{"id":466594,"date":"2026-02-10T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466594\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:03:08","slug":"campbell-hatton-cousins-to-honour-ricky-hatton-in-dubai-boxing-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/466594\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Hatton, cousins to honour Ricky Hatton in Dubai boxing event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/59596_2956268_hathdf_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Campbell Hatton, cousins to honour Ricky Hatton in Dubai boxing event\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"uploaded-jshare-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Campbell Hatton, cousins to honour Ricky Hatton in Dubai boxing event<\/p>\n<p>Campbell Hatton will participate in a fight at a special event held to pay tribute to his father, Ricky Hatton who passed away last year at the age of 46.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell is scheduled to compete on the undercard of a boxing event in Dubai on April 11 which was originally planned to feature his father.<\/p>\n<p>His cousins, Jack and Lola Hatton, children of Ricky&#8217;s brother Matthew will also fight in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Both teenagers are in the early stages of their amateur careers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking forward to getting back in the ring in memory of my dad out in Dubai,&#8221; Campbell said on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Ricky, also known by nicknames such as &#8220;The Hitman&#8221; ended his professional boxing career with a knockout defeat in 2012 but made a brief comeback to the sport in 2022 for an exhibition match against Marco Antonio Barrera.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, he announced his plans to make a comeback in December in Dubai, marking what would have been his first professional fight after being retired for 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>The date was rearranged and Sheffield\u2019s former welterweight king Kell Brook will now fight Eisa Al Dah as the main bout.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, members of the Hatton family will take part in the undercard fight.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell retired from\u00a0boxing\u00a0in 2024 after suffering back-to-back losses to James Flint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campbell Hatton, cousins to honour Ricky Hatton in Dubai boxing event Campbell Hatton will participate in a fight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-466594","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\/466594","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=466594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}