A knockout evening with Ricky Hatton

Multiple world champion light-welterweight and one-time world champion welterweight boxer Ricky Hatton enjoyed a dazzling career between 1997 and 2012 is coming to The Barn to talk about his incredible career.

In 2000 Hatton won the British light-welterweight title, followed by the WBU title the following year making a record fifteen successful defences of the latter from 2001 to 2004. Hatton defeated Kostya Tszyu in 2005 to win the IBF title before defeating Carlos Maussa in 2006 to win the WBA title and therefore became a unified light-welterweight world champion.

Hatton made his welterweight debut in 2006, defeating Luis Collazo to win the WBA welterweight title, before successfully defending his light-welterweight titles against Juan Urango and Jose Luis Castillo. In total, Ricky Hatton achieved 43 successive victories prior to defeat by Floyd Mayweather Jr for the WBC welterweight title in 2007 and after a brief hiatus, ended his career in 2012 with a record of 45 wins and 3 losses, 32 of those victories were by knockout.

VIP tickets include best seats, photo opportunity and meet and greet with Ricky before the show.

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