04/15/2026
Pulse of Boxing Wishes Happy Birthday To 2017 HOF Inductee And Great – Arturo “Thunder” Gatti
Celebrating A Legend
Pulse of Boxing wishes Happy Birthday to undisputedly one of the most exciting fighters to ever grace an AC boxing ring, Arturo “Thunder” Gatti.
Mr. Excitement
In a career that lasted from 1991 – 2007, no one, night after night, excited as many fans and viewers than Arturo Gatti.
With other fighters, excitement may have been wished, but with Gatti, win, lose or draw, excitement was a guarantee.
Stirring the crowds with memorable come from behind wins like his 1996 KO of Wilson Rodriguez, along with subsequent wars, Gatti made it known that against him, the fight wasn’t over till that very last bell.
AC His Second Home
Finishing his career with a record of 40-9 (31KOs), Arturo graced an Atlantic City ring 23 times.
His AC fights with Gabriel Ruelas (’97), Ivan Robinson (’98) and Micky Ward (2003) were certified classics, winning Ring Magazine Fights Of The Year for those slugfests. Four times in all Gatti has been in a fight of the year honored event.
Other bouts with Angel Manfreddy, James Leija, Leonard Dorin, Thomas Damgaard and Floyd Mayweather, etc., also had the thousands of fans in attendance out of their seats.
Gone But Never Forgotten
Enshrined into the inaugural Atlantic City Boxing Hall Of Fame class in 2017, Gatti will forever be memorialized. But even without that distinction, how can any real boxing fan ever forget?
On what would have been his 54th birthday, the the Pulse of Boxing, Powered by the Atlantic City Boxing Hall of Fame, gives a boxing salute and thanks for all of the memories.
