Comments Thread For: Joe Calzaghe: Even 46-0 fighters struggle to cope with retirement

[BoxingUpdates]

Joe Calzghe reflects on the perils of the boxing afterlife and the passing of Ricky Hatton with Tris Dixon
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[Pulmonary Embolii]

I volunteered for Samaritans (a crisis helpline) in the UK for four and a half years and from everything I heard, anyone can feel suicidal. It could be memories from something that happened at the time of the year (Christmas was high in callers), but it could be because of the way someone was treated or even because someone they loved had took their own life. Very sad. It's good to talk.

[Jamesboxing]

The Hatton stuff is just so sad because even tho the guy was adored by the British boxing fans and the way he managed to have such a following in the UK because of that it still just seemed like he couldn’t ever shake the fact he felt he let people down with how his career ended and the fights he lost and I think after his career was done he always sat with that even tho he did really good things after boxing like training fighters and having his own gym that was one of the top ones in the country for fighters to come and train and it was a shame it ended the way it did because Ricky was a great guy and a quality fighter but depression is such a real thing that chips away at you even when you seem like you’re doing well it can just spring up on you again and again