a ny/ new jersey day mets,yanks,ARTURO GATTI!!!!!!!!

I am from the south so I am no diehard yankee fan but a great day for sports and a real treat in atlantic city
the mets are one of the best teams in baseball right now and especially in a department where alot of people overlook,the bullpen. the mets have one of the best bullpens in baseball if not the best and with orlando coming off a tough game and brandon coming off an injury,combined with the lack of houston bats and wins on the road I love the mets for the early game.
the yankees should win this one with a reliable wang and how many times are the yankees swept,I like detroit,people keep looking for a letdown,fellas,jim leyland is not the kind of manager who lets you take a day off.

I am going to have a pint with some of the lads I play rugby with and watch one of the greatest fighters of our time,arturo gatti, maybe finish out his career. This guy is a monster and this is by far the best wager on the board,if you like watching boxing, watch this fight, this guy doesnt quit,and at -200 is a damn good wager
Cheers
Idget

my mistake,yankees loss wouldn't be a sweep, a game tomorrow, I am hoping wang can hold toronto to to a few runs ,I actually thought without hillenbrand this team would slow down. The jays are sure fun to watch at home though.I love that stadium
Cheers
Idget

Gatti was all done after Mayweather destroyed him and his last fight
was supposed to be a going away into retirement gift win for him. Well, he won but he was close to being taken out by a total no-name bum who had to go the distance with a guy who was something like 10 and 50 (the record!).
Gatti is now all of a sudden a force again to be reckoned with?! I don't
think so. People don't realize or are stupid that he could easily have lost
his last fight when he was -400! He's 'shot' himself, like Vargas, and is
too small for this guy as well. He looks all shrivelled up just like he did
before the Mayweather annihilation and his face looks like someone who died and is in an open casket for viewing....almost scary looking!
He is basically still a club fighter and he has been in so many wars already
against lesser competition that I give him about a snowball's chance in you know where to beat Carlos Baldomir. Baldomir beat Zab and while everybody says Zab wasn't in shape or took him too lightly; the fact remains that Zab made the weight and hit Carlos with some
good shots yet simply lost fair and square...so what if he took him too
lightly??!!...Baldomir ONLY still managed to beat the guy who everyone said at the time was the number one or two pound-for-pounder in the world...over 12 rounds yet! It wasn't as if it was a flukey one punch knockout! Baldomir took a lot of fights years ago on short notice; hence the shabby record and low ko%. But, he's going up against a broken down has-been 'club-fighter' whose record ain't anything to write home about either. Check out the last time Baldomir lost! It has been a while and he has a rock-solid chin. Those Argentinians are as tough as nails.

Look at the line on it. Gatti is the fave cuz of his popularity. The odds on Baldomir by ko, tko,
dq is fantastic at 6-1!!! This one has great value and you have to be off your rocker to lay 2-1 on Gatti to win outright.

Best bet on the board??? Are you nuts?

Baldomir at 5½-1 by TK KO or DQ is by far the best value on the board today.

we'll see sherwood,and gatti is a canadian ,where is your loyalty.here is an article from covers,this is a baseball forum but gatti will go down as one of the greats,I have seen loads of his fights and he is one of the most exciting fighters i have ever seen.
Cheers
Idget


Fri, Jul 21, 2006


HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Six months after he almost retired, Arturo Gatti (-200) said he has his desire back as he heads into Saturday night`s WBC welterweight title bout against reigning champ Carlos Baldomir (+160).

``I`m very excited, very nervous,`` Gatti said at a news conference held a short distance away from his home in Jersey City. ``I haven`t felt like this since I fought Tracy Patterson in `95, my first title fight. I want this fight more than ever.``

Beating Patterson earned Gatti the IBF junior lightweight title, his first, and he went on to win the WBC junior welterweight belt in 2004 against Gianluca Branco in Atlantic City`s Boardwalk Hall, the same arena where he will face Baldomir.

The chance to win a belt in a third weight class is one motivator for the 34-year-old Gatti, who admitted after beating Thomas Damgaard in January that he had decided a loss to the unbeaten Dane would signal the end of the line after 15 years and 47 fights.

That became unnecessary when he stopped Damgaard in the 11th round, an outcome that also eased some of the sting of a lopsided beating Gatti absorbed at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr. the previous June.

Whenever Gatti (40-7, 31 KOs) decides to hang up the gloves - and he intimated that each fight will bring another reassessment - he will leave as one of the sport`s grittiest performers. That quality has endeared him to fight fans in New Jersey, who had already snapped up all 12,000 tickets in Boardwalk Hall by early in the week.

His legacy secure in Atlantic City, he seemed unconcerned about whether his achievements merit consideration for boxing`s hall of fame.

``To be honest, I really don`t care,`` Gatti said. ``It would be nice if I was inducted, but it seems like some writers don`t think I should be. But if you ask the fans, they think I should. So I`m not going to break my head over that. I`m not done yet. The boxing hall of fame`s for retired fighters, and I`m not ready to retire.``

In the 35-year-old Baldomir (42-9-6, 12 KOs), Gatti will face a fighter who has only been knocked down once as a professional and who shocked Zab Judah in January to win the welterweight title as a heavy underdog.

Gatti beat Damgaard by mixing up his attack, fighting in a left-handed stance in stretches and not relying solely on the toe-to-toe brawling style that has been his hallmark. He may need to do the same against Baldomir.

``We`ve got to box him, we`ve got to be really smart,`` said Buddy McGirt, Gatti`s trainer. ``You`ve got to be ready for a long night. He`s not one of those guys who can knock you out with one punch, but he`s just strong, and constant. I`d rather fight a puncher because you know what to look for with a puncher. With a guy like this, you don`t know what to expect.``

Baldomir was respectful of his more accomplished opponent at Wednesday`s news conference, but later through a translator called Gatti a hard hitter ``for a super-featherweight or a lightweight`` and said Gatti ``is slower and already has seen too many punches.``

Gatti sounded prepared to mix and match styles if necessary.

``If worse comes to worse I`ll box him, but if not I can brawl with him. I think you`re going to see a bout on Saturday night like my second fight against Micky Ward,`` Gatti said, referring to one of his three epic slugfests with his chief rival. ``Zab Judah wasn`t able to keep him away from him, but I`ll make Baldomir think before he connects

another great article on gatti fight for anyone interested in it, this thread may be moved to boxing forum but that forum rarely sizzles . I promise you whoever wins ,even sherwood would have to admit gatti is entertaining, you are in for a show tonight if you watch this fight.
cheers idget


Complete. Reckless. Abandonment.

Those three words jump out like a 3D puzzle when you think of Arturo Gatti. His three incredibly entertaining slugfests with Micky Ward are the among the best battles boxing has ever seen.

Two fighters. Toe-to-toe. It was like watching 10 rounds of a destruction derby.

But can we expect the same from Gatti, the –200 favorite, this Saturday in Atlantic City? Gatti is a changed man. He’s a boxer now, not a fighter.

The same however, can’t be said about his opponent, WBC welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir.

“The big difference I think is skill,” Brett Conway from Maxboxing.com told Covers.com.

“Although Gatti built his early reputation on brawling, for the last four years he has been working with trainer Buddy McGirt who has brought Gatti`s boxing skills back. He throws great jabs, hooks, combinations, and has great movement in the ring now.”

Baldomir meanwhile, smothered Zap Judah in his last fight en route to capturing the WBC title belt in January. Doing the same against Gatti, once the best brawlers in the business, is another story.

“He`s a good pressure fighter who will beat any boxer with a psychological weakness and Judah`s is inconsistency between and during fights,” says Conway. “Gatti, however, never quits.”

Trainer Buddy McGirt has transformed Gatti from a fighter to a boxer in the four or so years the two have been paired. McGirt has said he expects Baldomir, who has only 12 knockouts, to be aggressive in an attempt to lure Gatti into a brawl.

“That’s the only way that Baldomir has a chance of winning,” McGirt said. “It’s got to be a boxing match. A brawl falls right into Baldomir’s hands.’’

Gatti needs to keep Baldomir no the outside to prevent him from attacking. If Gatti can do that, he has a very realistic shot at not only capturing his third world championship belt in his third weight division, but also a spot among boxing’s greats.

Baldomir is a +160 underdog.

Yeah, Gatti's fights are always worth the price of admission.

Very entertaining stuff indeed.

Good luck Idge whatever you do.

I made a small 80 bet on the Agentinian to win by KO, TKO, or DQ.

sherwood said:

Gatti was all done after Mayweather destroyed him and his last fight
was supposed to be a going away into retirement gift win for him. Well, he won but he was close to being taken out by a total no-name bum who had to go the distance with a guy who was something like 10 and 50 (the record!).
Gatti is now all of a sudden a force again to be reckoned with?! I don't
think so. People don't realize or are stupid that he could easily have lost
his last fight when he was -400! He's 'shot' himself, like Vargas, and is
too small for this guy as well. He looks all shrivelled up just like he did
before the Mayweather annihilation and his face looks like someone who died and is in an open casket for viewing....almost scary looking!
He is basically still a club fighter and he has been in so many wars already
against lesser competition that I give him about a snowball's chance in you know where to beat Carlos Baldomir. Baldomir beat Zab and while everybody says Zab wasn't in shape or took him too lightly; the fact remains that Zab made the weight and hit Carlos with some
good shots yet simply lost fair and square...so what if he took him too
lightly??!!...Baldomir ONLY still managed to beat the guy who everyone said at the time was the number one or two pound-for-pounder in the world...over 12 rounds yet! It wasn't as if it was a flukey one punch knockout! Baldomir took a lot of fights years ago on short notice; hence the shabby record and low ko%. But, he's going up against a broken down has-been 'club-fighter' whose record ain't anything to write home about either. Check out the last time Baldomir lost! It has been a while and he has a rock-solid chin. Those Argentinians are as tough as nails.

Look at the line on it. Gatti is the fave cuz of his popularity. The odds on Baldomir by ko, tko,
dq is fantastic at 6-1!!! This one has great value and you have to be off your rocker to lay 2-1 on Gatti to win outright.

Best bet on the board??? Are you nuts?

Baldomir at 5½-1 by TK KO or DQ is by far the best value on the board today.

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Thank you Sherwood! Threw a little on Baldomir because of your write-up. Never hurts to play the dog.

Sad way for gatti to go out in the ninth , he has looked alot better,congrats sherwood and puckhandler, it was a good fight to watch.
cheers
idget