{"id":198589,"date":"2025-10-08T20:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198589\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T20:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T20:15:08","slug":"arturo-gatti-jr-son-of-boxing-legend-dead-at-17-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/198589\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr., Son Of Boxing Legend, Dead At 17 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Arturo Gatti Jr.<br \/>\n                          Found Dead At 17<br \/>\n                          &#8230; Son Of Beloved Boxer<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published October 8, 2025 10:55 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251008_e2bd50ee026c492d9659842c6dc29d13\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:24d6abfd-cf74-46f6-99eb-081285e7149d\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e2bd50ee026c492d9659842c6dc29d13_md.jpg\" alt=\"arturo-gatti-jr-ig-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/arturo-gatti-jr\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arturo Gatti Jr.<\/a> was found dead in his apartment this week at just 17 years old &#8230; in a scene eerily similar to the death of his father, boxing great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/arturo-gatti\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arturo Gatti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chuck-zito\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Zito<\/a>, Gatti&#8217;s former bodyguard (and actor and stuntman), broke the shocking news on social media Wednesday morning &#8230; announcing the teen&#8217;s tragic death.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20251008_527a8f29061a4a738e9750308153bd6f\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:24d6abfd-cf74-46f6-99eb-081285e7149d\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/527a8f29061a4a738e9750308153bd6f_md.jpg\" alt=\"Arturo-Gatti-sub-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s with a heavy heart that I have to say,&#8230;. R.I.P. to 17-year-old ARTURO GATTI JR. who was found hanging in an apartment in Mexico yesterday. The same way they found his Father dead in an apartment in Brazil 16 years ago,&#8221; Zito wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear if foul play is suspected.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, more than 16 years later, there is still mystery surrounding Gatti&#8217;s death &#8230; as many people &#8212; from fans to family and medical experts &#8212; believe he didn&#8217;t take his own life as the official story suggests, but instead was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>      <a id=\"gallery-link-95593aad-5285-42c2-b667-9eaeb44813e4\" class=\"media-link gallery-block__link js-track-link js-click-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2025\/10\/08\/arturo-gatti-father-son-photos\/\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:gallery:95593aad-5285-42c2-b667-9eaeb44813e4\" data-context=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;gallery-block&quot;,&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;}\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:24d6abfd-cf74-46f6-99eb-081285e7149d\" data-gallery-layout=\"carousel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4ff351d8983744c099afbaac7ae8b071_md.jpg\" alt=\"Arturo Gatti Father-Son Photos\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid gallery-block__img-fluid img-aspect-4by3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gatti Jr., born in Montreal in 2008, was following in his famous dad&#8217;s footsteps as a pugilist before his death.<\/p>\n<p>Gatti was beloved in the sport of boxing &#8230; known as a true warrior with a massive heart in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>R.I.P.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat <a href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr. Found Dead At 17 &#8230; Son Of Beloved Boxer Published October 8, 2025 10:55 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,44,85,635,26898],"class_list":["post-198589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}