Boxing: Hatton quits again after comeback defeat
Former world champion Ricky Hatton announced his second retirement from boxing after his comeback bout against Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Senchenko ended in defeat on Saturday.
Former world champion Ricky Hatton announced his second retirement from boxing after his comeback bout against Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Senchenko ended in defeat on Saturday.
Former world champion Ricky Hatton suffered a heart-breaking return to the ring on Saturday when he was defeated by Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Senchenko.
Ricky Hatton is set for a night of tears, win or lose, when the former world champion returns to the ring on Saturday after a three-and-a-half year retirement.
Ricky Hatton has pledged to keep his emotions in check when the British boxer makes his comeback against Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Senchenko on Saturday.
LONDON—Britain’s former world welterweight champion Ricky Hatton admitted on Thursday that his brutal defeat at the hands of Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao drove him to the brink of suicide. Hatton, who retired in July, was demolished inside just two rounds by Pacquiao in Las Vegas in May 2009, a fierce battering which caused his life [...]
Before he came to Manila last week, Mexican boxing great Juan Manuel Marquez was scored by an American sportswriter for playing it blind and dumb.
A rematch between pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao and Britain’s former IBO junior welterweight champion Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton is on tap but not in the ring. It’s a one-on-one in darts.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s persistent and irritating claims that he hasn’t agreed to fight pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao because Pacquiao refuses to take the random blood tests is nothing short of a calculated move to size up the Filipino before agreeing to face him in a fight that the world wants to see. He isn’t as [...]
The sleeper of a bout between Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley turned out to be a pay-per-view blockbuster.
LAS VEGAS—For Shane Mosley, there will be no need to go to the judges’ scorecards when he tangles with Manny Pacquiao for the World Boxing Organization welterweight crown on Saturday. The former three-division world champion believes the fight will end by knockout. With him standing, he insists. According to Mosley, even at 39, there’s still [...]
MANILA—When Shane Mosley was tapped to be the next opponent of Manny Pacquiao, the boxing world reacted with mixed emotions. Mostly, people thought that it was too late in Mosley’s career to square up with the world’s best. The concern focused on how dangerous facing a warrior like Pacquiao would be for Mosley. Several weeks [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Manny Pacquiao said Tuesday he feels “sad” for former IBO light welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, who was seen sniffing cocaine on video and later admitted he was depressed and troubled. Pacquiao said he hopes Hatton, who has agreed to undergo rehabilitation, will change his ways. “With great power comes great responsibility, and if you don’t [...]
