News - Ricky Hatton

The WBA yesterday ordered WBA welterweight champion Ricky Hatton to defend against Oktay Urkal within 120 days. The 36-year-old Urkal is #1 in the WBA rankings and the mandatory challenger. Hatton won the title last Saturday in Boston by unanimous decision dethroning title defender Luis Collazo. In the WBA's congratulatory letter to Hatton, VP Gilberto Jesus Mendoza listed September 10 as the deadline for Hatton-Urkal to take place read more ...

Fresh off of capturing the third world championship of his career, the new WBA welterweight champion, Ricky "Hitman" Hatton (41-0, 30 KOs) and the former champion, Luis Collazo (26-2, 12 KOs) took part in a post fight press conference for the media in attendance at the TD Bank North Garden, in Boston, MA on Saturday night. Neither fighter was at a loss for words, including their promoters, Arthur Pelullo of Banner Promotions representing read more ...

Unbeaten former junior welterweight Ricky Hatton (41-0, 30 KOs) stepped up to welterweight and won the WBA title, dethroning Luis Collazo (26-2, 12 KOs) by unanimious decision Saturday night at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, Mass. Although Hatton dropped Collazo in the first ten seconds of the bout, the matchup was a sytlistic nightmare for "The Hitman" and many rounds could have gone either way. Hatton tried to crowd Collazo early on read more ...

Both Luis Collazo and Ricky Hatton made weight today at the 147lb limit. In the IBF featherweight title fight, Valdemir Pereira scaled in at 126 while challenger Eric Aiken weighed 125 read more ...

An agreement has just been reached between Sauerland Event and Fight Academy that will allow WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo's fight against Ricky Hatton to be santioned as an official WBA title fight. To date, the WBA has withheld sanctioning of the fight because Collazo's mandatory defense against #1 ranked contender Oktay Urkal is due. However, moments ago an agreement was reached between Sauerland Event general manager read more ...

Ricky Hatton has decided to relinquish his WBA super lightweight title. The unbeaten Hatton previously gave up his IBF 140lb belt. It is hoped by the Hatton camp that this will pave the way for Hatton to face WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo unencumbered by boxing politics next week in Boston. The move is also intended to eliminate any Hatton involvement in a lawsuit filed by Souleymane M'baye against the WBA. However, despite the read more ...

WBA welterweight champion Luis Collazo, like heavyweight champions Lennox Lewis, John Ruiz and many other world champions before him, has returned to the Pocono Mountains in the state of Pennsylvania to train to fight WBA super lightweight champion Ricky "The Hitman" Hatton (40-0, 30 KOs) at the TD Banknorth Garden in Boston on May 13. read more ...

Fans exiting the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 12, 2005, following Jermain Taylor's second points over Bernard Hopkins were unaware that they'd nearly witnessed an even bigger fight. Just minutes before Hopkins made his ring walk, a pair of pound-for-pound talents very nearly 'got into it' at ringside. The fighters in question were Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Junior read more ...

- Is there any added pressure coming into this fight with this fight being an enormous fight? LC: No I am not under pressure. I think if anything Ricky will be under pressure with this being his first fight in America and with him trying to win the fans in America. I am going to be cooler than the other side of the pillow on May 13th read more ...

It's finally official. IBF/WBA jr. welterweight world champion Ricky “Hitman” Hatton, 40-0 with 30 knockouts, of Manchester, England, will move up in weight and challenge WBA welterweight world champion Luis Collazo, 26-1 with 12 knockouts, of Brooklyn, New York. The world championship fight card was announced Monday at a press conference in Boston. The event will take place on May 13 at the TD Banknorth Garden read more ...