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07-12-2009, 06:28 PM
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'Strangled with a handbag strap': boxing champ Gatti's wife arrested
Arjun Ramachandran
July 13, 2009 - 8:11AM
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Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti's wife has been arrested over his death in a Brazilian hotel room, with police saying he may have been strangled with a handbag strap.
The body of Gatti, 37, was discovered on Saturday in a hotel room at the posh Porto de Galinhas holiday resort in north-eastern Brazil.
The Canadian had arrived there on Friday with his Brazilian wife Amanda Rodrigues and their one-year-old son.
Brazilian police said they had taken 23-year-old Rodrigues into custody yesterday after contradictions in her statement to police.
According to the BBC, police were also unsure how Rodrigues had apparently stayed in the apartment for 10 hours without noticing her husband was dead.
Police were also investigating reports the couple were arguing before returning to their hotel room on Friday evening and that Gatti had been drunk, the BBC said.
A police spokeswoman said Gatti had apparently been strangled with the strap of a handbag, which was found among blood stains in the hotel room.
Gatti also had a head injury, she said.
Gatti's career spanned 49 fights and he won 40 of them, 31 by knockout.
He lost to big names like Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Carlos Baldomir, but it was his three-fight series against Micky Ward that left an indelible impression on fight fans.
The first time they met, in May 2002, the pair traded devastating blows for 10 rounds before leaving it up to the judges to decide Ward as the winner.
"I'm walking around in a daze. I'm just dazed by it all," Ward told The Ring magazine.
"You fight a guy, you go to war with them, and there is a respect there. But with me and Arturo, it was greater.
"There was a real bond between us. It's why hearing this, hearing what happened to Arturo is like a piece of you is gone, because we shared so much of everything in the ring. We were friends, close friends."
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07-12-2009, 08:02 PM
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07-12-2009, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese  That's wild! | I don't follow boxing closely, but those that do tell me he was a hell of a fighter.
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07-13-2009, 06:47 AM
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07-13-2009, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil Smith Looks like his wife was better. | We can never win, it's genetically encoded
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07-13-2009, 12:12 PM
| | | Damn didn't know Gatti died  his boxing fights are memorable.
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