{"id":50760,"date":"2025-10-13T16:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/boxing-legends-honor-ricky-hatton-at-funeral-emotional-farewell-in-manchester\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:50:01","slug":"boxing-legends-honor-ricky-hatton-at-funeral-emotional-farewell-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/boxing-legends-honor-ricky-hatton-at-funeral-emotional-farewell-in-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing Legends Honor Ricky Hatton at Funeral: Emotional Farewell in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boxing Legends Pay Tribute to Ricky Hatton<\/h2>\n\nIn a moving ceremony held in Manchester on Friday, iconic figures from the world of boxing came together to honor the memory of Ricky Hatton, known as the “people’s champion”.\n\nSports stars and celebrities gathered to remember a local hero who, despite achieving fame and fortune, always remained grounded.\n\n\n

He was a fantastic fighter, one of the best. He inspired many boxers like us.<\/p>Amir Khan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nAmir Khan, former two-weight world champion, highlighted Hatton’s influence:\n\nKhan added: “He will be remembered as one of the greatest of Great Britain. He was very cheerful, very funny, a very respected and very kind person. He was always the champion of the people.”\n\n\n

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Amir Khan presente en la ceremonia en Manchester.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAlso among those present were Tyson Fury and Frank Bruno, former world heavyweight champions, and Barry McGuigan, former world featherweight champion.\n\nMcGuigan highlighted Hatton’s leadership, from his beginnings as a promising amateur to becoming a world champion, taking thousands of fans to Las Vegas for epic battles against figures like Floyd Mayweather and Jos\u00e9 Luis Castillo.\n\nRegarding the large influx of fans, many dressed in the light blue of Manchester City, a team loved by Hatton, McGuigan commented:\n\n\n

It’s amazing, but it doesn’t surprise me because he was a star, an incredible human being.<\/p>Barry McGuigan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nTony Bellew, former cruiserweight world champion, revealed how Hatton inspired him to climb the rankings and achieve his dream.\n\nBellew stated: “For someone who reached the levels of Ricky Hatton and remained a normal person, it’s incredible.”\n\nBellew recalled his first experience watching Hatton train.\n\n\n

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Tyson Fury, excampe\u00f3n de peso pesado, en Manchester para honrar a Ricky Hatton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nBellew added: “I’ve seen thousands of boxers train over the years, hundreds of thousands, but after seeing him, he’s the only boxer who has impressed me and I’ve thought: ‘That’s the standard.’ An incredible person, an incredible father, always with a smile. He used to be the worst dressed, but he always found a way to make you laugh.”","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boxing Legends Pay Tribute to Ricky Hatton In a moving ceremony held in Manchester on Friday, iconic figures from the world of boxing came together to honor the memory of Ricky Hatton, known as the “people’s champion”. Sports stars and celebrities gathered to remember a local hero who, despite achieving fame and fortune, always remained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,5327,8439,5468],"class_list":{"0":"post-50760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-funeral","9":"tag-manchester","10":"tag-ricky-hatton"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}