Ricky Hatton RIP

Wow.... I just came across this horrible news..... damn. RIP Mr Hatton. You dared to be great, and actually made it to the mountain top. I am a bit crushed to be honest.

Ricky deserved to be the old fuk in the pub telling tales of his valliant youth. gutted. I never met the man IRL, but I'm holding back tears???
Jesus, when RJJr dies I may have to be on suicide watch.
 
One of the few fighters I ever actively rooted for. I guess he was never able to fully wrangle all of him problems. So young. :(
 
treelo said:
chemicals in the human brain just affect certain people in certain ways

i dont want to sidetrack this, but it would be interesting to see the suicide rate from say 100 years ago to today, or in the past 20-30 years, so much more shit put into foods and additives and stuff which is doing who knows what to everyone, im guessing some people react differently to others, not just suicide but other things as well, autism and gender alignment as well...it just seems a lot more of these things happen now than has ever happened
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life is probably more hopeless today although I would think ever since the industrial age came in, suicide went up. People did die a lot sooner a hundred years ago, so that might skew things. Even still, most of my own personal family didn't make it within 15 years of the average, poor people do a lot of things to shorten their lives. Just look at the great boxers we lost a hundred years ago after a surgery or something like Tiger Flowers, Harry Greb and Stanley Ketchel. Even 50 years ago, lots of Muhammad Ali's opponents died before he even retired, Liston, Bonavena, Banks, Lavorante. Average life expectancy for former pro boxers is 67, below the average.
 
Damn even though he had his struggles, this somehow caught me off guard. Been spending my free time the last few days watching his fights. Condolences to his family and friends. He was a warrior.
 
such a shame that someone who was loved by so many, felt he had so few people he could talk to

life can be lonely, please be nice to those around you, you just never know what they are going through
 
treelo said:
such a shame that someone who was loved by so many, felt he had so few people he could talk to

life can be lonely, please be nice to those around you, you just never know what they are going through
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Yeah.

Coming down from being a world champion to a “civilian” is often too much for these guys.

Apparently Calzaghe was close to going down a similar path, but was able to find the help to prevent it.
 
I kind of fell out with boxing around his height because I got fed up with all the BS decisions and corruption that never got resolved

I kinda followed him a little bit but not in depth. I know he jad the name Ricky Fatton because he blew up between fights, but i see people saying he had demons. By all accounts he seemed pretty nice, what were the other issues? I assume being a brit it was booze and coke...

Either way sucks to hear. Him and Keith Flint died both the same way. RIP.
 
scorpiorising said:
I kind of fell out with boxing around his height because I got fed up with all the BS decisions and corruption that never got resolved

I kinda followed him a little bit but not in depth. I know he jad the name Ricky Fatton because he blew up between fights, but i see people saying he had demons. By all accounts he seemed pretty nice, what were the other issues? I assume being a brit it was booze and coke...

Either way sucks to hear. Him and Keith Flint died both the same way. RIP.
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he had addiction issues, when he lost the fight against Mayweather he was starting to go through a rough patch in his life, starting to not trust his trainer, split up from his kids mum and stopped talking to his parents

it was all just a massive culmination of issues for him and i don't think he ever recovered, he also had some pretty shitty people around him, i used to post on his forum many many years ago when the likes of Pete Postlethwaite did, ad he had a very close knit of friend around him, but the more famous he got he seemed to move on to "other" people "looking after" him


i think he got that famous he started to get exploited, and when the massive paydays and fame started to fade, so did the hangers on
 
Ricky was inducted into the Hall of Fame last year. At least he got to see it happen before he died.
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To honor him last month they flew their flags at half-staff.
 
Boomb said:


Getting hit in the head frequently, can lead to mental health problems.
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His was more his raging alcoholism even during his career. He then went of the rails completely after he ended his career destroying his physical and mental health. Decades of being drunk does that to you. People around him expected this end and expected it this early. Its sad but if you are a 45 year old alcoholic for a long time your body has aged more along the way of an 80year old. I work in medical field and 45-50 year old alcoholics in an elderly home is not that rare. You age decades more.
 
listrahtes said:
His was more his raging alcoholism even during his career. He then went of the rails completely after he ended his career destroying his physical and mental health. Decades of being drunk does that to you. People around him expected this end and expected it this early. Its sad but if you are a 45 year old alcoholic for a long time your body has aged more along the way of an 80year old. I work in medical field and 45-50 year old alcoholics in an elderly home is not that rare. You age decades more.
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Alcohol, coke and likely brain damage.
 
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