Ricky Hatton

Ricky Hatton is one of those fighters who makes you question everything you thought you knew about boxing — here's a guy from Stockport, 168 cm of pure grit and forward pressure, who went out and dismantled world-class opponents at light-welterweight and welterweight with a body-punching game that was just brutal to watch. "The Hitman" wasn't pretty; he was relentless, suffocating you against the ropes until something gave way. The fact that Manchester fans packed out entire arenas just to see him fight says everything about the kind of blue-collar hero he was. He took his lumps too — the losses to Mayweather and Pacquiao were hard to witness — but he never hid from the sport or the public, and getting inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2024 feels like exactly the right send-off for a career built on heart over hype.

Name (English)

Ricky Hatton

Name (Japanese)

リッキー・ハットン

Reading

りっきー・はっとん

Born

October 6, 1978 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Stockport, United Kingdom

Height

168 cm

Occupation

boxer / autobiographer

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Member of the Order of the British Empire
• 2024 International Boxing Hall of Fame
• IBF World Junior Welterweight Champion
• IBF World Junior Welterweight Champion
• WBA World Welterweight Champion
• WBA World Super Lightweight Champion
• The Ring World Junior Welterweight Champion
• IBO World Super Lightweight Champion

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.hattonboxing.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rickyhitmanhatton/
• Xhttps://x.com/HitmanHatton
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3

Tags

• boxer
• autobiographer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.