{"id":199077,"date":"2025-10-09T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:47:07","slug":"arturo-gatti-jr-dead-at-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/199077\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr. Dead At 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Arturo Gatti Jr., son of former IBF Super featherweight and WBC Super Lightweight champion, Arturo Gatti, is dead at just 17 years of age. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/boxing\/article\/arturo-gatti-jr-son-of-boxing-legend-arturo-gatti-found-dead-in-mexico-at-age-17-200152729.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD_qmHfvm4Kfy7eVif17poAyuX8p7dNW7alU9PK0X0W5Bcxf5G4LOmnJwO6dljUVF8A71W0GeNpmSMXy3GQW0C_LRPkWFk7iyOE2CHdteVCsVd4jZR7JGyFP32OsbKSqo9eIioq46GVnxmvacTkYO9os56XcuZHggUeZQDH0ljoP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to reports<\/a>, Gatti Jr. died of apparent suicide, which was confirmed by Chuck Zitto \u2014 former bodyguard of Gatti Sr. \u2014 on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s with a heavy heart that I have to say,\u2026. R.I.P. to 17-year-old ARTURO GATTI JR. who was found hanging in an apartment in Mexico yesterday,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPjVH8BgP0H\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zitto posted on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe same way they found his father dead in an apartment in Brazil 16 years ago. My condolences to Arturo Gatti Seniors &#8211; Mom, Sisters, Brothers, and his daughter Sophia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Per reports, Gatti Jr. was in Mexico when his mother where he was found hanged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a truly cruel twist of fate, Gatti Sr. was found dead at the age of 37 in an apartment 16 years ago when Gatti Jr. was just a year old. His death was also initially ruled a suicide via hanging, though further reports suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/6941437\/investigators-convinced-arturo-gatti-was-murdered\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he may have been murdered<\/a>. Gatti\u2019s wife was a suspect in the case and arrested, though she was ultimately released and cleared. Given the parallels surrounds Gatti Sr\u2019s mysterious death makes today\u2019s news that much more heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Of course, Gatti Sr. was known as one of the most exciting boxers ever in large part due to his trilogy with Mickey Ward in the early 2000s. He also faced off against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya, losing to both of the former world champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr., son of former IBF Super featherweight and WBC Super Lightweight champion, Arturo Gatti, is dead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-199077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199077","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=199077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}