{"id":202849,"date":"2025-10-10T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202849\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T11:54:09","slug":"ricky-hatton-funeral-live-stars-among-mourners-arriving-as-service-begins-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202849\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton funeral live: Stars among mourners arriving as service begins in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postpublished at 10:34 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/45357c83-7bce-4560-a215-e156ccdb5140.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bobbie Jackson<br \/>BBC Sport at Manchester Cathedral<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Matthew Macklin is among the first from the boxing world to arrive at the Cathedral. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-time middleweight title challenger came through the ranks alongside Ricky Hatton and trained with him at Billy Graham\u2019s gym. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also both fought on the same cards at the MEN Arena &#8211; now known as the AO Arena &#8211; in 2002 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former cruiserweight world champion Tony Bellew has also arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bellew paid tribute to Ricky Hatton when the news broke of his death last month, saying \u201cheaven has gained an angel with boxing gloves\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postpublished at 10:34 BST 10:34 BST Bobbie JacksonBBC Sport at Manchester Cathedral Matthew Macklin is among the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-202849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202849","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=202849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}