{"id":200438,"date":"2025-10-09T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:21:13","slug":"arturo-gatti-jr-dead-at-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200438\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr dead at 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Arturo Gatti Jr., the son of the late boxing legend Arturo Gatti, died, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">World Boxing Association<\/a> (WBA) said on Wednesday. He was 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The WBA released a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/boxing-arturo-gatti-100925-3.jpg\" alt=\"Arturo Gatti in May 2007\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Arturo Gatti at the press conference announcing his upcoming fight against Alfonso Gomez on May 22, 2007. (Ed Mulholland\/USA TODAY)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The WBA and the boxing world mourn the passing of Arturo Gatti Jr.,&#8221; the organization wrote on X. &#8220;His journey was just beginning, yet his spirit will live on \u2014 now reunited with his legendary father among the stars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Zito, Gatti Sr.\u2019s former bodyguard, also confirmed the death of the teenager on social media. He wrote on social media that the younger Gatti was &#8220;found hanging in an apartment in Mexico.&#8221; Additional details about the teen\u2019s death were unclear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/boxing-great-ricky-hatton-dead-46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BOXING GREAT RICKY HATTON DEAD AT 46<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gatti Jr. initially sought to follow in the footsteps of his legendary father with an amateur boxing career in hopes of making it to the Olympics, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46534087\/arturo-gatti-jr-son-late-boxing-legend-dies-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">to ESPN<\/a>. He was not even a year old when his father was found dead in a hotel in Brazil in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Gatti\u2019s widow, Amanda Rodrigues, was initially charged with murder in his death. But authorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brazil<\/a> later ruled his death to be by suicide. Rodrigues had the charges dropped.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/boxing-arturo-gatti-100925-2.jpg\" alt=\"Arturo Gatti vs Mickey Ward\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Mickey Ward (white\/red trunks) and Arturo Gatti (white trunks) trade punches during their bout at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on June 7, 2003. (Ed Mulholland\/USA TODAY Sports)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boxer was 40-9 during his career and had epic bouts with Oscar De La Hoya, Mickey Ward and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/floyd-mayweather-files-lawsuit-against-las-vegas-car-dealer-over-alleged-fraud-multimillion-dollar-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Floyd Mayweather Jr.<\/a> He held the IBF junior lightweight and WBC super lightweight titles during his career.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Fox News Digital\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNewsSports_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00a0sports coverage on X<\/a> and subscribe to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! 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