Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P22
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By Tris Dixon
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September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
“But if it doesn’t go to plan – and there’s every chance it might not go to plan although I think it will, you’ve always got to plan for the worst – I can still come back to the gym, train my fighters, do my promoting and say I can live with that,” he told me on the eve of the contest.
It was not the fighting talk I was hoping for, and I wrote in my fight preview: “Regardless of what happens, the final chapter is being played out of Ricky Hatton’s storied career. But this is a fight for redemption and ultimately his success might well not be measured by what he achieves inside the ring, but how he copes once the ropes are no longer there to protect him from the outside world.”
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There was both no worse and no more contrasting way to go out.
Known for his body-punching, sell-out crowds, his fans and their deafening chorus of “Walking in a Hatton Wonderland”, Ricky had been stopped by a bodyshot, in his fortress MEN Arena and to a crowd silenced to the extent that you could have heard the proverbial pin drop. It was surreal, although that doesn’t do the moment justice.
His fans pleaded with him to get up until the referee counted to about seven.
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