Carlos Baldomir KO9 Arturo Gatti... Although he had just 12 KOs in a 57-bout career prior to Saturday, Carlos "Tata" Baldomir showed Arturo Gatti the difference in strength and power between 140 and 147-pounders, as he knocked Gatti down twice and retained his world championship by ninth-round technical knockout. In a disappointment to Gatti's faithful fans in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Gatti moved up to welterweight but could not outslug the naturally bigger Baldomir and would not commit to trying to outbox him. Baldomir won at least six of the eight completed rounds and then decked Gatti twice in the ninth, causing the stoppage. An apparent wrist injury didn't help Gatti in his bid to become a three-division champion, but the outcome seemed inevitable anyway. At 40-8, with a glorious career full of trimphant battles and millions of dollars in ring earnings, the heroic Gatti said he might retire. Baldomir is 43-9-6 and hasn't lost since 1998. Few, if any, observers think the Argentine could defeat Floyd Mayweather, Jr., but Baldomir does have something Mayweather does not: the legitimate world welterweight championship. The lineage of the title began when Felix Trinidad vacated the division in 1999 to move up to 154, and runs from Oscar De La Hoya to Shane Mosley to Vernon Forrest to Ricardo Mayorga to Cory Spinks to Zab Judah to Baldomir. Mayweather defeated Judah only for the paper IBF title that was allowed to remain with Judah due to a financial dispute after Baldomir defeated Judah.  source: HBO Championship Boxing

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