On May 18, 2002, two fighters came together to put on one of the greatest fights in the history of the sport of boxing. Mickey Ward and Arturo Gatti would go on to face each other two more times, but this fight always stuck in my memory.
On this night, both fighters would cement themselves a place in boxing history. They both showed incredible skill, determination and heart while overcoming adversity over the course of 30 minutes in the ring with one another.
"'Boxing is a poor man’s sport. It’s a sport that demands your outright respect. Most people look at boxing or any contact sport and say, 'Wow, I couldn’t do that,' because they don’t possess the thing inside of us that makes us go through pain. It takes something to activate that. That’s what separates fighters from other people.'
Gatti and Ward were both truly game fighters on this night in 2002.
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