Hatton cried before Pacquiao bout

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  1. roversbowers

    roversbowers Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Former boxer Ricky Hatton has revealed how he broke down two weeks before his final fight against Manny Pacquiao.
    The 33-year-old believes his pre-fight camp did not prepare him properly.
    "I had peaked too soon, everyone in the camp could see I needed a rest. There was one day when one of my sparring partners knocked me on my backside," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
    "I came out of the ring, sat on the steps and put a towel over my head and I just started sobbing and crying."
    He continued: "They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god it is the truest.

    All this was two weeks before you fight the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world."
    After turning professional in 1997, 'The Hitman', as Hatton became known, went on to dominate the light-welterweight division with his most notable victory at that weight coming in 2005 against IBF champion Kostya Tszyu.
    In 2006, Hatton became a two-weight world champion after he defeated Puerto Rican Luis Collazo to take the WBA welterweight world title, and he followed that victory by beating Juan Urango to reclaim his IBF light-welterweight title.
    A sensational fourth-round knockout of Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas further increased Hatton's popularity and helped set up his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr in December 2007.

    Hatton split from long-term trainer Billy Graham after being beaten by Mayweather and returned to the ring with victories over Juan Lazcano and Paulie Malignaggi in 2008 before taking on the world's pound-for-pound best fighter Pacquiao in 2009.
    It was a bout that proved too much for Hatton, who was knocked down twice in the first round before being knocked out cold in the second.
    The Hyde boxer retired after that defeat, setting up his own promoting business, but suffered heavily from depression that got to such a stage he considered ending his own life.
    "I definitely contemplated suicide," he added. "It was over a long period of time I'd go out, have a night out, come home and I'd be getting the Stanley knife out.
    "I'd be sat there with a Stanley knife going 'go on, do it, go on, do it'.
    "And I never did, but it eats away at you. Who knows one day I might have turned up and gone ahead with it.
    "But it was getting most weeks I'd find myself sat on the settee at stupid o'clock in the morning thinking 'go on just do it'.
    "I'm sure people have started off the same way and sadly done it. Thankfully through the support of my family, my girlfriend and everything like that it never got to the stage where I actually went through with it."

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    interesting read
     
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  2. prelude

    prelude Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The only sport where Ricky can beat Manny is dart.
     
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  3. Magges

    Magges Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I guess he cried afterwards, too. Atleast after he woke up
     
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  4. Imperial1

    Imperial1 VIP Member Full Member

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    Thats what he gets for doing Billy Grahm Dirty and hiring Mayweather !
     
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  5. Flash Jab

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    Okay, Ricky, we get it.

    He sounds so much like a desperate man trying to prove he's alright now.
     
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  6. Arcane

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    Hatton is a proven *****, Pacquiao KO2 prime Hatton :bart
     
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  7. Emeritus

    Emeritus Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I used to like Ricky but this new cry baby Ricky really annoys me.

    So you got K.O'd twice DEAL WITH IT!

    You are rich beyond your wildest dreams and have had a life what most people would die for......Calm the f0ck down with all this suicide B.S

    Pu55y!

    /rant over!
     
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  8. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Hatton just can't help himself.If no one pays attention to him he cries to the press.Ricky,you fat ****,it's over.Deal with it.
     
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  9. sdot

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    damn you guys are brutal. I was a hatton fan, and its unfortunate to hear he wanted to kill himself after the pac fight. A lot of boxers get messed up pretty bad when they bow out.
     
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  10. Undisputed520

    Undisputed520 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Shows you what a true competitor Hatton was. He really loved the sport and tried his absolute hardest to the be the best in the world. You can have a 100 mil in the bank, but to work your whole life to be the best and come up a little short is a tough thing to face.
     
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  11. Imperial1

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    I would never want anyone to take his or her life but u can't treat people like they way he did with his old trainers and expect no consequences .
     
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  12. DDDUUDDDEE

    DDDUUDDDEE Undisputed Ambien (taker) Full Member

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    Boohoo. I wish I could get beat up by the p4p top 2 fighters in the world and be set for life, instead of dealing with my **** day in and out and being virtually broke almost constantly. Deal with it you whiny *****.
     
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  13. oli

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    Yeah. Had millions in the bank. Fans all over the country. Nice family. Young son. Hot fiancée. Girlfriend on the side. Businesses that he owned. Cushy retirement job at Sky Sports

    Yeah can see what he means. I wouldn't wanna live anymore with all that either.

    As for overtraining well that's just another one straight from the Ricky Hatton book of excuses.
     
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  14. Shearsie

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    Couldn't have said it better myself - harden up, Ricky, you little sook.

    3 years later and still trotting out the same excuses for his beating at the hands of Manny Pac? Let it go, mate.
     
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  15. Sandokan32

    Sandokan32 Active Member Full Member

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    Since being KTFO by Pac, Hatton has been making excuse after excuse. He wasn´t this depressed after Floyd. It was Pac who made him quit boxing.
     
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