Belfast’s Eamonn Magee recalls the night in Manchester when he became first boxer to knock down Ricky Hatton

Eamonn Magee shares a post-fight drink with Ricky Hatton after their 2002 fight in Manchester

The details in Eamonn Magee’s battered head are fuzzy now but the picture tells its own grisly story.

In the foreground, Magee, still in fighting pose an hour after throwing his last punch of a raucous night – right hand clenched, left hand clasped around a can of cider.