Jackin4Beats Magazine

Former boxing champion Arturo Gatti, whose epic trilogy with Micky Ward branded him one of the most exciting fighters of his generation, was found dead in a hotel room in the posh seaside resort of Porto de Galihnas early Saturday.

Alves said police were investigating and it was unclear how the 37-year-old Canadian died.

“It is still too early to say anything concrete, although it is all very strange,” Alves said. He declined to provide any additional details.

Known for his straightforward punching and granite-like chin, Gatti captured the junior welterweight title in 1995, when he defeated Tracy Harris Patterson in Atlantic City, N.J. His brawling style and natural charisma made him a fan favorite, and he became one of New Jersey’s adopted sons while fighting some of his most memorable battles on the Boardwalk.

“His entire boxing career he fought with us, we’ve known him since he was 17,” Kathy Duva of promoter Main Events told The Associated Press. “It’s just an unspeakable tragedy. I can’t even find words. It’s a horror.”

Gatti defended his title three times before moving up in weight and getting stopped by Angel Manfredy in 1997. He lost twice more before running off four straight wins, setting up a big payday against Oscar De La Hoya.

Although Gatti was knocked out in the fifth round of a lopsided fight, his almost cult-like following never wavered in its support.

“He just captured the imagination of so many people,” Duva said. “We used to joke it was a crowd like the Grateful Dead’s, it was the same people every time.”

“He had no idea what an icon he was or how much he meant to people.”

Steve McNair, retired quarterback of the Tennessee Titans found dead on July 4, 2009.

Steve McNair was asleep on the couch, and a young lady with whom he had been in n undefined relationship with shoots him 4 times,  twice in the head and twice in the chest.  The you lady Sahel, then turns the gun on herself, tries to position herself to fall in his lap once the deed was done.  that didn’t happen, she fell at his feet.

Sad news for the family his wife Mechelle of 12 years and their 4 children, my prayers and condolences out to them.

Let me break this whole scenario down for you, it has been sugar coated in the media for the past week, but enough is enough. This man is creeping around in another state with this young girl who is 20 years old, she thinks she has struck gold, hey, he had it going on, he was a successful business man after he retired.

She figured he would leave his wife and family, and make her the queen b.  Come on ladies, we know that game.  Who knows, maybe he did tell her that, but when reality kicked in, and I am sure it did.  this “young” lady couldn’t handle the truth, so what does she do, take the brotha out, and then herself.

That is ridiculous.  I am sorry, if  things ain’t working out in your life the way you want them too, take yourself out, put yourself out of your misery, don’t take anybody else with you.  That may sound harsh, and maybe even cruel, but it is what it is.  This woman has taken the life of someone’s father, son, and yes, someone’s husband.  That has to be the craziest thing in the world to me.

Watch out peeps, everything done in the dark is destined to come out in the light, one way or the other.  Let’s just hope its not in death, like this man.

R.I.P. Steve McNair.

The memorial service held in LA on Tuesday July 7, 2009, was amazing.  I watched it several times just to get the real vibe of the performers, and guests.  It was awesome, the words spoken by Brooke Shields about the “real” Michael Jackson, and the touching words by Jermaine and Marlon were fabulous.  The words that Al Sharpton spoke and the tears he shed were truly heartfelt.  Usher and Jennifer Hudson’s performance brought down the house, yet the most humanistic moment of that entire ceremony was Paris Katherine Michael Jackson.  That 9 year old made Michael Jackson a “man”, a “daddy”. He became much more than a performer,  an artist, he became a “man” to me that day.

For all the media and press who are covering this story, if you didn’t feel anything at that moment, you need to walk away from journalism, you are not human.  The negative words and coverage that is coming out about Michael doesn’t mean a thing to those children.  He was then and will always be the best father in the world to them.

People are acting as if they have no secrets, no skeletons in their closets.  That’s probably why they do this job, to keep the focus off of the things they are doing in their lives that is not right.

Give it a rest people, leave him be, let these children remember their father as the man who loved them more than life, and he did.  He managed to keep them from you all for 12 years.  God Bless Mike.

More to come on the Coroner’s report.  Stay tuned, Scoop got the info coming at you!

OK, J4B family lets rewind the tape here, lets back track and see if I am the only one who thinks something is drastically wrong with this picture.  Here’s a medical doctor on scene, at the house with Michael when he “stops breathing”. 911 is called, you can hear the unidentified individual on the phone stating that the only person present when Michael collapsed was the doctor.  Then he states that the doc is doing CPR, OK, but MJ is still laying on the bed, according to the caller.  Anyone who is certified in CPR knows that you can not successfully administer CPR on the bed, the victim needs to be on a hard surface in order  administer compressions effectively. After all this happens, the EMT’s arrive, Mike is already dead, they take him to the hospital as ordered by the doctor, pronounce him dead, and the doctor is not seen or heard from anymore, until his car is towed from Jackson’s home.

Also, we are being told that this doctor has, at some point, treated the children.  Why, can someone please tell me, would a cardiologist be treating children? Do they have heart conditions?  Hmm, just not adding up to me.

A full investigation needs to be opened on this man.  If you are innocent, and have nothing to hide, why would you first, disappear after your client dies, and secondly, reappear with a lawyer.

Can you say GUILT Ridden!

Stay tuned more to come!

More sad news on the horizon.  The Oxi-Clean infomercial dude, is on a plane, gets conked on the head, goes home, goes to sleep, and doesn’t wake up!

Come on people, really?  This is the fourth celeb this week.

Think about this, these are well known people, how many no name people is this happening to.  We need to be more careful, in our day to day lives.  Life is too short!

Get prayed up J4B  fam, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Micheal Jackson, and now Billy Mays.  I don’t know about you, but I am praying ,  and getting my house in order.

Though still in shock regarding the death of Michael Jackson, rumors are flying that there was possibly some foul play in his sudden death.

Being in the medical field for quite a few years, everything that has been reported thus far is not adding up.  The “Personal” physician on hand when he collapsed, the fact that  you have EMT’s reporting  he was DOA, and not in a coma. What is really going on here?

I  have to say J4B fam, something don’t smell good here.  I’m on the case though. I think we have a criminal case on our hands.

Here’s the latest, as reported by an anonymous tipster, the doctor had just, 11 days ago, sent letters out to all his patient’s notifying them that he had a better offer and would not be practicing for awhile.

Something about this doctor ain’t sitting right with me.

It’s a sad day, but one thing for sure the man who sought inner peace his whole life, now has accomplished his ultimate goal! He’s moonwalking on the clouds!  You go Mike!

RIP Mike!  I gotcha back!