Reading about Ricky Hatton is one of the reasons I don't like being overly critical of fighters.

[RatherUnique]

Hatton was a fun ass fighter to watch I remember him hittin dudes with body shots so hard dudes quit the match

 

[Black Gatsby]

I was working at Sky Sports when he was really at the height of his problems, some of the stories Adam Smith told us were proper sad. Family members would find him watching the Pac tape crying and the like, regardless of everything Hatton is a good guy so you don't like hearing that he's going through such problems

 

[TheNig]

Basically if floyd fights another uk fighter he's getting some of the uk ppv money?

Some? He'd get the majority of that money. Brits love them some Floyd.

 

[RatherUnique]

Some? He'd get the majority of that money. Brits love them some Floyd.

White Brits always accepted Black Americans more than White Americans accepted their own countrymen. From music to sport.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Most of clowning of fighters is me having fun outchea...(Bum Ass Timothy Bradley™ stans know what I'm talkin' bout) but I could never question any fighters bravery just because it takes a certain type of person to step into that ring.
But some fighters I don't like and some I do.
For instance I never liked Hatton just because his biggest win against Tszyu (a favorite of mine) was some bullshyt because that ref allowed Hatton to fight like it was a Tough Man competition instead of a boxing match.

 

[patscorpio]

Most of clowning of fighters is me having fun outchea...(Bum Ass Timothy Bradley™ stans know what I'm talkin' bout) but I could never question any fighters bravery just because it takes a certain type of person to step into that ring.
But some fighters I don't like and some I do.
For instance I never liked Hatton just because his biggest win against Tszyu (a favorite of mine) was some bullshyt because that ref allowed Hatton to fight like it was a Tough Man competition instead of a boxing match.

Cosign everything...esp hatton's "win" over tszyu...shyt legit had me pissed as hell

 

[Newzz]

Most of clowning of fighters is me having fun outchea...(Bum Ass Timothy Bradley™ stans know what I'm talkin' bout) but I could never question any fighters bravery just because it takes a certain type of person to step into that ring.
But some fighters I don't like and some I do.
For instance I never liked Hatton just because his biggest win against Tszyu (a favorite of mine) was some bullshyt because that ref allowed Hatton to fight like it was a Tough Man competition instead of a boxing match.

Cosign everything...esp hatton's "win" over tszyu...shyt legit had me pissed as hell

Yeah, it was some bullshyt against Tszyu...plus the low blows he caught Tszyu with as well


He got repaid by both Pac and Floyd embarrassing him on US soil where all that bar room brawling/wrestling that Hatton did was nullified

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

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.’”

for years I've felt thar floyd intentionally didn't knock guys out bc he didn't want to really hurt them. This confirms it.

 

[RatherUnique]

Yeah, it was some bullshyt against Tszyu...plus the low blows he caught Tszyu with as well


He got repaid by both Pac and Floyd embarrassing him on US soil where all that bar room brawling/wrestling that Hatton did was nullified

I thought Tszyu started low blows first? Then Hatton gave it back. Haven't seen the fight in a min tho.

 

[Newzz]

I thought Tszyu started low blows first? Then Hatton gave it back. Haven't seen the fight in a min tho.

You might be right breh


iirc, Tszyu DID low blow him first, and Hatton retailated late in the fight with a low blow of his own

 

[RatherUnique]

You might be right breh


iirc, Tszyu DID low blow him first, and Hatton retailated late in the fight with a low blow of his own

Thought so. Hatton gave him that work. Made him quit the last round. I almost wish Hatton never fought the two best fighters. shyt destroyed him but he could handle everyone else. Dude was just fun to watch. Brawling dudes till they quit and shyt

 

[UnoVon]

comments like this is why i hate the internet.

@ScaryBlackMan you r nothing but a pathetic worthless loser

fukk you and your feelings white boy IDGAF how you feel.

 

[yoyoyo1]

He got repaid by both Pac and Floyd embarrassing him on US soil where all that bar room brawling/wrestling that Hatton did was nullified

oh yeah, he couldn't try that inside fighting and was separated the second his body ever touched floyd's over 50 times in that fight, completely annulling the best part of his game because of sensitive referees that favor their hometown boy

sure showed him

 

[Newzz]

oh yeah, he couldn't try that inside fighting and was separated the second his body ever touched floyd's over 50 times in that fight, completely annulling the best part of his game because of sensitive referees that favor their hometown boy

sure showed him

Pac made him do the though

 

[yoyoyo1]

Pac made him do the though

no one can dispute that, he was shot by then