Hatton downs 57 pints in 4 days!

[Mike Tyson77]

Go Ricky! Let's drink some pints someday!

[Verstyle]

understood but they are athletes and ricky is now competing with the very best in the world, i cant think of any other athlete that would abuse their bodies in between competition, it has to take its toll. i remember george foreman doing a comentary during a floyd mayweather fight a few years back, he said at this level you cant afford one drink, now i know big george can talk **** sometimes but he's right, in between every fight ricky treats his body like a dustbin and it might just affect longevity, im not a great fan of witter but he's what,34? and hes sharp as hes ever been and he leads a very clean life, and of course the prime example is bernard hopkins. alot of people have gone on about givin the guy a break, he's on holiday, but this is now routine for hatton between fights. boxing is a short career and even shorter if you dont look after yourself, theres plenty of time to get pissed when your done.

I assumed you were talking about just this day when he got drunk,now it seems like you mean the whole time between fights. Well this is sorta correct. But think of it like this, him doing what he's doing has allowed him to become a world champion and to face former champs and elites and have a 44-1 record. Next to ppl that probably havnt smoked or drank in their lives. So I would say he's doing fairly well. Dont ya think.

[nmuburner22]

Reading that bull **** ..then looking at how elite level fighters like Klitscko..Hopkins...Floyd and their routines.....its just sad.

[Bonafide]

Holy crap...and i thought filipinos and mexicans could drink. Thats insane...and still standing ???

[th4l3pr3ch4un]

" omg its gonna catch up with ricky blah blah blah hes ruining hsi career blah blah" hes not ruining anything... hes living his life and at this point he has every right to do so. When the time comes again to fight, he will get back into training and you wont be hearing about all this, dude is a champion no matter what.

[big paulie]

I assumed you were talking about just this day when he got drunk,now it seems like you mean the whole time between fights. Well this is sorta correct. But think of it like this, him doing what he's doing has allowed him to become a world champion and to face former champs and elites and have a 44-1 record. Next to ppl that probably havnt smoked or drank in their lives. So I would say he's doing fairly well. Dont ya think.

your completely missing my point, listen, if you have a natural talent then you should-like most gifted sportspersons-protect your talent, look after it, your only at the top for a few years if that, the mans just been knocked out, whos to say his lifestyle didnt play a factor? if he lived like the man who ko'd him he might, just very maybe have heard that final bell

[Guest]

Big deal he went on a bender. Good for him.


JReckoning

[Derranged]

All I can say is goddamn, if that's really true. How exactly does anyone know how much he drank???

[Smokin__]

Yeah...I dont have respect for this anymore.

I used to think it was funny...and it is true you do need that mental break. All fighter's do.

But he is becoming like Vargas. Vargas did the same thing and he was shot by the time he was in his mid 20's. Vargas is notorious for being a fat bastard in between fights and just look at him.

He's a professional athlete.

Mayweather showed the difference between having a great team of former boxing champs and great thinkers vs. a old vet who has only had one great fighter in his stable in his entire career.

[squealpiggy]

Yeah Hatton shouldn't be doing this, he should look after himself like a real elite fighter, like Roberto Duran or Sugar Ray Leonard or Mike Tyson. He shouldn't be putting bad substances in his body, he should all natural like James Toney or Roy Jones Junior. Ricky simply shouldn't be engaging in this sort of negative behaviour, he should be thinking about his position as a role model like Jake LaMotta, Ray Robinson or **** me I'm mentioning Iron Mike again...

Incidentally Ricky has the signs of developing alcoholism and I think it may really hit him after he retires. I hope I'm wrong but it's certainly possible.