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How can you mend a broken Arturo?
It may not be the exact question posed by The Bee Gees, but the answer is essential to the prospects of Arturo Gatti’s career “Stayin’ Alive.”
Gatti could have opted for retirement after last June, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. embarrassed him through six rounds of a one-sided slaughter. As his trainer, Buddy McGirt, cradled the swollen, beaten Gatti in his arms, and told a longtime warrior that the fight was over, the cameras captured an upset, broken man.
Television had been in love with Gatti, and by extension so, too, were the fans, who saw a man give his all, take ample punishment and then claw back, digging deeper into his reserve of heart and triumphing with explosive hooks, a never-quit attitude and a boundless amount of fortitude. He had numerous comebacks in fights, as well as multiple resurrections of his career.
So how would Gatti come back from the drubbing that Mayweather handed him? Could he? [details]
It may not be the exact question posed by The Bee Gees, but the answer is essential to the prospects of Arturo Gatti’s career “Stayin’ Alive.”
Gatti could have opted for retirement after last June, when Floyd Mayweather Jr. embarrassed him through six rounds of a one-sided slaughter. As his trainer, Buddy McGirt, cradled the swollen, beaten Gatti in his arms, and told a longtime warrior that the fight was over, the cameras captured an upset, broken man.
Television had been in love with Gatti, and by extension so, too, were the fans, who saw a man give his all, take ample punishment and then claw back, digging deeper into his reserve of heart and triumphing with explosive hooks, a never-quit attitude and a boundless amount of fortitude. He had numerous comebacks in fights, as well as multiple resurrections of his career.
So how would Gatti come back from the drubbing that Mayweather handed him? Could he? [details]