"No one beat the crap out of gotti. What an exaggeration. He got into a scuffle with someone he had been bullying for some time."

Gotti absolutely got badly beaten for balking at the Aryan Brotherhood. He ordered them to kill someone and they literally took his money and refused to carry out the hit. The AB were his bodyguards in prison up until they day they were finished extorting him for the final $100,000. Read the story, look at the pictures from the prison hospital, they split his head open. Calling it a scuffle was the exaggeration, had he not watched what he said and how he acted directly after the incident the AB would have killed him much sooner than the cancer.