If Gatti gets the title shot against Baldomir....

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entertainers get the money and the fame and the title shots. he was jus an entertainer

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First of all, Gatti is NOT the biggest box office draw since Mike Tyson. Where do y'all get this stuff??

How many PPV fights has Gatti had? What has been Gatti's biggest purse? As Zab "Stupor" Judah would say: "Get your mind right."

I can name you a STRING of fighters who have sold more than Gatti. Ever heard of Oscar? Trinidad? etc.

right now, floyd is involved in much bigger purses than gatti

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No he is not

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entertainers get the money and the fame and the title shots. he was jus an entertainer

THREE-TIME … WHAT?
I-B-MAD AT THE MEDIA!

By William Dettloff

I was enjoying Arturo Gatti’s win over tough but feather-fisted Thomas Damgaard well enough on Saturday night right up until the end. After all, it met the quota, if just barely, of fiery exchanges that are part of any Gatti soap opera. It also had the inevitable Gatti injury, this one to his right hand, again. It had the thousands of screaming Gatti maniacs that fill up the Atlantic City bars whenever he fights on the boardwalk. You’ve never seen so much hair gel.

If I had any complaint midway through, it involved how everyone was gushing over the fact that Gatti was fighting with an obviously injured right hand. Yeah. We get it already: He’s a warrior. We’ve heard. Fighting with that injury is what most any world-class fighter will do, but whatever. That’s a column for another time.

I stopped enjoying the show when Michael Buffer announced that the win made Gatti a three-time world champion. Or a three-division champion. It doesn’t matter which. The Damgaard fight was for something called the vacant IBA welterweight title. I’ll repeat that: the IBA welterweight title. Sigh …

Now, I’ve got nothing against Gatti. I like the guy from what I know of him. I admire him. He’s done a hell of a lot for the sport. And I’ve got nothing against his team, who all seem to look out for the guy. They seem like a family—a good family too, not one of those crazy, messed up, psychotic families like the rest of us have. But folks, Arturo Gatti is no three-time champion or three-division champion, or any other kind of champion today, and if you think otherwise, have said otherwise, or have written otherwise, you are part of the problem with this sport.

Gatti held the IBF junior lightweight title almost 10 years ago. End of story. When he beat Gianluca Branco in 2004, the WBC said he was the junior welterweight champion. It was a lie; Kostya Tszyu was the champion. We all knew it. But that was the way they kept introducing him, and the WBC kept getting their extortion money—known in polite circles as “sanctioning fees”—and eventually people forget that it was all made up and you wonder why none of your friends watch the fights anymore. The IBA? Come on.

This is one of hundreds of examples of how the organizations make a mockery of this business. I’ll bet you can name a couple dozen more without even trying. They’re all the same—WBA, WBC, IBA, IBO, WBO, IBF. And there are more on the way, you better believe. They’re all garbage, every one of them, and everyone reading this column knows it. Some of you know it better than others; maybe you write boxing for a Web site or a newspaper. Maybe both. If that’s you and you hate what the sanctioning bodies have done to this sport, you have an alternative—you know what it is: The Ring championship policy.

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No he is not

Arturo Gatti made 3.5 mil guaranteed and Floyd made 3.1 mil guaranteed for their fight. That was the biggest purse of both their careers to that point.

Floyd then made nearly four million to fight Sharmba and is getting five million base, plus a cut of PPV for the Zab fight.

So, YES, Floyd is currently making bigger purses than Gatti.

Gatti's regular purse is between 1 and 2 million.

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No he is not

By the way, with regards to Gatti's money. Floyd made the biggest payday of his career with Gatti. True. BUT, Gatti also made HIS career high with Floyd. It was a two-way relationship.

Gatti got the big paycheck that he wanted.

Floyd got the big paycheck that he wanted, but also much more: He got the "Oh ****! Who is this guy?" visibility that has set up his future dates.

Gatti's purses:

Mayweather- $3.5 mil guaranteed
Leija - $2.1 mil
Dorin- $1.8 mil
Branco - $930, 000

Floyd's purses:

Gatti - $3.1 mil guaranteed
Sharmba - $3.2 mil
Judah - $5 mil guaranteed + cut of PPV

Both got what they wanted out of that fight. Gatti just paid a STEEP price for it.

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anyone think he's going to make it to the hall?

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He sure will.