{"id":136792,"date":"2025-09-14T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136792\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:32:08","slug":"ricky-hatton-dead-boxing-champion-ricky-hatton-found-dead-at-home-aged-46-latest-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/136792\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton dead: Boxing champion Ricky Hatton found dead at home aged 46 &#8211; latest updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A Manchester lad&#8217;: Ricky united a city divided by football &#8211; BBC&#8217;s Hugh Ferrispublished at 13:12 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:12 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to BBC News, BBC Sport Centre&#8217;s Hugh Ferris says Hatton was a sporting icon, not only in what he achieved, but for the city in which he lived, Manchester. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester, a city divided by its two football teams, United and City, was united by the boxer, Ferris explains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was able to unite a city in support of his efforts in the boxing ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, he was an &#8220;absolute die hard blue&#8221; &#8211; also known as a fan of Manchester City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton was also friends with the Gallagher brothers, otherwise known as Oasis, fellow Mancunian legends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Outside of the ring, &#8220;he was a Manchester lad&#8221; who went out with friends, Ferris continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here in the city of Manchester, and beyond throughout the world, he was an incredibly popular man.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Manchester lad&#8217;: Ricky united a city divided by football &#8211; BBC&#8217;s Hugh Ferrispublished at 13:12 BST 13:12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-136792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}