{"id":196001,"date":"2025-09-29T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/ricky-hatton-was-excited-for-thrill-of-being-back-in-the-ring\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:01:16","slug":"ricky-hatton-was-excited-for-thrill-of-being-back-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/ricky-hatton-was-excited-for-thrill-of-being-back-in-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton was excited for &#8216;thrill&#8217; of being back in the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-09-29\" datetime=\"1759158076\" pubdate=\"\">29 September 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ricky-hatton\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ricky-hatton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricky Hatton<\/a> wanted to return to boxing \u201cfor the thrill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ricky Hatton was preparing for a fight when he died<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old boxer \u2013 who was found dead at home earlier this month \u2013 hung up his gloves in 2012 but was preparing to fight Eisa Al-Dah in December at the time of his passing, and his long-term manager Paul Speak explained Ricky wasn\u2019t looking for a full career comeback.<\/p>\n<p>He told Boxing News magazine: &#8220;He always said if the right offer came along he\u2019d do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was asked if he\u2019d want to fight Eisa Al-Dah and the WBC said they\u2019d find a belt for it as they wanted to raise the profile of boxing in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe looked at his record and saw he\u2019s a similar age. It would just be a one-off.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe wasn\u2019t doing it for the money. It would be good for his health and he wanted to do it for the excitement and thrill and to end his career with a win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nPaul \u2013 who tragically found Ricky\u2019s body \u2013 has been touched by the number of people who have been in touch since his friend\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cI spent a great deal or time with him and got to know him better than a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe would always confide in me if something was troubling him.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe always used to say, if you have a problem, talk to someone.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIn the last few weeks, there was nothing major of concern.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSo many people have got in touch. It\u2019s so humbling to think so many people cared about him.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m still finding out about all the good things he did and the people he helped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/ricky-hatton-excited-thrill-back-ring-1430543.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 September 2025 Ricky Hatton wanted to return to boxing \u201cfor the thrill\u201d. Ricky Hatton was preparing for a fight when he died The 46-year-old boxer \u2013 who was found dead at home earlier this month \u2013 hung up his gloves in 2012 but was preparing to fight Eisa Al-Dah in December at the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12509,12408],"class_list":{"0":"post-196001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-paul-speak","9":"tag-ricky-hatton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}