Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P19
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By Tris Dixon
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September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
He drank. He isolated. He contemplated suicide. He went to rehab.
“What did I do to this world to have it fucking happen to me, this whole weight that seems to have fallen on my shoulders?” he once asked me.
He felt he’d lost the equity he’d built.
“I’ve always had time for people, I’ve never turned a picture down, and I think that’s why I had the support I did and I think because of that everyone’s had their picture now so I’m alright to go out… I’d like to think there’s not too many people out there who’ve come across me, or asked me for a picture, who’d call me a dickhead. I’ve had my moments over the years, and I’ve had some down times, but all in all, I think I’m a good egg.”
“Hatton needs our support,” I wrote in Boxing News in 2010, and the day before he formally announced his retirement in 2011, he called and said of hanging the gloves up: “I still don’t want to believe it to this day.”
Ricky started posting on social media, and was shocked at how he could be attacked by those he hoped loved him.
It gave strangers a direct route to get at him, and could exacerbate his misery.
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