Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P12

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September 25, 2025

Ricky didn’t do it.

Cortez did the complete opposite of what Ricky and Billy had hoped, urgently breaking the fighters at every opportunity.

Ricky was dropped twice, stopped, and beaten for the first time in his career.

He cracked a few one-liners in the aftermath, but some major internal cracks began to develop.

I had been left to put together the coverlines at Boxing News the week before the bout and I’d headlined the issue ‘England expects’.

When I asked editor Claude Abrams what he made of it, he raised his eyebrows.

“Do we really expect?”

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