Auturo Gatti-Mickey Ward, They Deserved Better By Bernie McCoy
The first fight was the best, probably the best of this generation. The return bout wasn't quite as great, it couldn't have been, there's never more than one Taj Mahal. The third fight was the least of the three, but will probably be better than 90% of the boxing matches we'll see in the next five years. When Arturo Gatti and Mickey Ward finished the last round of their ten round segment of thirty rounds of boxing on Saturday night in Atlantic City, they stopped punching for the first time in thirty minutes of ring savagery. They then stood in the middle of the ring, forehead to forehead and muttered words to each other that only they were privy to, words that, in a true sense, only they should have been privy to.
There was no prancing around the ring, no jumping on the ring ropes, Read more [...]