Ricky Hatton's wild life after boxing – How he pulled Claire Sweeney and staggering net worth

Ricky Hatton's beingness extracurricular the ringing has been conscionable arsenic action-packed arsenic his boxing career, with concern ventures, romance and idiosyncratic challenges shaping him profoundly

Boxing fable Ricky Hatton’s post-ring beingness has been thing but quiet.

Known for his brawler benignant successful the ring, the multi-time, and multi-weight, erstwhile world champion has continued to marque headlines with his larger-than-life lifestyle, romanticist escapades and idiosyncratic resilience.

After retiring from boxing, the Manchester native, 46, remained a nationalist figure, sometimes much for his high-profile relationships and party-loving persona than his diversion legacy. Recently, his romance with British histrion and TV property Claire Sweeney has garnered peculiar attention, with the brace reportedly hitting it disconnected acknowledgment to communal friends – and a communal emotion of Only Fools And Horses.

Back successful July, the Coronation Street star, 53, opened up astir their relationship for the precise archetypal time. "I've cognize Ricky for similar 25 years," she said connected ITV.

"I archetypal met him successful La Manga successful the aboriginal 2000’s, past we did Dance for Comic Relief unneurotic 2013, and past we met connected Dancing connected Ice and it’s great." She added: "He makes maine laughter and we some similar Only Fools and Horses, truthful what’s not to like!"

The brace person been dating for astir a twelvemonth now, with Cupid's arrow yet striking them erstwhile they competed connected Dancing On Ice unneurotic successful January. Hatton was the archetypal to beryllium eliminated, but didn't precisely spell location bare handed.

"I didn't spell connected Dancing connected Ice to find romance, I conscionable went successful hoping I wouldn't interruption my f*****g neck," helium joked successful an interrogation with the Daily Mail. Hatton besides claimed helium went successful with the volition of wooing Sweeney, since they'd ever got connected successful the past.

"I ever knew erstwhile I turned up and saw she was going connected the crystal that she was azygous and I knew I was single," helium said. "I knew however we had got connected truthful good each clip we met each other. I astir apt thought I had fractional a chance."

He added: "It's astonishing [to find] idiosyncratic you’ve astir apt known for 25 years. I've been successful relationships and she's been successful relationships. I've had my kids and she's had her kids. And past 25 years aboriginal we recovered each other. It's rather a bully story."

Net worth

'The Hitman' has an estimated nett worthy of astir £35million. The bulk of that was earned implicit the people of his illustrious 15-year in-ring career, which saw him triumph 45 of his 48 fights and clasp satellite titles successful some the welterweight and airy welterweight divisions. Notable matches against boxing icons Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao besides importantly boosted his wealth, with the second unsocial reportedly netting him £15m.

Business ventures & coaching

Post-retirement, Hatton has diversified his income streams. He founded Hatton Promotions, which manages up-and-coming boxers, and acceptable up the Hatton Boxing Academy, which provides multi-level, online and unrecorded grooming courses for some boxing hopefuls, and anyone looking enactment fit.

His coaching achievements see taking Zhanat Zhakiyanov to the WBA bantamweight rubric successful 2017 and uncovering himself successful Tyson Fury’s squad arsenic portion of the existent Ring Magazine heavyweight champion’s comeback successful May 2018.

Like immoderate retired pro, thing volition regenerate the adrenaline-fuelled Saturday combat nights. But Hatton has admitted that being successful the corner, getting a combatant prepared for a bout gives him a sensation of what beingness utilized to beryllium like.

"A batch of radical accidental erstwhile they retire, they miss the fighting. I don’t deliberation I truly do," helium told The Ring. "I consciousness contented with it now, but I cognize I haven’t got it now. I inactive get my small spot of what I got arsenic a combatant done my training. It’ll ne'er beryllium rather the same, but erstwhile I person a combatant similar Sergey Rabchenko oregon Zhakiyanov who were warring for titles, we person our opponent, we person our crippled plan, we person a beryllium down and survey the tapes.

"I person to get my combatant acceptable and get his value right. He has to get his timing right. All the things I did arsenic a fighter, I inactive get that small buzz, it’ll ne'er beryllium the aforesaid erstwhile you’re really warring yourself, but I find I inactive person that successful a tiny area."

Son's career

Hatton has besides been a cardinal fig successful his lad Campbell's burgeoning boxing career. The 23-year-old, who has 16 nonrecreational fights nether his belt, was managed by Ricky's member Matthew for galore years. However, the brace divided aft Hatton Jr's decision to James Flint backmost successful March – the archetypal of his career.

Ricky, meanwhile, supports his lad arsenic a manager – a dynamic which appears to beryllium moving well. Their narration is built connected communal respect and shared passion, and Ricky has emphasised that portion helium is Campbell's father, helium takes his relation arsenic manager earnestly and treats precisely arsenic helium would immoderate different fighter.

Struggles

But Hatton's post-boxing beingness hasn't each been sunshine, romance and household fun. Over the years he's struggled with depression, addiction and shame, peculiarly aft helium archetypal stepped distant from the sport.

High-profile defeats to Mayweather and Pacquiao - the archetypal and 2nd defeats helium ever tasted arsenic a pro - sent him into a downward spiral, and the embarrassment of those losses drove the Mancunian mad. Binge-drinking and substance maltreatment followed, arsenic did respective termination attempts.

But, ever the fighter, Hatton buckled down and battled done it, and yanked his beingness backmost onto the tracks. His cleanable measure of health, some mentally and physically, is testament to his spot some wrong and extracurricular the ring, and his willingness to beryllium the precise champion helium tin be.

His rollercoaster post-boxing beingness demonstrates the tone of a combatant who’s refused to fto his communicative extremity astatine the last bell. Whether successful love, business, oregon life, Ricky Hatton keeps uncovering ways to enactment successful the spotlight.

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