{"id":170562,"date":"2025-09-26T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170562\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:40:07","slug":"ricky-hattons-manager-wants-to-get-the-truth-out-after-finding-body-boxing-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/170562\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton’s manager ‘wants to get the truth out’ after finding body | Boxing | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricky Hatton’s manager, Paul Speak, has spoken of his “shock and confusion” after discovering the lifeless body of the former world champion<\/a> at his Greater Manchester home earlier this month. Speak, who had worked with Hatton for nearly three decades, was due to take him to the airport for a flight to Dubai when he made the tragic discovery.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Boxing News magazine, he recalled: “The lights weren’t on, which I thought was strange. I thought he’d overslept, but it’s not unusual. People do oversleep. So, I went inside \u2013 I have a key \u2013 shouting, ‘Rick, Rick, wake up!’ I heard music coming from upstairs, so I went upstairs… I took a look at him… I had to take some time to process it.<\/p>\n

“I was in a state of shock and confusion and loss and many more emotions. Then I called the police and the ambulance. But I firmly believe he didn’t intend to do it. It’s for the coroner to determine, but he had it all to live for.”<\/p>\n

Speak insisted that Hatton was “in a really good place” before his death at the age of 46 and had been making a lot of plans.<\/p>\n

He added: “He’d arranged to take his daughters to see Oasis next week. He was planning to go to Thailand for the WBC convention and a holiday after his fight. He’d just booked a flight to Tenerife for Christmas.<\/p>\n

“I want to get the truth out, otherwise people will just speculate.<\/p>\n

“There’s been a lot of rubbish written about Ricky and his parents, but he’d seen his mum just last week; gave her a big hug and some love.<\/p>\n

“He was going to see his dad after getting back from Dubai.<\/p>\n

“His daughters had never seen him box, so he was excited for that. So many things for him to live for \u2013 he was in a really good place.”<\/p>\n

Ricky had previously spoken candidly about his mental health battles and Paul confessed his mate’s death wouldn’t have been “as big a shock” if it had occurred a decade earlier.<\/p>\n

He explained: “If this was 10 years ago, it wouldn’t have been as big a shock as it was.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been with Ricky to the very highest mountains in boxing to the lowest chasm in life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton’s manager, Paul Speak, has spoken of his “shock and confusion” after discovering the lifeless body of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,47675,1920,6492,97026,111362,111363,21931,85],"class_list":["post-170562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-section","tag-boxing-news","tag-ricky-hatton","tag-ricky-hatton-death","tag-ricky-hatton-manager","tag-ricky-hatton-truth","tag-sport-section","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}