“I'm going for your daughter”. “You are my enemy for life”. Those phrases could be a braggadocio that is released after a heat. Phrases that can remain an anecdote if they are said by 99% of the world population, but not if they are said by the Gotti family.
On March 18, 1980, 12-year-old Frank Gotti died, accidentally run over by a neighbor, John Favara, on a New York street.. His mother, Victoria, asked for revenge after seeing her son's murderer at a party and, on top of that, being insulted by him. Mysteriously, some time later, Favara was not seen again after being introduced by some thugs into the trunk of a car.
The father of that child was John Gotti and, although no one could prove anything, everyone in the Big Apple knew who was responsible for that murder, as one of his hitmen later confirmed in court.. Gotti, at that time, was a theoretical employee of a plumbing company despite always dressing in designer suits and no one ever saw him with a toolbox repairing a pipe.
Gambino family boss John Gotti with his lawyer.
12 years after that, Gotti would be sentenced to life in prison by a New York court for five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, violations of the RICO Law (organized crime), obstruction of justice, tax evasion, illegal gambling, extortion and loan sharking..
In those dozen years, Gotti had become the head of the Gambino family after murdering his predecessor, Paul Castellano, point-blank in December 1985.. Gotti thus became the most powerful criminal syndicate in the United States, as it was defined at that time..
In 2002, Gotti died of throat cancer while the Gambino family continued to operate between his brother Peter and his son John Gotti Junior.. However, after the arrest of more than half of the family, the Gambino clan was losing power to the strength of the Russian mafias and other eastern countries.
John Gotti Jr.. He is the father of six children including MMA fighter John Gotti III. A fighter who has a record of five victories to one in that discipline of mixed martial arts. “I share the name 'John Gotti'. I want to put it in a positive light and show people that I am a working child and that I am dedicated to this game,” the fighter explained in an interview with Bleacher Report.
“My father and my grandfather are part of me. But this is a different path that I'm taking,” he also said in that interview.. What, however, brings him closer to his family is what he told him after the fight he starred in against Floyd Mayweather. “Punk bitch Floyd Mayweather you are my enemy for life”. Those words, in which he tried to involve Connor McGregor by tagging him on social networks, are more like his past than Gotti prior to this gig.
Camp battle
And it is that, before the fight, for which Mayweather pocketed 25 million and Gotti III around 20, all were good words about the boxer being “his idol”.. However, the fight could not end because the 'trash talk' between the two became so unbearable that referee Kenny Bayless had to stop the 'official' fight.. After the bell sounded, Gotti tried to hit Mayweather and the members of both teams and even other people in the public started a pitched battle that ended with several injuries and other complaints filed..
These events have cost Gotti a 6-month sanction by the Florida Sports Commission. However, McGregor, in response to the fighter's call, has taken part for the Gotti family. “I support the Gotti, time is money” he wrote on his Twitter, although he later deleted the message. And he hurled a dart at Mayweather that he “didn't see the point in his bowling” and that the “real fight started when the fight was stopped.”
But, if someone has shown the true character of the Gotti, it has been Nicolette Gotti, the fighter's sister, who did not hesitate to threaten Mayweather's own daughter after the incidents. “Your daughter was hit by an animal with 12 different babies, little circus animal. You're all a herd of zoo animals. I swear on my children that I'm going for her”. If someone with the last name Gotti says it, it may not be a bluff.