The previous world boxing champion Ricky Hatton, 46, has been discovered useless at his house. The British fighter, who gained a number of world titles and was often called ‘The Hitman’ all through his profession, was reportedly discovered at his house in Higher Manchester on Sunday morning. Higher Manchester police (GMP) mentioned a physique was discovered at an handle in Hyde. A spokesperson for GMP mentioned there should not at the moment believed to be any suspicious circumstances.
As tributes pour in for the boxer, who retired in 2012 earlier than occurring to talk brazenly about his struggles with melancholy and alcohol, discover out all we learn about his household life, together with a fall-out along with his mother and father and feedback he is made about his relationship with them.
© Getty PicturesRicky’s relationship along with his mother and father
In 2012, Ricky fell out along with his mother and father, Carol and Ray, over cash, which resulted in a confrontation along with his father in a parking lot. He recalled the second in his autobiography, Battle and Peace: My Story, which was launched in 2014, revealing that his father punched him within the face throughout a heated argument.
Ricky was estranged from his mother and father for years, earlier than he ultimately provided an olive department. He instructed the Manchester Night Information in 2019: “Finally, after I fell out with my mother and father, I hit all-time low. I did not care whether or not I lived or died, to be sincere with you. A couple of of my faculty buddies are the identical age as me, their mother and father have been having coronary heart assaults, and I used to be going to their funerals. And I believed to myself, ‘I am 40 now, I am at an age the place our mother and father may not be right here for much longer’. So if their mother and father are getting in poor health and passing away and all that, it isn’t going to be lengthy earlier than mine go. I simply made the trouble to suppose, ‘pay attention, you realize, let bygones be bygones, depart issues prior to now. That is it’.”
© Getty PicturesIn 2023, Ricky’s relationship along with his household appeared to interrupt down once more when a documentary in regards to the former world champion boxer’s life was launched, together with allegations made by Ricky’s former coach, Billy Graham, who accused Ray of short-changing him over battle purses.
Sharing a letter she wrote with the Mail On-line in 2023, Carol mentioned: “I have to’ve rewrote this letter, modified it time and time once more, not wanting anybody to suppose that I used to be slating my son. Each time I learn it, I nonetheless get upset as a result of I am hurting. Me and Ray are on our final lap. No one is aware of what’s across the nook. How would he really feel if something occurred to both of us? There’s an outdated saying, ‘If he cannot come see me after I’m alive, do not come after I’m useless together with your tears’.”
Ricky’s household life
Ricky leaves behind him three kids: Campbell, 24, Millie, 13, and Fearne, 12. Ricky welcomed his first baby, Campbell, who retired from boxing earlier this 12 months, along with his former accomplice Claire, and later turned a father to Millie and Fearne throughout his relationship with former fiancée Jennifer Dooley. Ricky additionally had a granddaughter named Lyla.
Ricky was most just lately linked to actress Claire Sweeney. The pair received collectively after they each appeared on the 2024 season of Dancing on Ice. Claire beforehand mentioned of their romance: “We all the time handed one another at occasions, we did a TV present collectively, to start with I met him in La Manga within the early 2000s after which we did dance for Comedian Reduction collectively in 2013 after which met on Dancing On Ice. It has been nice.”
© InstagramIt was reported that the pair went their separate methods in direction of the top of 2024. Opening up about their cut up in December final 12 months, Claire instructed MailOnline: “I am nice – we’re nonetheless buddies, we have been buddies, we dated and now we’re buddies once more. It is all good!”
