The Mysterious Death of Arturo Gatti

Chris Jones at Grantland:

But despite the best efforts of his still-loyal corner, the story of Gatti's death will probably always be incomplete. He was a great boxer because his fights were definitive; there was never much mystery about him in the ring. But his end wasn't nearly as plain. There are so many possibilities, but each of them leads only to impossibility. Answer after answer, and yet none feels true.
For the people who knew and loved Gatti — most especially his longtime manager, Pat Lynch, who funded Ciolino's investigation — his alleged suicide remains the greatest impossibility. In brutal fights against Micky Ward, against Ivan Robinson, against Wilson Rodriguez, Arturo Gatti never quit. He won fights despite broken hands and swollen eyes. His face opened with the frequency of doors, but he always pushed through, blind to the blood.
How could a man with that kind of heart ever choose to stop it?

Gatti was brutal to watch.  His fight against Tracy Harris Patterson amazed me.  He was pummelled throughout the early rounds, but managed to come back and win the fight.  A fight he participated in was selected by The Ring magazine as the fight of the year four different years.  The man was extremely tough.  I don't know what happened to him, but anytime he entered the ring, he showed amazing heart.