Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P13
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By Tris Dixon
This Article has been curated by UDBN
September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
When I asked editor Claude Abrams what he made of it, he raised his eyebrows.
“Do we really expect?”
We did not really expect, but a nation hoped.
Ricky and Billy got it right. Britain had wanted a Hatton victory. Britain had not expected a Hatton victory.
By the time Ricky returned, the momentum of his previous 43 fights was gone and his psyche dented. He’d been able to walk through the fire in his relentless pursuit of being the best, but it all came crashing down in Vegas.
The frustration at Cortez was part of it, but the loss, the stoppage, the feeling of letting down some 25,000 travelling fans (read it again, 25,000 fans travelled 8,500 kilometers west, from the UK to the Nevada desert) hurt him irreparably.
Ricky had felt he was bulletproof. He thought he could do what he did to Kostya Tszyu to anyone; walk them down, make them suffer until he either stops them or they quit.
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