On July 24, 2004, Arturo Gatti (37-6, 28 KOs), the super-lightweight WBC champion, defends his title against former world champion Leonard Doroftei (22-0-1, 8 KOs).
Arturo Gatti is coming in to the fight on a 3-fight win streak with a 65% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Gianluca Branco, 6 months ago. Leonard Doroftei is on a 1-fight win streak with a 34% KO rate, with his last fight being a 4th round TKO win over Charles Tschorniawsky, 4 months and 4 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Arturo Gatti at 99-1 winning odds. Leonard Doroftei really doesn't have much to present against Gatti.
Arturo Gatti made very easy work of Leonard Doroftei, stopping the challenger via KO in the 2nd. Gatti improves his record to 38-6 (29 KOs), while Doroftei adds a loss to his record at 22-1-1.