Arturo Gatti is one of the purest, toughest, old school and true fighting men that ever walked the face of this planet. That said, Floyd Mayweather battered him.
When they fought Floyd Mayweather showed his pure class as a boxer and fighter in a master class annihilation of Gatti inside the distance.
The referee had to stop it off to save Gatti from further brutal injuries.
Not many know before they fought back in 2005 for the WBC 140 pounds title Floyd Mayweather let slip something to ESPN’s Stephen A Smith.
Whom he ran into a night club before the fight.
Stephen A Smith Finally Reveals What Mayweather Told Him Privately Before The Arturo Gatti Fight
Smith told Andre Ward on his show ‘The Art of War’ that Mayweather said before the fight:
“The Eagles were playing in the Super Bowl in Jacksonville against Tom Brady and the Patriots. And I said to Floyd, “We had a nightclub and Floyd in there.” And I said, “Yo, man, that’s the modern-day Rocky (Gatti) right there. Come on, bro. Why you in here?” And Floyd grabbed my arm. Excuse my language. And he said, “Ain’t no motherf****** with six losses going to beat me.”
And he didn’t beat him.
No one did.
Nothing or no one could break or beat Floyd Mayweather, not Gatti or no one in his career.
Floyd Mayweather retired as undefeated as a professional boxer with a perfect record of 50-0 with not a scratch on him.
Not even a scratch.
A pure fighting man Mayweather.
A classic boxer but an art of war merchant in all aspects of professional boxing and fighting.
