Article first published on BigFightWeekend.com

Ricky Hatton’s impact on British boxing during an illustrious 15-year career is difficult to over state. The council estate beginnings were as important as the Vegas venues he would eventually reach in carving out his place in the affections of the tens of thousands who would follow him to the States, famously drinking the bars dry, and the many millions who loved him from afar. Every one of them feeling they knew him.