{"id":42908,"date":"2025-08-04T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42908\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:26:03","slug":"ricky-hatton-names-the-toughest-fight-of-his-career-and-it-wasnt-against-mayweather-or-pacquiao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/42908\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton Names The Toughest Fight Of His Career And It Wasn’t Against Mayweather Or Pacquiao"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ricky Hatton<\/a> has fought legends like Floyd Mayweather<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, but neither gave him his toughest night\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

The Manchester man is a British boxing hero who famously took huge travelling support to Las Vegas<\/a> for his fights against those two fellow Hall of Famers, both of whom knocked him out.<\/p>\n

However, speaking to Jim White and Simon Jordan on talkSPORT,<\/a> Hatton admitted that in fact his hardest night\u2019s work was a 12-rounder with Luis Collazo for the WBA Welterweight title in May 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was my toughest fight. I mean, getting beat by Pacquiao like I did was very tough to come to terms with and Floyd Mayweather was just technically so good. From a physical point of view, [Collazo was tougher]. I never made fights easy for myself. I was always going to have it out with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

At 5ft 6in, Hatton was not a big super lightweight, so moving up a division put him at even more of a disadvantage, which is why his coach, Billy Graham, told him not to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I wanted to do what my heroes had done. I wanted to try to become a world champion in two weight divisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hatton scored a knockdown in the first 10 seconds but Collazo rose and fought hard to take it to the cards.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was only the knockdown that won it. The people that I could bully at 10 stone, when I got close, I could push them, shove them all. I couldn\u2019t do it at 10st 7lbs. I hit him, and the shots just bounced off him. I went to shove him back and he didn\u2019t move. I thought, \u2018Oh this is going to be a long night.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the worst after I\u2019ve felt. I had hot sweats, shaky, shivering and I couldn\u2019t even go to the afterparty I was in such a bad way. Every time he hit me \u2013 Floyd Mayweather wasn\u2019t a big puncher, he was technically unreal \u2013 but [Collazo] was a big punching southpaw, and every time he hit me, oh my lord!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hatton retired in 2012 but is back in December against fellow 46-year-old Eisa Al Dah in Dubai.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton has fought legends like Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, but neither gave him his toughest night\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-42908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42908","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=42908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}