpapa420]

Gatti looks real good as of late. I think he would have a better shot at kostya then mayweather though.

[Mr. Ryan]

Gatti look real good as of late. I think he would have a better shot at kostya then mayweather though.

As long as he doesn't get hit, he should be OK. Look, I'm a Gatti fan, but he really hasn't ever shown that he's any different from Matthew Saad Muhammad. An exciting fighter who has a ton of heart and power, but for whatever reason can't beat the elite fighters.