{"id":202588,"date":"2025-10-10T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202588\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:03:09","slug":"ricky-hatton-funeral-live-liam-gallagher-among-stars-attending-service-at-manchester-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/202588\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton funeral live: Liam Gallagher among stars attending service at Manchester Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hatton&#8217;s &#8216;popularity eclipsed everything&#8217; &#8211; boxing commentatorpublished at 12:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:41 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/b8c569ca-4d12-49b0-a028-ec782391d631.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Jonny Humphries<br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sky Sports boxing commentator Adam Smith was also in tears as he gave a eulogy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were smiles from those listening outside as he joked Hatton was \u201conce upon a time not good enough to play for his beloved Man City\u201d before adding that he was \u201can absolutely shocking carpet fitter\u201d. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he was a \u201cfantastic fighter\u201d and his \u201cpopularity eclipsed everything\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith\u2019s voice wavered with emotion as he described how Hatton took his losses extremely hard, because he felt he would \u201clet you all down, which I find heartbreaking\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI will forever love him, his fights, his friendship, his fun, his adoration of life. What a ride it was,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is, there was and only ever will be one Ricky Hatton.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crowd applauded as the speech ends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A boxing pad in the hearse carrying the coffin of Ricky Hatton arriving at Manchester Cathedral.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/f1431576-bdb5-4150-9102-3a781739a37a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1421\" height=\"883\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hatton&#8217;s &#8216;popularity eclipsed everything&#8217; &#8211; boxing commentatorpublished at 12:41 BST 12:41 BST Jonny HumphriesBBC News Sky Sports boxing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-202588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}