Slugfest Galore: Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini vs. Arturo "Thunder" Gatti

Mancini at his best stood toe to toe with Arguello for 14 rounds. I don't think that Gatti can do that. Mancini's just too strong for Gatti and knocks him out in the mid-rounds.

 

Ray wins by KO, More durable, better technical skills, and more power, close fight but Mancini would find a way to win..

 

Mancini would completely wreck Gatti. Too strong, too powerful, and too skilled. Gatti would get KO'd in about 5 or 6.

 

You're exactly right. Leaving aside long winded explainations of Ray's career, the Arguello fight was one of his very best, and most technically sound, performances. Arguello is my favorite fighter of all time, and I was holdng my freaking breath far a good part of that fight. For awhile it looked like this punk kid from Youngstown was about to de-throne a living legend! That version of Boom Boom against Gatti at his best would not be a war. Ray would box Gatti's ears off for a few round and then knock his ass out through the accumulation of punishment.

Boo

 

what a ****ing brutal fight.

 

I have more talent than Arturo Gatti, but no boxer made the most out of so little.

 

Nonsense.

Gatti's talent wasn't too poor. He had athleticism. He had good hand and footspeed and a strong set of legs. His coordination wasn't bad as well.

Given the fact that he would go 10 hard rounds with having trained on booze and women, his natural stamina must've been pretty good as well.

Gatti may have made more money and been more popular than most fighters of his talent level, but he wasn't some guy who was limited in talent and overachieved to greatness. A guy like Carlos Monzon didn't have fast hands, didn't have quick feet or legs, wasn't blessed with extremely heavy hands, yet he's arguably the greatest middleweight ever.

Or someone like Dwight Qawi, a 5'5 light heavyweight without very fast hands and without true one-punch KO power, limited amateur experience, becoming a HOFer, 2 division champ, and top 20 LHW all-time (according to The Ring), beating quality fighters like Scott (who was like 8 inches taller than Qawi), Rossman, Saad, and the Davis brothers.

 

That was Gabe Ruelas. Ruelas wasn't the same for the previous 2 and a half years since he killed Garcia in a bout.

Gatti had a good chin. Not necessarily a great one, since he was dropped or hurt repeatedly by guys who aren't really big punchers, but given the fact that he took so many flush shots, his chin was pretty good.

I can see Mancini winning via cuts or stopping him late in a war, with a good deal of the damage coming through bodywork.

 

Gatti had pretty quick hands and feet. Just because he wasn't a PBF or Judah, by no means was he slow of foot and hand. Better than guys in these areas like Marciano and Graziano. Marciano had a better defense than the other two as he was adept at slipping jabs and had that akward crouch defense that guys often had problems with. Graziano was the most one dimensional out of all of them.

Gatti was just hot-headed. In addition to not taking training and sobriety too seriously, he would often box, get tagged with a few shots, then resort to winging wide hooks.

 

Boom Boom Baby

 

Mancini was a better fighter in every aspect than Gatti.

How would Gatti do against arguello and camacho? Yeah, he'd be embarassed.