{"id":48071,"date":"2025-10-10T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arturo-gatti-jr-son-of-the-legendary-boxer-dies-at-17-years-old-5\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:55:27","slug":"arturo-gatti-jr-son-of-the-legendary-boxer-dies-at-17-years-old-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/arturo-gatti-jr-son-of-the-legendary-boxer-dies-at-17-years-old-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Arturo Gatti Jr., son of the legendary boxer, dies at 17 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arturo Gatti Jr., Son of Boxing Icon, Passes Away<\/h2>\n\nThe World Boxing Association (WBA) confirmed this Wednesday the death of Arturo Gatti Jr., son of the legendary boxer and Hall of Fame member, Arturo Gatti, at the age of 17.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The WBA and the boxing world mourn the loss of Arturo Gatti Jr. His path was just beginning, but his spirit will live forever, now reunited with his legendary father among the stars.<\/p><cite>WBA Statement<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nReports of the young man&#8217;s death began circulating on social media and were confirmed by Chuck Zito, former bodyguard of Gatti Sr.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chuck Zito&#8217;s Instagram Message<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nMoe Latif, Gatti Jr.&#8217;s coach, also confirmed the news through a social media post.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/...\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Story of Moe Latif<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1008%2Fr1557676_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Arturo Gatti Jr.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Arturo Gatti Jr., quien falleci\u00f3 a los 17 a\u00f1os, buscaba seguir los pasos de su padre como boxeador amateur con la esperanza de competir en los Juegos Ol\u00edmpicos antes de convertirse en profesional.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nDAZN Boxing expressed its &#8220;deep sadness&#8221; at the news of Gatti Jr.&#8217;s passing.\n\nGatti Jr. was found dead in Mexico, where he resided with his mother and Gatti&#8217;s widow, Amanda Rodrigues. Additional details about his death have not yet been revealed.\n\nGatti Jr. aspired to emulate his father in amateur boxing, with the goal of participating in the Olympics before turning professional. He was 10 months old when Gatti Sr., 37 years old, was found dead in mysterious circumstances in a hotel in Brazil in July 2009.\n\nThe WBC president, Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n, also regretted the death of Gatti Jr.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The World Boxing Council and the global community of our sport join in prayer for the profound loss of Arturo Gatti Jr. at the age of 17. May God rest his soul and help his family find peace.<\/p><cite>Mauricio Sulaim\u00e1n, WBC President<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arturo Gatti Jr., Son of Boxing Icon, Passes Away The World Boxing Association (WBA) confirmed this Wednesday the death of Arturo Gatti Jr., son of the legendary boxer and Hall of Fame member, Arturo Gatti, at the age of 17. The WBA and the boxing world mourn the loss of Arturo Gatti Jr. His path [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[9609,205,708,5123],"class_list":{"0":"post-48071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-arturo-gatti-jr","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-death","11":"tag-wba"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}