Former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton has named the toughest fight of his career.
Hatton challenged boxing greats Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao and was stopped by both but has named another opponent as his toughest night’s work.
The ‘Hitman’ claims his world welterweight title fight against Luis Collazo was his hardest contest and has explained why.
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Speaking to talkSPORT he said: “That was my toughest fight. I mean, getting beat by Pacquiao like I did was very tough to come to terms with and Floyd Mayweather was just technically so good.
“From a physical point of view (Collazo was tougher). I never made fights easy for myself. I was always going to have it out with someone.”
“I took it, and I knocked him down in the first ten seconds. I thought, ‘I’ll be in the bar in half an hour at this rate.’ But he got up and I won it on a unanimous decision, but only by one point.
“I think it was only the knockdown that won it. The people that I could bully at 10 stone. When I got close, I could push them, shove them all.
“I couldn’t do it at 10st 7lbs. I hit him, and the shots just bounced off him. I went to shove him back and he didn’t move. I thought, ‘Oh this is going to be a long night.’”
Hatton won the bout on the scorecards and he can still remember how he felt straight after the fight.
He added: “It was the worst after I’ve felt. I had hot sweats, shaky, shivering and I couldn’t even go to the afterparty I was in such a bad way.”
