{"id":218779,"date":"2025-10-16T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218779\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T22:34:07","slug":"former-boxing-champion-ricky-hattons-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218779\/","title":{"rendered":"Former boxing champion Ricky Hatton\u2019s cause of death revealed \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former boxing champion Ricky Hatton\u2019s cause of death was revealed as suicide by the coroner during a hearing held in England on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The details surrounding his death were part of a formal inquest after Hatton, 46, was found unresponsive by his manager Paul Speak on Sept. 14 after the British boxer failed to attend an event where he was scheduled to make an appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe provisional cause of death is given as hanging,\u201d Manchester South senior coroner Alison Mutch said in a statement (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/46612556\/ricky-hatton-died-suicide-coroner-court-told\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>) during a brief 10-minute hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Authorities stated that the last time family members saw Hatton came two days earlier on Sept. 12 and he was reportedly \u201cwell.\u201d After missing his scheduled event, Speak showed up to Hatton\u2019s house to take him to the airport for a flight to Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the time, Hatton had planned for a comeback fight in December after last fighting in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Family members said that Hatton was \u201cin a good place\u201d prior to his death as he prepared for his comeback fight while also spending time with his children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Known as \u201cThe Hitman\u201d in the ring, Hatton was a beloved figure in the boxing community for his aggressive style and entertaining fights throughout his career. Hatton captured titles in two different weight classes while amassing an impressive record before retiring from the sport in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He racked up a perfect 43-0 record before tasting defeat for the first time when he suffered a knockout loss to Floyd Mayweather back in 2007. Hatton then scored two wins including a finish of Paulie Malignaggi before he fell to Manny Pacquiao in 2009.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, boxing champion Tyson Fury and soccer star Wayne Rooney all attended Hatton\u2019s funeral in October with thousands more lining the streets to pay their respects to the fallen boxing star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former boxing champion Ricky Hatton\u2019s cause of death was revealed as suicide by the coroner during a hearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,786,1347,785,85],"class_list":["post-218779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218779","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=218779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}