News - Ricky Hatton

IBO welterweight champion Lovemore Ndou (47-11-2, 31 KOs) barely retained title against Matthew Hatton (37-4-2, 14 KOs) on Friday night at the Fenton Manor Sports Complex in Stoke, England. With older brother Ricky Hatton looking on from ringside, judges scored the bout read more ...

Ricky Hatton has been inactive since the May two-round KO loss to Manny Pacquiao. Hatton has been concentrating on promotional company, Hatton Promotions. In a few interviews, Hatton said that he no longer had the itch or desire to fight again. During the last few weeks, watching some of his fighters win - and getting a huge reaction during a few off-boxing events - have changed his mind. Hatton now says the itch to fight again is back. He will consider a ring return in 2010 read more ...

Ricky Hatton doesn't deny it. He was very intimidated when he first met the 7-foot giant, WBA heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev. He even became nervous for his good friend, David Haye, who challenges Valuev for the title on November 7. Even with Valuev's huge advantage in height and 100-pound edge in weight, Hatton says Haye is too fast and too skilled. He doesn't see Valuev being polished enough to win read more ...

WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez has no problem traveling to Manchester to challenge junior welterweight Ricky Hatton, says Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya read more ...

Ricky Hatton has come out swinging at the recent comments that were made by Floyd Mayweather Jr. Hatton was upset over some of the recent comments that Mayweather made about ending his career. Hatton suffered his first loss with a ten-round stoppage to Mayweather in December of 2007 read more ...

Ricky Hatton is very busy nowadays thinking as a promoter rather than a boxer and Ricky is thoroughly taken up with his new endeavor. “I’ve had my share of titles in the ring, but now I want to start producing world champions as a promoter,” says Ricky. One such young man that Hatton sees as a promising addition to his new promotional company is British middleweight champion Matthew Macklin (24-2, 17 KOs), a former sparring partner read more ...

It has been three months since Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton (45-2, 32 KOs) lost inside two rounds to Manny Pacquiao at the MGM in Las Vegas. Until now, the 30-year-old former IBF, WBA and IBO light welterweight and WBA welterweight champion has been tight lipped about his boxing future and discussion about the devastating loss to Pacquiao in May read more ...

According to a recent report in The Sunday Mirror, Ricky Hatton's recent stay in the hospital was due to an illness brought on by his wild lifestyle that is filled with very poor eating habits and long nights at the pub. Hatton, who has a heart murmur, was told by doctors that he needed to stay away from booze and stay on a good diet - or his life could be at risk. During his stay at the hospital read more ...

It seems Ricky Hatton may take the Shane Mosley route in terms of sitting back and waiting for a major fight to come along. Recently WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan and his handlers seemed to have some interest in calling Hatton out for an all-British battle, but Ricky said there was no interest on his end read more ...

According to father and trainer Ray Hatton, former champion Ricky Hatton should have withdrawn from his May 2 bout with Manny Pacquiao. Hatton was knocked out in two rounds. Ray says the training camp for the fight was so chaotic that Ricky should have pulled out and postponed the fight to another date. There were pre-fight rumors that trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. was at odds with Ricky and assistant trainer Lee Beard read more ...