BOXING HERO: Gatti is fondly remembered by ight fans
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TEN years have passed since, following an incident that remains shrouded in mystery, Arturo Gatti, perhaps the most entertaining fighter of his generation, was pronounced dead at the age of 37 while visiting Porto de Galinhas, Brazil with his wife Amanda Rodrigues and their young son, Arturo Jnr.
The then-23-year-old Rodrigues was arrested, having been accused of strangling him with her purse strap while he was drunk and asleep, owing to strangulation marks found on Gatti’s neck and the blood-stained purse strap discovered at the scene of his death.