Hundreds remember boxer slain in Atlanta as a soft-spoken champion, in and out of the ring

ATLANTA — Three-time boxing champion Vernon Forrest was remembered Monday by some 1,500 friends, family and fellow athletes as a soft-spoken, modest competitor defined more by his work helping others than his victories in the ring.

Brazil: Police detail how boxer Gatti committed suicide, why they first called it homicide

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police say boxer Arturo Gatti hanged himself with a bag strap that he tied around a wooden staircase column more than seven feet off the ground.

Crowd remembers scrappy, playful Gatti at boxer’s NJ send-off

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Arturo Gatti drew a capacity crowd in his final show Thursday as former fighters and area tough guys filled a northern New Jersey church to pay homage to the fallen boxer.

Brazil: Boxer Gatti’s death ruled a suicide and his wife ordered released

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police say the death of boxer Arturo Gatti was a suicide and a court has ordered the release of his wife.

Police: Ex-boxing champ Vernon Forrest exchanged gunfire in robbery before being shot to death

ATLANTA — Former boxing champion Vernon Forrest exchanged gunfire with robbery suspects before being shot to death, Atlanta police said Monday.

Slain Ex-boxing champ, Olympian Vernon Forrest remembered by passion for helping others

ATLANTA — Vernon Forrest made his living with his fists, but his true calling, friends say, was helping children and others with disabilities, treating them like members of his family.

Police: Former WBC boxing champion Vernon Forrest shot, killed in apparent robbery in Atlanta

ATLANTA — Vernon Forrest, a former two-division champion who gained stardom when he became the first boxer to defeat Shane Mosley, was shot to death in what police are calling an attempted robbery.

Grief and cheers: Boxing community pays respects at Arturo Gatti’s funeral in Montreal

MONTREAL — Arturo Gatti was remembered as a big-hearted, star fighter at his funeral Monday, drawing a standing ovation from mourners when his mother received a championship belt from the World Boxing Council.

Brazilian newspaper says Gatti may have committed suicide

SAO PAULO — An autopsy indicates former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide, been accidentally killed or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner’s initial findings.

Brazilian newspaper says autopsy indicates Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide

SAO PAULO — A Brazilian newspaper says that an autopsy performed on former boxing champ Arturo Gatti indicates he may have committed suicide.

Funeral to be held in Montreal for former two-division champion Arturo Gatti

MONTREAL — A funeral for former boxing champion Arturo Gatti will be held Monday in his adopted hometown of Montreal.

Locals fondly recall Arturo Gatti in Jersey City neighborhood where he honed his boxing skills

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Boxing trainer Mike Skowronski honed his skills beside Arturo Gatti at Jersey City’s Ringside Gym and said the former champ’s longtime friends never liked Gatti’s wife — who is suspected of strangling him.

Lawyer asks for release of Brazilian wife of slain former boxing champion Arturo Gatti

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Brazilian wife of Arturo Gatti asked to be released from jail, where she is held on accusations she strangled the former boxing champion with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept.

Arturo Gatti’s Wife Detained In Suspicion Of His Death

According to reports, Brazilian authorities are supposedly detaining the 23 year old wife of the slain former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti. Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues has being held back by the legal authorities in suspicion of being involved in the murder. Speculative reports seem to indicate that Gatti had possibly been bludgeoned to death. His wife and infant son were reported to have been unharmed.

Brazilian police working on assumption that wife strangled former boxing champion Arturo Gatti

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.

Police formally accuse wife of former boxing champ Arturo Gatti after his death in Brazil

SAO PAULO — Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti and formally accused her Sunday of killing him at a posh seaside tourist resort in Brazil.

Police detain wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti after his death at Brazil resort

SAO PAULO — The wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti was detained as a suspect by Brazilian authorities Sunday following his death at a posh seaside resort.

Former boxing champion Gatti found dead

Sao Paulo,BRAZIL - Former boxing world champion Arturo Gatti has been found dead in a hotel room in a Brazilian tourist resort.

Former junior welterweight boxing champ Arturo Gatti found dead in Brazil hotel

SAO PAULO — Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti, whose epic trilogy with Micky Ward branded him one of the most exciting fighters of his generation, was found dead in a hotel room in the posh seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas early Saturday.