{"id":203234,"date":"2025-10-10T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203234\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T15:28:08","slug":"ricky-hatton-funeral-live-updates-and-stream-as-rooney-pays-respects-boxing-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203234\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton funeral LIVE Updates and stream as Rooney pays respects | Boxing | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paying tribute to Hatton on Sky Sports, Golden Boy matchmaker Robert Diaz said: &#8220;You have one of the greatest to represent. Not only represent Manchester but also represent [the] UK, and that was Ricky.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve said it many times, those who knew Ricky, you got what you see. He was real, he wasn&#8217;t the celebrity, he wasn&#8217;t the famous boxer, he was one of the people, and I think that&#8217;s what made him special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To me, personally, growing up in the Julio Cesar Chavez, Oscar De La Hoya eras, Canelo now, I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll ever see&#8230;And that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so fitting &#8211; there&#8217;s always and will always only be one Ricky Hatton.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paying tribute to Hatton on Sky Sports, Golden Boy matchmaker Robert Diaz said: &#8220;You have one of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,47675,126572,5752,6492,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-203234","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-boxing-section","12":"tag-funeral-updates","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-ricky-hatton","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203234","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=203234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}