An Evening With Ricky THE HITMAN Hatton

Ricky Hatton the man himself will take us a tour on his life being fresh out of Dancing on ice and also a multiple world champion at light-welterweight, and one-time world champion at welterweight, enjoyed a dazzling career between 1997 and 2012 and will join us at Portobello Town Hall to talk all about his time inside the boxing ring. 

In 2000, Hatton won the British light-welterweight title, followed by the WBU title the following year, making a record fifteen successful defences of the latter from 2001 to 2004. Hatton defeated Kostya Tszyu in 2005 to win the IBF title, before defeating Carlos Maussa in 2006 to win the WBA title and therefore became a unified light-welterweight world champion.

Hatton made his welterweight debut in 2006, defeating Luis Collazo to win the WBA welterweight title, before successfully defending his light-welterweight titles against Juan Urango and Jose Luis Castillo.

In total, Ricky Hatton achieved 43 successive victories prior to defeat by Floyd Mayweather Jr for the WBC welterweight title in 2007 and after a brief hiatus, ended his career in 2012 with a record of 45 wins and 3 losses, 32 of those victories were by knockout