Quote Originally Posted by CutMeMick View Post
So amongst all the madness of JMM devastating KO win over Pac this Sat night.

Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was elected to enter the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

For me personally I don't think being a TV draw, blood & guts warrior merits induction.
What is your opinion on this? Does he belong in the hall?

Others who will be getting in are Virgil Hill & Myung-Woo Yuh.
It takes all kinds, Gatti was not my favorite fighter to watch but you don't find that depth of heart in every fighter.
Watching Gatti fight, especially when he was getting his ass kicked, was hard to do but I still went away thinking I'd be happy with a tenth of the heart he had.
He was special because he had so much of the one thing every fighter needs that his shortcomings in other areas didn't matter most of the time.
I think they called it right.