Death of Arturo Gatti

April 15, 1972 - July 11, 2009
Ipojuca, Pernambuco, Brazil | Age 37

Police eye wife in Boxer's death, rule out nothing
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By BRADLEY BROOKS of The Associated Press

RIO DE JANEIRO — Police investigating the death of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti are working on the assumption his wife strangled him with her purse strap while he drunkenly slept. The woman's lawyer, however, insists she is innocent and was too "fragile" to kill a boxer.

Lead investigator Moises Teixeira told The Associated Press on Monday nothing is being ruled out but he is certain the woman acted by herself.

"It...

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