Gatti death ruled a suicide

Brazilian police have ruled boxing great Arturo Gatti’s death was a suicide and have let his 23-year-old wife Amanda Rodrigues, who was suspected of murdering him, walk free. But Gatti’s family back in Montreal isn’t buying it and have requested his body be exhumed and a new autopsy be performed by the Quebec coroner’s office.

Gatti was found dead of apparent strangulation in his hotel room in Recife, in north-eastern Brazil on July 11. Police originally believed Rodrigues had strangled him with the strap of her handbag while he slept and had arrested her, but they later determined he hanged himself.

Gatti was IBF super-featherweight champion in 1995 and WBC light-welterweight champion in 2004. His career spanned 49 fights and he won 40 of them, 31 by knockout. He retired in 2007.