Ricky Hatton back on booze weeks after rehab

[Nuurzhaelan]

Ricky needs to make a comeback. He doesn't even need to fight good opponents, I'd watch and support him...

It is hard to pity a guy who is throwing his life and fortune away. It's not like he had a bad break. He got virtually everything he asked for including 2 fights against two DIFFERENT P4P number 1 fighters. He came up short. He's had his cry, now he needs to man up and get his head out of his ass for his woman's sake, his kid's sake and, not least of all, his own sake.

Let's think about this. What adversity has he had in life? When a man who has had as many fortunes as he has carries on this way because of two losses I wonder at that man's courage. Oh, I will grant that he has the courage to enter the ring and slug it out with the best of them, but he seems to lack courage to live life in anything less than the brightest moments and what I believe is the answer is that he was never truly all that humble. He needs to understand that being a man is more important than being the best. To be a man he needs to accept his losses, hold his head high and carry on. The more he behaves like this the more he will have to shame him and the harder his recovery will be.

Although, the more I think on this the I believe that woman who ratted on him did more harm than good. Whether this is merely the 'rough patch' before the good things begin again remains to be seen, but for right now it seems that her blithe revelation has served to unhinge, and not ground him.

[Ray*]

Am sure the paper was implying he also drug ******* when he got into that BMW. Am not surprise at all, The man is an addict for years now, The problem was he wasnt expose because of his PR people.

[Clyde Barrow]

Big surprise. The guy's done fighting. Let him drink, drug, and eat all he wants. He's earned it.

[ManOfVictory]

feel bad for Hatton...hope he gets better.

[Weebler I]

What adversity has he had in life? When a man who has had as many fortunes as he has carries on this way because of two losses

He had all these issues when he was winning, it's nothing to do with losses. He's clearly an addictive personality whether it be food, alcohol or *******. Addiction doesn't discriminate no matter how much material success a person has had in life. I'm guessing boxing actually gave him focus and kept him disciplined at least for the periods leading up to fights, he doesn't have that now.

[Check_hooks]

So he drank 32 beers in 2 days. Thats 16 beers a day. About 1 beer per waking hour. He did just have to pay his ex trainer 1.4 million euro so I think hes entitled to have a drink. At least he had the sense to call a taxi and have a friend drive him around.

[Easy-E]

Pathetic **** from this "reporter" what a joke. Get a life, dude.

[Nuurzhaelan]

He had all these issues when he was winning, it's nothing to do with losses. He's clearly an addictive personality whether it be food, alcohol or *******. Addiction doesn't discriminate no matter how much material success a person has had in life. I'm guessing boxing actually gave him focus and kept him disciplined at least for the periods leading up to fights, he doesn't have that now.

Hmm, then he probably has hidden issues that we don't know about. If that is the case, then I do feel more sympathy for him. Unfortunately all our well wishing is not going to help. He needs to straighten himself out before he kills himself. I dunno, I hear stories about how some athletes have 'baby sitters' because their personalities are so difficult to manage. Perhaps Rick needs that for his own health...at least for a little while. Not that we should demean him and call his watcher a 'baby sitter' but really...he is out of control and needs to be reined in.

Good post, guy. You put it into perspective for me. I really did not know this was a problem DURING his career.

[Easy-E]

I mean, what type of loser follows a popular figure around and counts the number of drinks he has in a night? Beyond being a loser...

[Blubba]

Awesome! Good Job Ricky!

BTW, does anyone have a good working link to the Showtime fights? PM me for points, thanks in advance.

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