Overview

• LowKickMMA cites friends and social posts reporting the 17-year-old’s death earlier this week.
• Chuck Zito said on Instagram the teen was found hanging in an apartment in Mexico, a claim not corroborated by authorities.
• News outlets stress that no public details on the circumstances have been confirmed and no formal statements have been issued by family or officials.
• Condolences from the boxing community have proliferated, with many messages directed to his mother, Amanda Rodrigues.
• Gatti Jr. had been developing as a young boxer, and coverage notes the family’s history following his father’s disputed 2009 death at 37.