Ricky Hatton: The heart and soul behind a boxing wonderland - P28
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By Tris Dixon
This Article has been curated by UDBN
September 25, 2025
Source: Boxing Scene
Barrera posted twice. “Always my brother” and “My closest friend in boxing,” wrote the Mexican great.
Duran echoed those sentiments. “Ricky was more than a great champion, he was a true brother.”
Hatton has great stories of being in Panama with Duran, and of Duran even being waved through passport control without having to show ID on account of being Roberto Duran, but the vicious Panamanian was actually Ricky’s dream opponent.
In Ricky’s house, once he came back for the interview where we had set up in his absence, I asked him if he could have fought any great who would it have been.
“I would say Roberto Duran, because Roberto Duran was my hero, and it would always be nice to share the ring with my hero just so you could see how good your hero actually was,” Ricky smiled. “And if you’re asking me how I think it would go, I think he’d fill me in.”
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