Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P15
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By Tris Dixon
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September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
Ahead of the Pacquiao fight, I remember talking to Ricky down a long corridor inside London’s War Museum. I noticed a subconscious change, and I knew he wanted to win, but I’m not sure he believed he would.
The Pacquiao camp, run by Mayweather Snr, was a disaster. Ricky was overtrained and emotionally empty.
Pacquiao laid him out in two rounds.
The manner of the defeat was spectacularly bad for Ricky. There was no disgrace in losing to Pacquiao, who in his next fight would batter Miguel Cotto, but Ricky felt shame and embarrassment.
Despite taking thousands upon thousands to Vegas for both super-fights, and for Juan Urango and Jose Luis Castillo, Ricky could not view his own success through a positive prism; the way so many others did.
For example, on vacation and back in Vegas once with Jennifer, mother of his two daughters, he was informed by an MGM executive his money was no good.
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