Ricky Hatton filmed using cocaine, allegedly knocked out in bar fight
by Scott Christ on Sep 11, 2010 6:52 PM EDT
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More boxing fun for the whole family this week, as British superstar Ricky Hatton has been caught on film snorting cocaine, and is also rumored -- and I stress rumored -- to have been knocked out in a bar fight.
News of the World has video of Hatton and the cocaine, which is sure to stir up major tabloid coverage in the United Kingdom. Joe Calzaghe had a cocaine scandal last year, too, and UK athletes in general seem particularly susceptible to what appears from the outside to be a bit of a tabloid-crazy culture, not that we don't have plenty of that in the States.
As for the bar fight, Simon Wright of the Mirror is reporting it:
The fighter known as "the Hitman" was knocked out by a single punch to the face after an argument broke out over a fruit machine. A bodybuilder twice his size accused him of pushing in front of him in a queue for the machine.
Hatton, 31, was knocked across tables and on to the floor. He then lay dazed on the floor of the Railway Inn in Hyde, Manchester, for several seconds.
Hatton, 31, has kept reiterating that he isn't retired from boxing, but he's ballooned in weight and has been out of the ring since May 2009, when he was knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in two rounds. He has started a successful promotional company in the UK, which has already turned into one of the more notable promotional outfits across the pond. The Manchester native is a known "partier," famous for his drinking and night life, so I doubt anyone is truly shocked by this.
We'll update further if more news comes.
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i’m surprised that someone as fat as he is does coke. aren’t cokeheads notoriously skinny
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by battle axe of doom on Sep 11, 2010 7:14 PM EDT reply actions
yeah in movies
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by Scott Christ on Sep 11, 2010 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
No,cokeheads often like to eat comfort food in their downtime.
I’m not one but i know quite a few old friends.
Yeah I’ve known plenty of fat cokeheads. I wouldn’t call them friends, but they were people I knew.
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by Scott Christ on Sep 11, 2010 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Brilliant
movies always botch the way drug users should look. Breaking Bad is my favorite show on TV right now and they do this all the time. Jesse, one of the main characters, is a meth head and he’s got perfect teeth that are white as hell. Ridiculous.
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by SilverNBlackZach! on Sep 12, 2010 1:06 AM EDT up reply actions
First off, whats a fruit machine?
Also, British tabloid culture is about three times advanced as ours. Stateside publications try to copy them.
slot machine
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by Scott Christ on Sep 11, 2010 7:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Haha I was thinking the same about the fruit machine
Since they mentioned the bodybuilder, I thought it was some kind of automatic smoothie machine.
by Polish Rifle on Sep 12, 2010 12:18 AM EDT up reply actions
The main reason it doesn’t suprise me is that i see Hatton as a fairly low intelligence idiot who just happens to be pretty good at boxing,not some working class hero as some see him.
And i’m not from a privileged upbringing,i’m from the same sort of background as him.
I just don’t like his cliched persona.
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lol at cliched persona .
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. " Hunter S Thompson.
Haha
JC,i think you probably know i’m not being 100% serious there and i don’t really care what Hatton does.I just wish he would stop acting like he’s still a boxer when he’s so grotesquely out of shape and past his best.
I’m sure we’ve all done a bit of recreational stuff in the past or whatever so it’s no big deal.
I wouldn’t really mind Hatton that much if he’d just retire and stop going back and forth on it.I’m sick of hearing about him basically and he should just team up with Phil Taylor in a pro/am darts combo,carry on swilling booze and eating chinese and fish and chips every day and we can watch and see who explodes first. :)
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Of course mate , as another working class bloke I couldnt help have a chuckle though . My moneys on the power if he can sink piss as good as he can chuck a spear , he’d have Ricky covered.
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This Hatton Thing
Actually seems like near-innocent high jinks compared with the kind of viciousness we’ve been putting up with over here. Not to say I’m endorsing coke use, but—it’s just stupid, not vicious.
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but I personally find it less disturbing than Money May and family. It seems like a lot of athletes, when they can finally let themselves go to hell, go through a phase where they do so with vengeance, and you just hope they get out of it OK—but that kind of phase isn’t just boxers, lots of recently retired athletes get into pickles.
And,
As I putz about the house waiting for the Cubans, in sort of a slow take, I’m not happy he got hit in the head again. I was really hoping he’d never take another headshot as long as he lived.
if it's true
it pretty much puts the exclamation point on any question about his remaining punch resistance.
As for the coke, the only difference between him and everybody else that fools around with it is that he is a celebrity….thus making the video in the first place and then circulating it. There is no privacy for any of us…but he has to know that all the more.
Coke goes well with bangers and mash….or so I’m told. Also goes well with Stout, or ale. Or Vindaloo.
So Im assuming it was the female friend
who set up the hidden camera. Who was also screwing him during the bender (you can hear her in the background.) I wonder if she said “Im screwing you right now” during it – with a nice double meaning. I bet she made a pretty penny off this video
good one
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by sonofapsycho on Sep 12, 2010 7:21 AM EDT up reply actions
not the first and certainly not the last
that was a hell out of lot of coke he was snorting.
i wanna know who set up the camera.
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Some Irish female boxer apparently.
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by Scott Christ on Sep 12, 2010 10:25 AM EDT up reply actions
Cocaine ruins the chin !!! It's a known fact !!!
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by Ghostman (Son of the Wolf) on Sep 12, 2010 8:19 AM EDT reply actions
Ghost, we'll never have proof
But coke was so prevalent in the late ’70’s and throughout the ’80’s I would venture to say that more than a few fighters were users. Hell, the entire ’We are family" Pittsburg Pirate team won the championship in 1979 on coke.
I think we have to assume that what effects one mans chin also fueled another man’s fire.
id say what an idiot but..
im not all that suprised.
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