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Entries tagged with "Arturo+Gatti":

• Once Is Not Enough – June 14th, 2011

  
  
  

• No Arturo Gatti Suicide – August 8th, 2011

  
  
  

• Where's the Evidence? – August 9th, 2011

  
  
  

• Arturo Gatti: Life/Career Montage – August 20th, 2011

  It's always a tragedy when a man's death casts a longer shadow than his life, especially when that man was a warrior like Arturo Gatti. The ultimate throwback fighter, a man whose kamikaze ethos defined his do-or-die persona, Gatti was the fighter's fighter, a street brawler in satin shorts who feared nothing and no one. There was nothing fancy about what he did in the ring. When he climbed through the ropes, you always knew Gatti was ready, willing, and able to engage in all-out war. Sometimes he won, and sometimes he lost, but when Gatti fought you knew you were going to see a gladiatorial contest of the first order, you were going to see A FIGHT...
  
  

• Arturo Gatti vs. Gabriel Ruelas – April 7th, 2012

  When Arturo Gatti met Gabriel Ruelas on Oct. 4, 1997, at Caesar's Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, expectations were running high. Gatti was defending the IBF junior lightweight title he won in 1995, and Ruelas was attempting to jumpstart his career after his 1995 fight to the death with Jimmy Garcia. After three rounds, Gatti was slightly ahead on the scorecards. In the fourth both fighters went at it like there was no tomorrow. Ruelas was staggered, then Gatti was staggered worse, but managed to hold on until the bell sounded. But the fifth round was the round that made all the difference, and showed Gatti at his remarkable invincible best…
  
  

• Gatti Civil Suit Proceeds – September 2nd, 2011

  
  
  

• Pacquiao-Marquez on the Hudson – September 6th, 2011

  “If you look back in history at the great trilogies,” said Harold Lederman, “the third fight’s always as good as the first two…”
  
  

• Experts Conclude Gatti Murdered – September 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Arturo Gatti Litigation Update – September 13th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz Post-Fight Analysis – September 19th, 2011

  Ortiz’s inexplicable lack of focus was shocking to watch—but was overshadowed by the incompetence of Joe Cortez, who ultimately lost control of the fight...
  
  

• Holyfield on Mayweather-Ortiz – September 20th, 2011

  
  
  

• Arturo Gatti’s Last Fight – September 23rd, 2011

  “There is a lot to indicate that Arturo Gatti had been suicidal for years and may in fact have taken his own life that night…”
  
  

• Arturo Gatti vs. Micky Ward 1 – April 24th, 2012

  The three fights between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward were as memorable as any trilogy in history. When they first fought on May 18, 2002, at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, Gatti was 34-5 and Ward was 37-11. Although neither man had a perfect record or was a perfect fighter, two tougher fighters, two fighters with more heart, are as hard to find as a four-leaf clover...
  
  

• “El Dinamita” – October 7th, 2011

  A ruthless closer once he had his opponent hurt, Edwin Valero would stalk, stun and close as if he were on the Serengeti…
  
  

• The Case for Arturo Gatti in the Hall – October 19th, 2011

  Gatti had the charisma of Jerry Quarry and the excitement of Bobby Chacon, Matthew Saad Muhammad, and Danny "Little Red" Lopez...
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: One Last Time – November 7th, 2011

  Fighters sometimes smile because they know how fickle life can be, how fickle fans can be, how alone they really are, in the ring and in the universe...
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: A Tapestry of Trilogies – November 8th, 2011

  It had everything. Post-war drama, a rubber match, the Chicago vs. New York big city ingredient, unabashed ethnic pride…
  
  

• Jim Lampley: Boxing’s Vibrant Expressionist – November 16th, 2011

  “The bottom line is that boxing attracts literate observers because the psychological confrontation between two fighters is so compelling—and so identifiable...”
  
  

• Keith Sullivan: A Fighter’s Best Friend – December 15th, 2011

  “It sent a very clear message to commissions everywhere that fighters are human beings, not just pawns for profit, and they cannot be used and abused…”
  
  

• When a Boxing Historian Struggled to Maintain His Interest – January 7th, 2012

  That kind of special "leave it all in the ring" style is now the exception and certainly not the rule...
  
  

• Canadian Boxing—What Resurgence? – January 27th, 2012

  Way up in the rafters, you can hear conversations about Durelle, Chuvalo, the Hiltons, Gatti, Pep, Gray, Melo, and so many others…
  
  

• Ten-Count for Wayne Kelly – February 1st, 2012

  
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 2000-2009 – April 6th, 2012

  It’s about the individual moments, indistinct passages of time where, as we’ll see, two minutes can seem like a second and a second can seem like two minutes…
  
  

• Unmitigated Savagery in the Year 2002 – April 8th, 2012

  On July 23, 2002, Elvir "Kosovo Kid" Muriqi met Sam “Slamming Sammy” Ahmad in New Rochelle, NY on an ESPN televised fight…
  
  

• The Dragon Slayers, Part V: Vernon Forrest – April 24th, 2012

  And so, while Vernon Forrest’s boxing legacy might be debatable, his legacy as a man is not…
  
  

• The Compassionate Corner – April 30th, 2012

  Sometimes a fighter has an unwritten pact with his corner, that if he simply no longer has it—if it all suddenly disappears—he must be saved from himself…
  
  

• A Real Fight: Mayweather vs. Cotto – May 4th, 2012

  It’s sad when a fighter loses his reservoir of skills; it’s justice when he walked on everyone in his path on the way up...
  
  

• Arturo Gatti vs. Wilson Rodriguez – May 11th, 2012

  Thrill-a-minute Arturo Gatti met Wilson Rodriguez on Match 23,1996 at the MSG Theater in New York City. Gatti was defending the IBF super flyweight title he won from Tracy Harris Patterson four months earlier. The champ was 24-1 going in. The well traveled challenger was 44-7-3, but came to the Garden to fight. If you like to see two men trading serious leather in center ring, you ought to like this fight...
  
  

• The Turnaround – May 11th, 2012

  The fight was televised on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, but it was an afternoon show in the spring and many fans missed it…
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…