{"id":217821,"date":"2025-10-16T13:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217821\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:35:07","slug":"former-boxing-champ-ricky-hattons-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/217821\/","title":{"rendered":"Former boxing champ Ricky Hatton’s cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton died by suicide and was found hanged at his home, according to Sky News<\/a>, which cited a South Manchester coroner\u2019s court hearing that revealed an initial cause of death on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Hatton, who became a world champion in the light-welterweight and welterweight classes and was set to attempt a comeback during a December bout, died last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was 46 years old.<\/p>\n

Paul Speak, Hatton\u2019s manager, reportedly discovered him \u201cunresponsive\u201d in his room Sept. 14 after Hatton didn\u2019t attend an event the previous day and after Speak arrived to drive him to the airport for a flight to Dubai, according to The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ricky Hatton is pictured during a June 2007 fight. Getty Images<\/p>\n

There will be a full inquest March 20 following the initial 10-minute hearing Thursday, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n

In a statement posted to Instagram following his death, Hatton\u2019s family and team wrote that he was in a \u201cgood place\u201d<\/a> despite \u201cwell-documented struggles\u201d \u2014 with depression, alcohol and drugs \u2014 and was looking forward to his attempted comeback in Dubai at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was excited for the future; his bag was packed ready to go to Dubai to promote a comeback fight and he was planning a celebration in Dubai of which his beloved girls Millie and Fearne were to be the centre of,\u201d his family and team wrote. \u201cHe was excited that they would see him fight for the first time in person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans lined the streets to pay tribute to former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton at his funeral. AP<\/p>\n

Hatton\u2019s family last saw him two days before his death, according to The Athletic.<\/p>\n

Known as \u201cThe Hitman,\u201d Hatton hadn\u2019t fought professionally since 2012, but during his 15-year career, he collected a 45-3 record with 32 wins by knockout and participated in plenty of high-profile fights \u2014 including against Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which both ended with losses.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

A funeral was held Friday at the Manchester Cathedral<\/a>, with fans lining the streets to pay tribute to someone that British boxer Amir Khan described to the Associated Press as \u201cone of the biggest names in boxing from Manchester and the country as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ricky Hatton (l.) is pictured during a March 2009 fight. Action Images via Reuters<\/p>\n

Ricky Hatton is pictured in 2018. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Tributes also poured in from around the boxing world after his death was announced last month, with Tyson Fury writing on Instagram that Hatton was a \u201clegend\u201d and Khan posting about the importance of talking about mental health.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes the hardest fight happens in silence, in the mind,\u201d Khan wrote in his post, in part. \u201cMental health isn\u2019t weakness. It\u2019s part of being human. And we must talk about it. We must reach out. We must lean on each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis, you can call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org for free and confidential crisis counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former boxing world champion Ricky Hatton died by suicide and was found hanged at his home, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,29576,1208,5752,85,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-217821","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-celebrity-deaths","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217821","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=217821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}