Arturo “Thunder” Gatti (April 15, 1972 – July 11, 2009) was an Italian-born Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, New Jersey as a teenager.
Gatti won world championships designated by two different boxing boards in two different weight classes. He also participated in Ring Magazine ’​s “Fight of the Year” a total of four times (1997, 1998, 2002, and 2003). Gatti retired on July 14, 2007 with a record of 40 wins and 9 losses, with 31 wins by knockout.On December 10, 2012, Gatti was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, in his first year of eligibility. He became the 10th Canadian pugilist to be inducted into the IBHOF.

– wikipedia.com

This is the boxer our Master Of Ceremonies has chosen for the “Thunder” tournament, leading to the theme that the fight has to reference severe weather. Here at BW Media Spotlight, we like to take things a bit further when we can. Why reference severe weather when you can beat it up? Namely, a tornado!

Thunderous

The Battlefield: Superman/TRS Computer Whiz Kids (DC/Radio Shack; July, 1980) “The Computers That Saved Metropolis!”

The Promoters: Cary Bates (writer), Jim Starlin & Dick Giordano (artists), with no listing for colorists, letterers, or editorial

There’s a tornado running around downtown Metropolis and Superman’s first duty is to deny it victims.

Thanks to a mess-up in word balloon placement, it looks like dad is the excited one. 😀

Hang on, Superman. What the tornado lacks in sharks it makes up for with outdated mustaches and exposition that’s surprisingly calm for someone being tossed out of a tornado.

“Next time leave the exposition to the narration.”

Seriously, even for the 70s that mustache was long since out of style. Anyway, with no more people to rescue Superman can take the tornado head on!

Forgetting he had garlic bread for lunch, Superman took out the tornado and at least half a block.

And so the victory for this fight goes to Major Disaster. Wait, what?

“And if that doesn’t kill his brain cells I’ll subject him to a “Keeping Up With The Kardashians marathon!”

And that’s not even the worse thing Superman inhaled at the time. This is a major city after all.

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It’s Prize Fight time! Head to Spacebooger.com and vote for your favorite Friday Night Prize Fight! (Forum membership is NOT required to vote, only to comment.) The winner of this round gets an Amazon gift card. I actually won one last tournament, and wouldn’t mind doing it again, but all of us could use some more competition. Check Spacebooger’s on Tuesdays for rules and join us in the Friday Night Fights!