Ricky Hatton RIP

Bit pissed and watching reruns of Ricky's fights. Excuse the late night ramble.

That Hyde lad gave us some great nights to remember, but nothing comes close to the Vegas trip for the Mayweather fight. Imagine your best away trip and multiply it by 10 then add a few days to it. City everywhere. Then add to it, lads from London, Rags, Scousers, Scots...banter off the scale. No mither, it was all about the Hitman. And that was just the weigh-in. Loads of working class lads got to go on a trip that would stay with them forever. Loans and credit card repayments would've taken years to clear, but the memories would last a lifetime.

6 of us paid $700 each for hospitality and a ticket in the gods. Michael Buffer made a 2 min appearance, did his let's get ready to rumble bit and fucked off. But we muscled in and got our piccie with him on one of them throwaway Kodak cameras. Had another pic with Joan Collins at the weigh-in. Another with Denzel Washington pre-fight at a bar. A pic of my mate with Cuba Gooding Jnr on his right and Donald Fucking Trump on his left. Another with Freddie Roach, the legendary trainer. Another with De La Hoya. Ballooning around with A-listers and the greats of boxing. To cap it all a priceless pic of RH and Jenn at the Mandalay after the fight.

Day after the fight we went out as Elvis's in shit suits. A bunch of all-American frat boys on a bachelor party bumped into us. Excited as fuck to meet a bunch of crazy Brits. One of 'em asked for a photo so we swapped cameras to take pics of each group. Fucked off and got shitfaced.

Got home. Got the film developed. 40-odd pics of a bunch of Yanks having the shittest night imaginable and our trip of a lifetime pics no doubt thrown in the trash somewhere in the States.

I reckon Ricky might mind that funny as fuck.

RIP Ricky.
 
Did anyone see pep or phil or noel there, on the clips I saw you saw plenty of boxers and Liam plus other people but not 1 clip of those 3, did I miss it or they didn't go, and if they didn't go why not.
 
Had the pleasure of meeting Ricky a few times.
Coming out of Wembley after winning another final, chatting to him and Danny Jackson.
Two guys coming the other way, one of them spots Ricky and shouts “there’s Ricky Hatton!”to his mate, “Quick, get a photo with him!”
The other guy runs over puts his arm around Danny and says “Ricky! You’re the greatest…can I get a photo.”

Ricky sharp as ever, laughing, carries on walking and says “go on Ricky lad give em the photo.”

Rest easy Ricky
 
Cessna said:
As a Norwegian, I do not undertand what Mr Hatton meant for you / Manchester / further. When I saw Manchester United player applaude him, it made me realize that it means more than City vs the rest. For everyone who wants to talk, there are people around you. Talk to us.
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Nice words them mate! Every Manc (Blue or Red) was so proud of him and could relate to him!

He is one only a very few people who is universally loved by City and United fans, the only other two i can think of are Dennis Law and Brian Kidd!
 
Jimmieblue said:
That Adam Smith eulogy … I honestly have never heard such a deeply moving tribute to anyone in my life. An here’s the thing…everything he said about the man was true, ask anyone in Hyde who knew him. If we can learn anything, it shows how hard it is to maintain authenticity and real fame, particularly for working class people.
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He was obviously a true friend who Hatton could trust and confide in.

It made me smile when he said the following:

He (Adam Smith) got married the weekend after the Kostya Tazu fight and never expected Ricky to turn up, despite accepting the invitation because he was in Vegas celebrating. Ricky obviously didn't let his mate down and turned up (probably a bit worse for wear ha)!

He also said that Hatton asked him to tell him and take his belts off him if being world champion ever changed him as a person, as Adam Smith said, he didn't change one little bit!
 
Dodge said:
Bit pissed and watching reruns of Ricky's fights. Excuse the late night ramble.

That Hyde lad gave us some great nights to remember, but nothing comes close to the Vegas trip for the Mayweather fight. Imagine your best away trip and multiply it by 10 then add a few days to it. City everywhere. Then add to it, lads from London, Rags, Scousers, Scots...banter off the scale. No mither, it was all about the Hitman. And that was just the weigh-in. Loads of working class lads got to go on a trip that would stay with them forever. Loans and credit card repayments would've taken years to clear, but the memories would last a lifetime.

6 of us paid $700 each for hospitality and a ticket in the gods. Michael Buffer made a 2 min appearance, did his let's get ready to rumble bit and fucked off. But we muscled in and got our piccie with him on one of them throwaway Kodak cameras. Had another pic with Joan Collins at the weigh-in. Another with Denzel Washington pre-fight at a bar. A pic of my mate with Cuba Gooding Jnr on his right and Donald Fucking Trump on his left. Another with Freddie Roach, the legendary trainer. Another with De La Hoya. Ballooning around with A-listers and the greats of boxing. To cap it all a priceless pic of RH and Jenn at the Mandalay after the fight.

Day after the fight we went out as Elvis's in shit suits. A bunch of all-American frat boys on a bachelor party bumped into us. Excited as fuck to meet a bunch of crazy Brits. One of 'em asked for a photo so we swapped cameras to take pics of each group. Fucked off and got shitfaced.

Got home. Got the film developed. 40-odd pics of a bunch of Yanks having the shittest night imaginable and our trip of a lifetime pics no doubt thrown in the trash somewhere in the States.

I reckon Ricky might mind that funny as fuck.

RIP Ricky.
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That's terrific........... :-)
 
bluestevei said:
I was just asking a question, and seen as apparently they was big fans of him, why wouldn't they go.
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I did think the same, Pep, Noel and Kompany stood out as people who knew him, spoke highly of him so you'd think they would have been there. Especially Pep, considering it is less than a two minute walk from where he lives. He was in some golf tournament though was he not? Maybe he couldn't get away.

There was still Buzzer, Morrison and Lake there. Possibly more.
 
AK45 said:
I did think the same, Pep, Noel and Kompany stood out as people who knew him, spoke highly of him so you'd think they would have been there. Especially Pep, considering it is less than a two minute walk from where he lives. He was in some golf tournament though was he not? Maybe he couldn't get away.

There was still Buzzer, Morrison and Lake there. Possibly more.
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Dickov & Corrigan.
 
bluestevei said:
I was just asking a question, and seen as apparently they was big fans of him, why wouldn't they go.
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Maybe they weren't invited? I've no idea how these things work, having never been to an invite only funeral. Would people who move in certain circles be invited to apply for an invitation? Would the family just sit down and draw up a list? Be quite easy to overlook someone obvious if that was the case, with everything else going on.

The whole thing is probably a bit of a logistical nightmare to organise, when you're talking about someone as popular as Ricky was.
 
bakerdave76 said:
Perhaps they wanted to pay respect in their own way.
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This. People don't always want/ need to attend a funeral to pay their respects.
I've missed loads over the years for one reason or another.
Also in Peps case ,it's not really about him. and Pep might have thought he'd be taking the spotlight away a bit...no idea ...but I doubt it's a disrespectful thing

In any event ,nowadays,if folk went to every funeral they could they'd be off work every two days

A sign of the times....
 
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dennishasdoneit said:
This. People don't always want/ need to attend a funeral to pay their respects.
I've missed loads over the years for one reason or another.
Also in Peps case ,it's not really about them,and Pep might have thought he'd be taking the spotlight away a bit...no idea ...but I doubt it's a disrespectful thing

In any event ,nowadays,if folk went to every funeral they could they'd be off work every two days

A sign of the times....
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My brother got it right after my mum died.
Some family couldn't make it cos they live thousands of miles away.

He said: "It's what you did for her when she was alive, that was important, not being here for her funeral."

I was gutted I missed a cricket club's stalwarts funeral, but I know that I always sat and had a chat with him every Saturday/Sunday through the season.
So I thought about what my brother said and it made realise the most important part was when he was there every weekend.
I wanted to be there for his son, who I know, but he knew how well I got on with his dad.
 
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