Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P17
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By Tris Dixon
This Article has been curated by UDBN
September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
When Ricky left Vegas, Vegas needed to recover.
That is not lore. That is fact. Despite the results, everyone left happy. Every time.
Or so you’d hope.
The truth was that Ricky struggled.
The man of the people battled in a lonely darkness and things were going from bad to worse. His split with Billy was going legal, and that triggered a huge rift with his family. Then came a Sunday newspaper headline of Ricky in a hotel with cocaine and £20 note.
Everything hit at once; compounded by the Pacquaio devastation.
Just three fights before, he was telling me how he knew he could beat Floyd Mayweather. Now he was looking at retirement. He couldn’t bring himself to watch boxing.
“It’s gone. It’s gone forever,” he thought to himself. “It’s just going to be shit from here on in.”
He could not snap the negative spiralling.
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