RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The Brazilian wife of  former Canadian world boxing champion Arturo Gatti has been  charged with his murder, police said on Sunday.
Italian-born Gatti, who was 37, was found dead on Saturday  in the holiday flat the couple had rented in the northern  Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas.
Amada Rodrigues, 23, was being held in custody in the  Atlantic port city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco state,  police said.
“She is the only suspect,” a spokesman for Pernambuco  police told Reuters by telephone.

Gatti was IBF super featherweight champion in 1995 and WBC  super lightweight champion in 2004. He retired in 2007.

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