I get irritated when I read the comments sections of articles related to boxing because some people post some fo the most disrespectful comments.
Thinking to myself, this dude is going into the ring and getting his brain damaged for our entertainment, and you're calling him a coward? It's maddening to be brehs. That's especially so when you're familar with so many fighters having the most dysfunctional lives both during and even long after their career is over. But check out this Ricky Hatton piece. I knew about the alcohol problems, but I didn't know how hard he took losing to Mayweather and Pac. I didn't post the entire piece, but the lank is there if you want to check out the whole thing.
Ricky Hatton: Pain of defeats to Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather led to my suicide bids
In June, it will be a decade since the finest moment of Ricky Hatton’s career, the victory over Kostya Tszyu. Already hugely popular in this country, beating Tszyu made him a global star and led to a series of fights with the sport’s biggest names.
Those fights, which culminated in defeats to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, made Hatton more than £25 million, but they almost cost him his life.
Until he was knocked out by Mayweather and Pacquiao, Hatton had never lost. The shame and guilt he felt at losing his unbeaten record, and the anxiety that his career was on a downward trajectory, led to a deep depression.
Within four years of that glorious triumph over Tszyu, Hatton was at his lowest point: there were alcoholic binges, a tabloid cocaine expose, and, as had happened between fights during his career, his weight ballooned.
Hatton tried several times to kill himself. Finally, what saved him was boxing. His comeback in 2012 may have ended in a third defeat - to Vyacheslav Senchenko - but the discipline of preparing to return to the ring began a process of recovery which has continued in retirement.
Today, approaching his 37th birthday, Hatton has finally found some peace.
He said: “I don’t have those dark thoughts any more, no. I am feeling older and, as you get older, you can look back at everything you’ve done in your life with a bit more pride. Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn’t cope with it very well.”
Hatton can now see how the losses to Pacquaio and Mayweather, and the public’s disappointment at the manner of them, precipitated his breakdown.
“People used to say to me for years about the Mayweather fight and it f**** me off: ‘Losing to Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is ok, there’s no shame in that.’ No, no, no. I didn’t go there just because it was them and it was a big payday. I went there to f****** beat them. So, when I didn’t, it did my head in.”
“I felt I’d let people down. I look at those fights with pride now, but for so long I just thought, f****** hell, I got beaten by him, I don’t want to leave the house, it’s embarrassing. I told everyone I was going to beat them and I couldn’t.”
Now Hatton can see honour in defeat. “Floyd gave me probably the biggest compliment he could have and he doesn’t give many out. He said, ‘Sometimes when I get to round six or seven and the fight is out of reach of the other guy, I jab and move and keep away so they see the final bell, but when the fight was running away from you, you just kept coming at me. Roger (Mayweather, his trainer) kept saying you’d fade and give in, but you never did.’”
I still have that "top ten pacquaio kos" (4 yrs ago mind you) on my PS3 wit Ledwaba,hatton etc haven't watched it in yrs. i use to rewind that demonic left hook n his chest cavity exhaling in slo mo 
I remember the first gif I saw of this. Someone was like: turnbuckle 1-0-1KO