Joe Gatti Joe Gatti "Lightning" Joe Gatti (born 12 April 1967) is a Canadian former middleweight boxer who fought out of Jersey City, New Jersey. He is the older brother of former world boxing champion, Arturo Gatti. Born in Montreal, Quebec Gatti relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey in the late 1980s from Canada where he lived and trained with Panama Lewis. Joe was the chief sparring partner of Canadian born champion Matthew Hilton. Although Joe did not live up to the fame and fortune of his younger brother, he held a steadfast career record boasting 30 wins (22 K.O.) and 8
Barbados Joe Walcott in Boston. Gardner would became a world welterweight contender against Mike "Twin" Sullivan in April of that year. New York's "Evening World", wrote that Walcott's performance "did not come up to expectations", and that Gardner's win "was one of the easiest victories he ever earned." On November 2, 1911, Walcott fought his last reported bout against Tom Sawyer in Lowell, Massachusetts. He walked out of the ring before the bell at the end of the one-sided 12-round technical knockout, and said to the crowd "I'm 40 years old and I guess I'm done with this game." Walcott squandered a fortune