Could someone like Arturo Gatti have privledged from "Catch weight" fights?

In the later stages of Gatti careers he is what many would have deemed as a "man without a weight class"

He couldn't make 140 and was too small for 147. Could Gatti have benefited from some great fights while not disadvantaging himself by taking some fights at maybe 142 or 143 instead? And if so what fights could realistically have been made? I do think Gatti had something left after the Mayweather fight, he just was too small for 147. But could he have been successful at 143 or such against some of the names of back then and who could he have been successful against?


I thought about this when I thought about his post fight interview after the Gomez fight where he was saying he can't make 140 and was too small for 147 and thus was a man without a weight class and would retire.

Do you guys think that Gatti after the Mayweather fight could have been successful in catch weight fights had he not have had to go to 147?

I'm not up to wondering about what Gatti could have done or not done.

Too soon.

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Originally Posted by Majesty

In the later stages of Gatti careers he is what many would have deemed as a "man without a weight class"

He couldn't make 140 and was too small for 147. Could Gatti have benefited from some great fights while not disadvantaging himself by taking some fights at maybe 142 or 143 instead? And if so what fights could realistically have been made? I do think Gatti had something left after the Mayweather fight, he just was too small for 147. But could he have been successful at 143 or such against some of the names of back then and who could he have been successful against?


I thought about this when I thought about his post fight interview after the Gomez fight where he was saying he can't make 140 and was too small for 147 and thus was a man without a weight class and would retire.

Do you guys think that Gatti after the Mayweather fight could have been successful in catch weight fights had he not have had to go to 147?

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To me the "man without the weightclass" was just his own way of getting over the fact he was finished. He had taken too much punishment and it finally caught upto him. For me he was finished after the Mayweather fight. H e took far too punishment in that fight alone but credit to him he kept going, once again showing his trmendous heart!

Gatti was the man without a weight class because he had limited physical skills. The weight classes are not THAT far apart. If you cant compete in one or the other I think you need to sit down and think about where you are.