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A couple links on the Gatti tribute front. First of all, my piece over at HBO, which is a compendium of excerpts from interviews I did with Micky Ward, Buddy McGirt, Jim Lampley, Larry Merchant, Manny Steward, Max Kellerman and Ross Greenburg. It’s an HBO-heavy list, admittedly, but I got a lot of great material, and I think the piece reads like a neat little oral history of Gatti’s career.

I also include links to Pound 4 Pound’s show from last night, which was devoted to Gatti and includes Ward, McGirt, Greenburg and Ivan Robinson as guests. Also, remember, HBO is running all three Gatti-Ward fights back-to-back-to-back tonight at 9 and then tomorrow on HBO2 at 10:15. In other words, get the TiVo humming, cause you’re going to want to keep them shits in the collection.

Remembering Arturo Gatti
Jim Lampley: “At the end of any HBO fight, the mechanics of the telecast are such that I throw into the ring and then stand up and walk to the camera to do my post-fight on cameras, which is a difference of maybe eight or ten feet. When I stood up at the end of the tenth round of the first Gatti-Ward fight to walk the eight or ten feet to go to the camera, I almost could not straighten my body up because my stomach muscles were locked so tight from being tensed up involuntarily… just from watching what these two guys were doing to each other.”

Pound 4 Pound Radio: Gatti Tribute 1

Pound 4 Pound Radio: Gatti Tribute 2