RIP Ricky Hatton

Pretty obvious that he killed himself. Sad, but the writing was on the wall for a long time

 

This one got me, I remember watching his first few fights. Only one Ricky Hatton.

 

That was my first thought, especially when how he died was never mentioned despite it dominating news coverage for about an hour

 

"how to cover this breaking news event without breaking any fucking news"

Corporate wants you to solve this problem.

 

Yeah, same.

MTF

 

Pretty sure he passed away peacefully in his sleep due to natural causes. RiP

 

Causes that were natural to drugs,drink,apnea,obesia etc, perhaps.
I feel sorry for his parents.

 

RIP

Seemed like he'd be a fun guy off camera and i don't just mean the partying way.

 

He was 46, not 48.

Doesn't happen very often, but I think all of the takes above me are fair and defensible. He was one of mY favorite fighters. Had the Duran way of being able to blow up between fights and then get down to weight and have endless killer stamina.

Not an all-time great, but probably would be considered one if he had beaten Floyd or Pacquiao.

 

Rip champ, when my dad told me, I haven't seen him so upset in years.

 

he had 3 kids too :(

 

I dunno cos wouldn’t he have watched the fight first?

 

RIP. Very sad news.

 

All bullshit aside he'd long since given up that. He probably felt boxing cost him more than he got out of it.

 

Damn this hurt hearing about Hatton’s passing. RIP Hitman Hatton

 

I should imagine he'll get a decent mention on motd tonight.....

 

As I said, he was probably found hanging, sadly...

 

It does for the overwhelming majority. That's why people watch.

 

Rip Rick...reminds me of when my old English bulldog passed. Except you know he didn’t really die he just refused to get up from the couch for three days and we thought that was it. Turns out he was just lazy.

 

Supposedly, he'd been planning a comeback.

 

R.I.P.

My second favorite fighter of this century (behind Morales.)

 

From the comments on here and YouTube there seems to be a great divide.

01. He killed himself. The warning signs were obvious.

02. He had a new found energy for the sport with his son boxing. He was training again. He was planning a comeback.

Two extremely different views. Nothing in between.

 

2 masked 1

 

The majority of suicides are impulsive acts. He may very well have found a new energy, but had a bad episode at the wrong time when he had nobody around him at that particular moment.

 

It's possible he was planning a comeback, didn't commit suicide, died in his sleep or whatever.

But we'll have to wait for autopsy etc.

 

Years of cocaine abuse is terrible for your heart. So yeah, there's always a non-suicide possibility. I'm pretty sure it was suicide though.

 

Plus the weight issues. Guy has had Christine Onassis style weight issues for 20 plus years. Up and down like a yo yo. Weakens the heart.

 

You admitted to being 5'9" 260 a few years ago before you lost weight. I'm pretty sure Hatton never saw numbers like that.

 

I was as high as 278 I think.....

But if you read what I wrote, you'd have seen that I wasn't strictly refering to his weight per se (which he said peaked at 216) but rather two decades of severe rapid fluctuations in weight.

Rapid gains, rapid losses, repeatedly, for two decades.

Then consider the genesis of the gains ...alcohol, rubbish food.

I'm also about 3 inches taller than Ricky and just naturally bigger. I can afford to be heavier.