RIP Rocky Gattelari

[Redback Rasta]

Rocky Gattellari has died at the age of 81.

Gattellari had been fighting dementia and has been in care since last September.

RIP Champ

[Beltane]

Rocky did keep the game going with his excitable fellow Italian fans before the advent of Lionel and Fammo.

He was a livewire - Vale Rocky.

[Grant]

I'm 68 yrs old and I can remember the hype around the Rose V Gatelleri fight in Sydney. It was a huge fight and my memory of the outcome, not broadcast, or I was too young to see it, was that Lionel went to hospital the next day to visit Rocky who was pretty badly beaten up. But then again I think Flyweight was Rocky's best weight. He was world rated at the lower weight and perhaps even had a version of that title, That's just my memory. R.I.P Rocky

[Brute]

Rocky fought Sal Burruni for the flyweight title but did not win it. I have spoken to Rocky a few times, we went to the same mechanic. My sympathy to his family, he was a tough little bloke.