RICKY Hatton has KO’d plans for a ring return by telling family and friends that he will NOT box again.
Hatton returned to his Manchester home yesterday after stunning pals on a stag weekend in Tenerife by telling them he is calling it a day.
A close friend of Hatton’s said last night: “We are all gobsmacked because, until the weekend, everything pointed to him returning in June.
“We were all having a few drinks in Tenerife when Ricky said he didn’t feel he had the motivation to carry on any more.”
The 31-year-old has not climbed into the ring since his X-rated horror knockout at the hands of Manny Pacquiao last May.
But everything looked set for his return when he announced in January that he felt he “had one more great fight” in him and would be back in June.
The comeback news rocked the family of ‘The Hitman’ because no-one close to the Manchester idol felt he had the need to carry on or prove anything.
With a growing stable of fighters under his promotional wing and lucrative after-dinner circuit dates, he is financially secure with an estimated fortune of more than £40m.
He is expected to make an offi cial announcement within days to finally end a career in which he earned his place as one of Britain’s all-time greats.
The former world light-welterweight champion and WBA welterweight title holder is believed to weigh in excess of 14 stone – more than 50lb over his fighting weight.
Source: dailystar.co.uk
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