Wow

Arturo "Thunder" Gatti just clinched a boxing match on HBO with an 11th-round TKO. The punch that sent his bloodied opponent -- Demmark's Thomas Damgaard -- stammering about the ring and led the referee to stop things was a hard right to the head. This is the same right hand that Gatti likely broke in about the 4th or 5th round. He knocked the man out with a broken hand. (Something he's done before to other fighters.) He fought for 6-7 rounds -- and continued to throw and land punches -- with a broken hand.

This is nothing new for Gatti, who with Mickey Ward, over a span of 13 months in 2002-2003, fought the greatest three-fight saga since the Ali-Frazier trilogy. Gatti also beat Ward at least once with a broken hand.

People ask me why I love to watch boxing. It's savage and bloody and brutal, they say.

It is. They're right.

And it's gripping and primal and every once in a while you get to say something like this that is true in no other sport: He knocked the man out with a broken hand.