Wife held in boxing champ's killing in Brazil

[madinmaryland]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/07/12/gatti.boxing.dead.brazil/index.html

(CNN) -- Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti as a suspect in his killing, according to local reports.

Gatti was found dead Saturday in a hotel in Brazil, where he was taking a vacation with his wife, Amanda Carina Barbosa Rodrigues, and their young child.

The 37-year-old Canadian, who was born in Italy and made his name as a fighter based in New Jersey, was staying in the northeast seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas.

Rodrigues, 23, was being held in a police station in the city of Recife in connection with the killing, a police official in Porto de Galihnas told CNN.

Police official Osmar Silva Santiago confirmed local reports that Gatti's body was found Saturday morning in his hotel room with strangulation marks.

:wtf:

[H2O Man]

1. Brutal and ugly.

Strangling him with the strap of her purse. Unreal.

There is already a good thread on this topic that you might find interesting.

Sad day for boxing.

[mix]

2. so what am i missing?

:shrug:

[rocktivity]

3. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Did she suspect another woman? Did he tell him their marriage was over?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[mix]

4. the dude was a beast

and she killed him with her purse?

[H2O Man]

5. She had bashed

him in the back of the head with some object first. Then strangled him.