Former Boxing World Champion, Ricky Hatton Caught on Camera Using Cocaine
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 12, 2010 4:32 AM EDT
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Another high-profile boxer has made the headlines in a bad way, as News of the World released a video of former long time boxing welterweight champ, Ricky Hatton snorting cocaine:
The shameful images of 31-year-old national hero Ricky, nicknamed The Hitman for his ring victories, were captured at a Manchester hotel two weeks ago.
And this was one bout in which the two-times world welterweight supremo got really hammered - knocked out by a marathon 10-hour bender including SEVEN lines of coke in THREE separate drug sessions, 11 pints of Guinness, four vodkas, two glasses of wine and several Sambucas.
Aside from this drug scandal, Hatton was also rumored to have been knocked out in a bar fight after having an argument over a fruit machine.
Footage of the boxer doing drugs is after the jump.
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What type of idiot snorts coke off of the WOOD dresser in a HOTEL ROOM?
Nice watch though.
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by S.C. Michaelson on Sep 11, 2010 11:04 PM EDT reply actions
such a weird criticism. i laughed though.
I'm just here for the dogfights and prostitutes.
by Earl Montclair on Sep 11, 2010 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
whoa!!!! its not a real wood dresser if that helps.
by the-gentle-way on Sep 11, 2010 11:57 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Oh ok. I was about to say.
But it’s still in a hotel room.
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by S.C. Michaelson on Sep 12, 2010 12:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Where else is he supposed to do it?
Can’t exactly use them for appetizers at his mum’s Sunday family dinner.
Agreed tho, he should’ve done them off that chick’s ass. Proper coke etiquette.
There’s a reason people often put their coke on mirrors and not wood surfaces. Think about it. Of course, hot chicks’ asses are also acceptable.
by StephenDedalus on Sep 12, 2010 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions
how do you figure he feels about snorting pieces of wood?
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by the-gentle-way on Sep 12, 2010 9:38 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Looks
like a good time.
Big whoop: adult does drugs.
Facts don't come with points of view.
by Robert Livingston on Sep 11, 2010 11:05 PM EDT reply actions 10 recs
My view on it, too.
Who the fuck cares?
by Jonathan. on Sep 11, 2010 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Exactly
Its been well known in the UK Rickys been on coke for years, a good friend of mine met him in Thailand when he was training Muay Thai and Ricky came to the gym to watch, then ended up going on to party with the rest of the english lads and made no attempt to hide it from them he was taking coke, and that was when he was at his peak boxing wise.
Plus 7 lines over 10 hours doesn’t seem like a huge coke binge.
by Dropkick434 on Sep 12, 2010 12:54 AM EDT up reply actions
ahh guiness is very low in alcohol and calories so if you enjoy it, it’s easy to put down
by Steven Abbott on Sep 12, 2010 1:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't know about that.
It’s among the top tier on this page in both calories and alcohol content: http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php
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by RearNakedSpank on Sep 12, 2010 2:05 AM EDT up reply actions
You're looking at the extra stout.
He was having the 4% unless he wasn’t drinking in the UK.
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Low in calories???
I wonder how many lines you did to come to that conclusion. ;)
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by ihateemo on Sep 12, 2010 6:15 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
You need to check your facts mate, theres more calories in a guiness than a beer, its like a meal in a glass its that heavy.
Do any of you even drink beer? Just because it appears thick and may fill you (due to the extra foaminess), doesn’t mean it has high calories or alcohol content. It has less calories than most light beers and less alcohol than most shit lagers
by Steven Abbott on Sep 12, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh sorry.
Then I guess you’re right. I know it has less alcohol content obviously, but what I do know is that it is more filling than light beer…
I guess I “don’t drink beer” cause I didn’t read the calorie count.
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 12, 2010 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
It is filling, but it is fairly low calorie compared to other beers.
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by MMAMoneyLine on Sep 12, 2010 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions
It's been all downhill
Since Lennox Lewis retired.
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by WarToney on Sep 12, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
That's not good.
Cocaine’s a hell of a drug
I'm just here for the dogfights and prostitutes.
by Earl Montclair on Sep 11, 2010 11:07 PM EDT reply actions
The Michael Phelps videographer strikes again!
Some chode who is looking to make a buck, and probably did. What an ass.
ya hey ...
That has to be illegal … I am sure they were tipped off on it … a TMZ kinda thing? … losers … let him live his life …
by hacksaw_27 on Sep 12, 2010 1:01 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
"..with a female friend.."
Of course the hotel staff might have jumped at a chance to catch a ‘celeb’ up to something juicy and called the local snoop.
This will surely shock his army of fans, many of whom probably also do coke. ‘course, they’re all gonna be so shocked by this. Shocked like static electricity.
only 7 lines?
With his money, you figure he’d be doing a little bit more.
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by B.H. Farnsworth on Sep 11, 2010 11:10 PM EDT reply actions
Exactly my thoughts that has to be what they caught on camera. In a 10 hour span while out drinking he atleast went threw a good 2 or 3 grams to a 8 ball or even more, Coke and Alchool go together like PB&J to someone who uses coke and likes to drink also.
I think its time to check into Rehab and stop the PR scale from going downward Rickey. Hey look on the brite side Ricky.Getting caught on camera blowing lines is pretty bad but its not as bad as say Marion barry now. Atleast they did not get you on camera smoking Crack now ! Also who knows maybe its his new diet program sence after getting out of boxing he has transformed into Fatton again. There is no better diet then the Tony Montana diet !!!
17 drinks though
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by B.H. Farnsworth on Sep 11, 2010 11:11 PM EDT reply actions
Way to screw up a sacred Anchorman quote...
“I’m not even mad, that’s amazing.”
I’m assuming that was the reference. If not, I’m a tool, and apologize sincerely.
“I’m only talking about this because Ricky is a danger to himself. If he carries on like this he’ll kill himself.
“I’m really, really worried for him, especially if he tries to make a comeback in the ring as he’s hinted – he could have a heart attack.”
Emma, 29 – the current Irish national senior women’s boxing champ – told us how she flew from Dublin into Manchester to attend a cage fighting event with Hatton.
…
“I noticed he kept disappearing to the toilets – at least four times in two hours – and I now suspect he was taking coke because when he came back he was very alert and perky.”
well hopefully he will get some help.
I'm just here for the dogfights and prostitutes.
by Earl Montclair on Sep 11, 2010 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah seriously......He should get some Help!!!
I mean Rich people shouldn’t have to cut their own lines up…….. This dude needs a butler to do that shit for him. Whats this world coming to?
by the-gentle-way on Sep 12, 2010 2:35 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
She needs to be smacked in the face for slander
By a woman of course, but still a smack.
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by S.C. Michaelson on Sep 11, 2010 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Good recovery…Huerta was hanging on the corner waiting
by Steven Abbott on Sep 12, 2010 1:09 AM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
I’m only talking about this because Ricky is a danger to himself
Nothing to do with the money you’ll get from the NOTW I’m sure…
by Sink on Sep 12, 2010 12:27 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Now we all know why
his little chant is based off of Winter Wonderland…..
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by rkilla on Sep 11, 2010 11:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
If Chuck Liddell had been British...
…then he’d probably have gotten stung by a hacktacular tabloid like the News of the World, too. They like to pretend that going out, getting plastered and doing a few lines is a shocking thing to do because most of its readers are reactionary right wrong fools. The majority of Hatton’s British fans, especially the working class boxing fans, won’t give a damn – how much booze and did you can put away is seen as a badge of pride most of the time.
Eleven pints and seven lines?!! Ready the fainting couches!!! That sounds like a normal Saturday night for me.
Get rid of the ramp!
by ihateemo on Sep 11, 2010 11:28 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 4 recs
I’m hanging out with you next Saturday.
by John Nash on Sep 12, 2010 12:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions 7 recs
Good thing Chuck ain't British
I hear you can’t get Nyquil in the UK
Life is hard....get a fucking helmet.
"Hatton was also rumored to have been knocked out in a bar fight after having an argument over a fruit machine."
I laughed a lot when I read this.
Now I see why they sing that Ricky Hatton song to the tune of “Winter Wonderland”.
by Ozone on Sep 11, 2010 11:54 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Why so much hate,
Why so much hate, we don’t even have the same name? It’s going to be okay, no one thinks we are the same person, relax.
lol it’s just that back in 1995, i chose a character from MK obscure enough to avoid having people with a same/similar nick and combined it with snoop doggs name. and there you are mocking me.
by kanodogg on Sep 12, 2010 1:23 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
hmm?
you do know Jigoro Kano is The Founder of Judo and this is a martial arts site. Kano isn’t that obscure. But I am sure you know that and I just missed the sarcasm. so if so….. My B homie.
by the-gentle-way on Sep 12, 2010 2:30 AM EDT up reply actions
Damn
The dude talking just makes it sound sooo fucking boring.
yawn
As if many of the schmucks that slither around in the mainstream media don’t make a regular habit of this kind of behavior.
The jokes in this thread are worse than him doing coke.
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by Mike Fagan on Sep 12, 2010 1:06 AM EDT up reply actions 15 recs
I guess you can look at that way. You obviously only see this as a guy simply altering his state of mind in the privacy of his own dormitory without doing harm to anyone else, and that’s cool. The way I choose to look at as is that drugs, like cocaine, start off only doing harm to the individual taken the drug, but usually it never remains that way.
silly
you can apply that same logic to any action taken by an individual that does not live on an island isolated from all of society.
but you choose to only apply it to certain things you disagree with.
any personal choice that an individual takes will affect someone else… that cannot be a criteria used to limit freedom of choice.
What?
A singular person’s freedom can not come at the expense of others, so if someone’s choices have a negative affect on others, I will have a problem with it . I am not trying to be a meddler and I certainly don’t like to tell others how to live their lives.
Eh?
There are obviously outliers where it becomes complete abuse, but recreational use is extremely common. I work in a highly professional field and behavior like this is not anomalous. Besides, Hatton is from the north of England – getting loaded like this on the weekend is almost EXPECTED behavior.
Get rid of the ramp!
by ihateemo on Sep 12, 2010 6:10 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
But..
having a beer here and there is completely different than binging. I see what alcohol and drugs do to people on a daily basis. If it wasn’t there people would be doing something else though.
I do find it interesting that some people condone this behavior. I would love to take them to an open air drug market and show them what can eventually happen. If people think casual cocaine use won’t lead to other more dangerous avenues, they are sorely mistaken. Its a one way trip to fucking your life up and making family and friends lives miserable in the process.
I’d love to take you to an AA meeting and listen to all the drunks tell their sad stories.
If Ricky has an addiction problem, it’s in his and his family’s best interest that he takes care of it. But that’s their thing. Addiction and drug use are two entirely different things though.
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guessing from how long he's been doing it
and how much he does, I think it’s a pretty safe guess to say he’s addicted and not just using.
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by Cory Braiterman on Sep 12, 2010 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions
at one point in time i did a lot of cocaine and lemme tell ya
he wasn’t doin that much blow. looks to me like he picked up a pack to help him through a night of drinkin. it happens all the time but if you think that’s what a coke addiction looks like then you’re definetely mistaken. i would do seven lines before breakfast and it took him 10hrs to do seven lines.
just a guy havin a good time at no expense to anyone but himself
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by Johnathan Willis on Sep 12, 2010 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Right there with ya.
I use to do 7lines before I did 7 lines, then I did 7 more
Life is hard....get a fucking helmet.
cause you guys are assuming the snitch had the camera on him 24/7.
He got caught in camera doing 7 lines…doesn’t mean that’s the only times he did it… The girl also said Hatton kept on having “bathroom breaks” during the “cagefighting” event they were in.
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 12, 2010 10:30 PM EDT up reply actions
No, but you’d be a hypocrite to say that any sort of illicit drug use leads to severe drug problems, but drinking alcohol is fine.
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Well, I do think cocaine is more dangerous to play around with than alcohol, but alcohol can also present many problems as well. I don’t agree with cocaine usage being that it has been a source of ruin for many people, so I’m not going to act like using cocaine is cool and Ricky is a bad-ass for doing so. I don’t agree with it and I have no problem with saying so, but that’s is far as it goes for me. I’m not going to try to stop someone who is doing something that I don’t agree with if it doesn’t affect me. Ricky can do what he wants, it’s his life, but I don’t have to agree with the choices that he makes for himself, and that’s all I have been trying to say. And to answer your question whether or not I drink, no, I do not. I used to, but I felt that, given my family history, I was playing with fire.
The way I choose to look at as is that drugs, like cocaine, start off only doing harm to the individual taken the drug, but usually it never remains that way.
Meh.
Fatty foods and tobacco are a bigger drain on society than anything a few cokeheads might do. I don’t see you getting up on your soapbox over the dangers of cheeseburgers.
Why do famous people film themselves doing dumb shit?
It always bite’s them in the ass.
I honestly don’t care if he blows all his money on Coke. He’s an adult and is capable of making choices.
But why film it?…..although I guess it could have been a hidden camera in this case.
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Really a ounce top boxer and Celebrity getting caught blowing lines on Camera should not even make the news, Its not like it should or was the lead story on CNN/Forx News but it is pretty much news worthy. When you are a role model and kids look up to you I think you should be pretty dam careful on who you blow lines with and where – NO ?
Come on guys, you know the words...
THERE’S ONLYYYY ONEEEE RICKY HATTON
ONEEEEEEE RICKY HATTON
WALKING ALONG, SINGING A SONG
WALKING IN A HATTON WONDER—-SNIFF
THERE’SONLYONERICKYHATTONNN
ONERICKYHATTON—SNIFF
WALKINGASOnGSINGLINGALONG
WALKINAHATTONWONDER—- OHMYFUCKINGGOD LETS BUILD A FORT!
by Brent Ducharme on Sep 12, 2010 1:31 AM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Okay, I can't stop laughing at this fucking video
This is seirously the funniest thing I"ve seen all week. The guy’s voice is so dramatic, and I have no idea who Ricky hatton is, so I’m just watching some random white guy snort a bunch of coke.
“With expert ease, he casually inahles three lines of the drug…”
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How don’t you know Sniffy Ricky Hatton?
by Brent Ducharme on Sep 12, 2010 2:00 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I don’t knwo what he looks like, I mean. So to me, it’s just some white dude snorting coke while a dramatic British voice narrates.
"You hear people say, 'You're the greatest,' and all this stuff. It's BS. It's fake, it's all fake. You've just got to keep training as hard as you can. The only thing real is the fight, everything else is fake." - BJ Penn
I didn’t bother to watch yet, but I can imagine the drama. The British press.
by Brent Ducharme on Sep 12, 2010 2:08 AM EDT up reply actions
I thought the exact same thing
Makes me glad I don’t live in the UK, if everybody talks like that i’d fucking die from boredom.
you would die of boredom because your right everyone talks like that we have no such thing as dialect and accent over here. 100% queens english spoken by everyone.
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by The Omaplatapus on Sep 12, 2010 2:23 PM EDT up reply actions
great! boxing is on a suicide mission
Time to crossover boxers and start training at youre local mma gym
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by robinhorobson on Sep 12, 2010 4:21 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
First Mayweather getting arrested for a Domestic, and now Ricky Hatton snorting coke, and that isn’t even the biggest problem Boxing had this week.
I think they have a bigger issue, because the best HW in the World scored a KO victory this weekend, and it wasn’t covered on the front page of ESPN, Foxsports, or Yahoo sports, and Boxing takes another step toward becoming irrelevant.
I smell another ESPN 30 for 30. When boxers go wild.
by skyhawkmd on Sep 12, 2010 9:04 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I’ve got no love for cocaine, lost my dad to it and alcohol before he passed. With that said, a grown man should be able to do what he wants in the privacy of a hotel room…I might not endorse the activity, but I’m not a fan of fucking around with people’s personal lives. Behind closed doors is behind closed doors, if he was at a bar, fine, but this is obviously some really sneaky, underhanded shit.
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by Kaleb Kelchner on Sep 12, 2010 10:11 AM EDT reply actions 7 recs
well the whistle blower did say Ricky was snorting on the restroom
when they were watching a “cagefighting” event.
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 12, 2010 10:16 AM EDT up reply actions
I’m reccing this but if your British you know the NotW are notorious for sting stories. They broke the Pakistani cricket scandal which also took place in the privacy of a hotel room so these stings do have pros and cons, I guess.
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by The Omaplatapus on Sep 12, 2010 10:19 AM EDT up reply actions
so I'm guessing,
NoTW makes TMZ look bad at being sneaky and annoying?
by Anton Tabuena on Sep 12, 2010 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions
very
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by The Omaplatapus on Sep 12, 2010 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions
I'm impressed by the BE readership's encyclopedic knowledge of cocaine
all learned in books of course — at med school.
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by inadvertentgroinstrike on Sep 12, 2010 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah seriously
Y’all are a bunch of cokeheads.
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LEAVE RICKY ALONE
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by Cory Braiterman on Sep 12, 2010 12:51 PM EDT reply actions
the Fruit machine (homosexuality test), a device developed in Canada that could purportedly identify homosexual people – Wikipedia
Canadian’s don’t take kindly to brits knocking over their creations
by Steven Abbott on Sep 12, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
this
makes me like the hitman even more
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Trane UFC for maximum death fighting abilities, brah.
by doubleleg on Sep 12, 2010 3:38 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
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