Name: Arturo "Thunder" Gatti
IBF Super Featherweight Champion -- 1995 Dec 15 – 1998 Mar 13
- WBC Light Welterweight Champion --2004 Jan 24 – 2005 Jun 25.
- Defeated Richard Salazar (TKO 10).
- Defeated Tracy Harris Patterson (W 12) & (W 12).
- Defeated Wilson Rodriquez (KO 6).
- Defeated Calvin Grove (TKO 7).
- Defeated Gabriel Ruelas (TKO 5).
- Defeated Micky Ward (W 10) & (W 10).
- Defeated Leonard Dorin (KO 2).
- Defeated Thomas Dangaard (TKO 11).
- Four-Time Ring Magazine Fight of the Year: 1997 (W KO5 Gabriel Ruelas), 1998 (L 10 Ivan Robinson), 2002 (L 10 Micky Ward), 2003 (W 10 Micky Ward).
- Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year: 1997 (W KO5 Gabriel Ruelas).
- Ring Magazine Upset of the Year: 1998 (L 10 Ivan Robinson).
- Named The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year fighter for 2002.
- won 40 (KO 31) + lost 9 (KO 5) + drawn 0 = 49
rounds boxed 253 : KO% 63.27
- http://www.arturogatti.com/main/
Favorite Book: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
""Old Man And The Sea" by Hemingway. Lou Duva bought me that book." [Laughs] "That’s the only book I read. I finished it. Yeah, it was good."
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