Arturo Gatti May Have Committed Suicide

The story surrounding Arturo Gatti's death may have taken a bizarre turn. (AP Images)"]

This story seems to get weirder and more tragic as time goes on.

An autopsy indicates former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide, been accidentally killed, or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner’s initial findings.

Police have said they are certain Gatti’s 23-year-old wife strangled the boxer with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept July 11, but the autopsy report raises some doubts.

The autopsy report, according to the newspaper, also said that “murder or accidental death” could not be ruled out. There was no explanation for “accidental death.”

Police arrested Rodrigues on suspicion of murdering the former two-division champion. She maintains her innocence and is being held in a prison in Recife.

A visitation for Gatti was scheduled for yesterday at Maison Funeraire Magnus Poirier in his adopted hometown of Montreal, with a funeral today at Notre Dame De La Defense.