Greatest Fights - Ricky Hatton on Hatton v Tszyu
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Reliving the night in 2005 when Ricky Hatton beat Kostya Tszyu to win his first world title, in front of a packed M.E.N. Arena.
Hatton reflects on his greatest night in the ring, how his career developed afterwards and why he has struggled with depression in retirement.
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| 0:48.8 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:57.9 | And thanks for joining us once again on five live boxing with Costello on Bunce as we continue our series looking back at great nights and great fights and this is one of the most significant in the history of British boxing. |
| 1:05.0 | I take you to Manchester. It's June and what's more, Mike, it's a hot June. |
| 1:10.0 | We're not talking about one of those June nights where it's just bad weather outside. |
| 1:13.7 | It's unreasonably, unseasonably hot. |
| 1:16.7 | Now we always say, and I'm going to tell you a small lie at the top of the show, |
| 1:20.4 | in fact it's an outrageous fib, is that we always use 22,000 people. |
| 1:26.3 | Well, it wasn't 22,000 people. |
| 1:28.3 | It was a sell out of about 19.5,000. |
| 1:30.6 | There aren't 22,000 seats inside the Manchester Evening News, the Fabled Arena, as it was called. |
| 1:36.0 | But you have to try and get your head around what it was like in there. |
| 1:41.0 | They'd locked the doors, and I mean locked locked the doors and locked out a few people at |
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