Hello all, I'm just posting because I'm mulling over seriously pursuing writing a biography of Arturo Gatti. I used to write articles very frequently for this website, and though I stopped doing writing for ESB about three years ago, I've been a sports writer at the University of Washington college newspaper, writing about two dozen articles on boxing. About two years ago I completed 80 pages of a draft on a book on Bobby Chacon but eventually got bored/frustrated/extremely busy and shelved the project. About a week ago I got the idea to write a book about another one of my favorites, and a favorite on this site, Arturo Gatti. Since then I've set up a fairly detailed outline I'd like to follow, while writing two differant chapters, one on the Wilson Rodriguez fight and one on the Gabe Ruelas fight to see if the idea really intrigued me. I think both came off very well and I showed the two chapters to a professor as well as a student colleague and got good reviews considering the chapters were written out of contest. I'll be going to Notre Dame law school in the fall, but in the mean time I'm taking a very minimal course load with 3 easy general education courses to close out my senior year and I feel like I have time to finish a very solid draft over the next twenty weeks. Sorry if this is all very vague but I'm wondering if any of my colleagues on the classic forum have any suggestions or just some encouragement.
sounds like a good idea on the back of the new film about ward. If you dont write gatti's story now somebody else will. There is an awful lot of gatti material, im prety sure it writes itself.
you'd have to go to Montreal and Atlantic city and speak to the people who knew him and probably you'd have to speak some french
Good luck at ND Law-I went to NYC Law.Although from New York City,I currently reside in Toronto and practice law for the past several years with an International Firm. During my tenure here in Toronto,I and a colleague had a number of dealings with Gatti's promoter's regarding distribution of their international broadcast into Canada.Should you be serious about your potential book I could direct you to Gatti's Law firm who represented him and his promoters at some point.:deal
good luck to you mate. Therll be a lot of info as its modern and you should have no problem tracking down people who knew and worked with him. best advise i can give you is to write as close to the truth as possible. Dont let people bully you into writing everything all nice and rosey if it wasnt (believe me people will try and persuede you) and just call everything as it happened. Spend a lot of time on your research before writing it up as you ll end up having to re-write things and post on here how you are doing with it. As I said earlier good luck and ill buy a copy if you succeed mate.
Tough book to market,,, Instead of a book, probably best to do a detailed overview, and get it into a magazine or Sunday Newspaper magazine insert. Of course getting help by HBO to market it would be great, but somebody would want a cut. Now a 30-minute or 60-minute documentary for HBO would be better. Get a good copyright lawyer, before sharing ideas.
Thanks for the advice everyone. The way I see it, Pat Lynch and Buddy McGirt are the two people that a critical to making this book work.
I know people that knew him very well. Pat Lynch, Mario Costa, McGirt, his brother Joe, etc. When he passed, he was given 2 Memorial services in Jersey City. At the one, I gave the Eulogy and I also attended the other one as well.