pretty had his making his return to the ring after taking in brutal brutal
sellout
from any paki al if you have not seen it all for all the in the description for
you guys to check that out
it's in three-and-a-half years since that night with just six seconds left
in the second round he was knocked down repeatedly
by many packed yes organ three-and-a-half years in those
three-and-a-half years ricky hatton has as he has said
had to fight are
demyans he abuse cocaine hughes he was abusing alcohol
he was suicidal
his wife caught him many times attempting or at least about two slit
his wrists he has
troubled relationship now with
what was once viewed as incredibly supportive parents from manchester
he is in a lawsuit against his former trainer and friend
billy graham
uh... ricky hatton is life has been spiraling down like crazy so let me ask
you this robert he's fighting a former welter weight title holder of who lost
appalling non nazi
this seems like it's a way more than just boxing
what do you make of all this
beauty is way more than boxing
what has happened that myself at a loss of course and uh...
there's a real question whether or not a loss tonight acl primary paki allison
often to lose complete control of oneself but patented
he uh... pat all the things he said you know the suicide attempts or at least
contemplation
the drugs the alcohol the overeating
and the incredible plummeting
selfesteem
which is what he's trying to retrieve he looks upon himself as having
at a failure
who killed the children he feels good german if you know it's eloquent main
consumes
he briefly things that he's a failure and that the only way that he should be
able to turn around that perception
which of course is in fact a misperception is by fighting again
improving that he's not a failure
but he's a winner
now i'm not so sure of that will self-esteem up he had to go to wo
selfesteem
is being punched
it would seem that values of the amp i have to do it
that's what happens trying to do
after three-and-a-half years
he's trying to recapture issue trying to capture waiting osvaldo
trying to rewind turn back the hands of of time
to reclaim balls quarry
many foreigners would help us in the past uh... have this feeling in the
present
and he's going to slow the resume his career
of saturday
and um...
i have very mixed feelings about it personally
the place taking place in manchester
you know
urban mean when i uh... we look at this story and i look at what has become
ricky hatton
over these last three and a half years you know we talked about
him and it's just plain sad but when we look at it and we examine it he called
himself a failure he feels like he's failed
you know as he said his countrymen and his family and his kids and uh... you
know i a his inner circle everyone around him everyone that's
and he's ever and you know touched personally insider been close to
you know
you said that he felt like a failure for losing but okay he wins this fight maybe
he gets another fight with
you know not to say appalling on dicey but uh... you know obviously a better
opponent 'cause it's a ricky hatton is back
what happens when he looses that fight
is
the sixty four thousand dollar question
uh... if his opinion going to change it back dramatically if he wins the slates
um... and if it does thirty-eight speaks volumes to his
steven monica immediate
stable state of mind boxing is nothing that really kicked in
reinforces a stable state of mind uh... some questionable leaving it they had
which affects mind
but the rise and fall of one's own career
affects one's mind uh... dramatically
hatton will lose a virtually now he may lose saturday which might be the best in
the world the company concert of
and uh... sort of one in dot business and you'll get some professional help
uh... put a smile loser he smiled failure he's a winner if one looks at
his background looks where people where he came
i mean if in fact or whether i don't know who we are sore winner
let me to have to offer the launch record too many paki al therefore they
would have junior to greater fighters of his era
i mean that's cool cried uh...
developing here you go whether i wish it to the mounting within your winter
weather
people opposed to a bloody of which he was really a from his family
from his parents from his share all of whom no what a week
actually resumed his career
in some ways i'm rooting for that because i want had the winds so that he
will think that he is yet uh... again
a winner
and on the other hand after she moves delicacy lose quickly without taking a
big beatings so that he can sort of get all of a place to get all of his pres
production
his promotional company
get all the training fighters
not past do indoor appealing
so
unless one side you think that uh... you'd be good for him
so when and then on the other side think that'll be good for him to just
lose really quickly
i think in the long run
opera gloss would be the best
go to war reinforces the fact that he no longer have fit
which in what he has been suffering
with for the past three and a half years
where an interview with whereas if he wins
he's going to think that he is the cat's meow he is back
they're already saying he's back he had been there for the edit all the papers
in britain ease back had moved back
any agreement forget
if you is he's a really think he's back
and then of course he's going to look for competition and the inevitable
lost as you pointed out is going to happen
and then what happens ticket but def borrower control again
it's inevitable
it remains to be seen i suppose he is known for drawing crowds he's in thirty
thousand people
to side believes is the press conference uh... the way and against foreign
militant union
at the m_g_m_ grand you know i as i said this fight is taking place in manchester
first send jaco i believe it or do you guys earlier that he lost the polling on
icy
uh... na na he actually knocked him out
tell me the last time you heard that
and he seems like the bigger fighter he has a seven e inch reached so by mean do
you think
you take your heart out of the first second and just take a little
objectively do you think that pat and wins this fight
itunes exactly plate
i think he picked up a new political opponent the opponent who gets cut
opponent who gets knocked out uh... in a way that sounds perfect for ricky hatton
i guess this is my final question t robert you know you said that if you
took a beating really early van
need be
houston could see that he doesn't have it anymore however on the flip side and
i guess i'm just playing devil's advocate or maybe i just honestly feel
this
on the flip side if he goes in there and he loses in the first second perfer
around early stoppage
it's not done
or his corner has to save him because he will not
uh... technically won't he be think uh... or he wore have this perception
that he will think the people have this perception of him
that he's a failure once again if he gets knocked out in the first second or
third row
but if you already have that perception that he's going in too
in return the perception around
how
i'm i'm assuming that that that investors
perception is senior partner washout and proper washout
with one win overspend chaco it display that is going to remain and will reveal
itself over time if he continues to fight
so uh... means that again
that this is an inevitability because again the problem is not being resolved
uh... when i was low self-esteem being hit my head is not necessary but that
thing for once
their serviced or psychological relate that only getting to become a
professional implicit in the in that particular realm
i'm not sure
is returning to the rating in a good thing
for him
well we will have to wait and see either way we are runing before rixie had not
just in the ring but in the demands fight of
life
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