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© Hatton Promotions / Mark Robinson Ricky Hatton has announced his retirement from professional boxing following a glorious career which saw him win world titles at light-welterweight and welterweight. ‘The Hitman’ will now concentrate on continuing to build Hatton Promotions that has produced many champions in just over two years.

Craig Watson’s revenge mission is little more than a week away, and the Hatton Promotions welterweight has no doubt about the outcome. “This is payback time,” promised Watson as he prepared for his hometown challenge against British welterweight champion Lee Purdy at Oldham Sports Centre on Saturday 16th July.

Lee Purdy believes he cannot go wrong in his British welterweight title defence against Craig Watson. The Colchester man believes training alongside European middleweight champion Darren Barker has fired him up to beat Watson again. Purdy, 24, caused a huge upset in April snatching the crown from Watson with a …

© Lawrence Lustig Lovemore N’dou believes unbeaten welterweight star Kell Brook is on the brink of winning a world title. Brook defeated the Australian-based South African in his first outing under new promoters Matchroom Sport, impressing all-comers in his first 12 round fight at the Hillsborough Leisure Centre in his …

Gary Buckland believes his victory on the Saul Alvarez-Ryan Rhodes undercard is the boost he needed to defeat British super-featherweight champion Gary Sykes, again. The Hatton Promotions hopeful outpointed local Jose Roberto Gonzalez on the bill in Guadalajara earlier this month. Buckland, 25, is back home in Cardiff waiting for …

In the realm of boxing series, none sticks to its mission statement as closely as the popular ShoBox: The New Generation, which celebrates its 10th anniversary on Friday, July 15, at 11:05 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) from Texas Station Gambling Hall & Casino in Las Vegas. The …

Craig Watson has revealed how his parents couldn’t sleep after he lost the British welterweight title to Lee Purdy. He gets an immediate chance of revenge when he faces the Essex man at Oldham Sports Centre on July 16. Purdy stopped Watson in five rounds in April causing the biggest …

It’s the biggest against the best and it doesn’t get much better or brighter. Boxing’s biggest star, undefeated Floyd “Money” Mayweather, and its newest star, WBC Welterweight Champion “Vicious” Victor Ortiz, will align their super powers when they meet in “Star Power: Mayweather vs. Ortiz.” The mega-fight, which will be …

Thursday night, at the Park Hotel, Sheffield (Chesterfield), Richard Poxon hosted a ‘sell-out’ Charity Fund-raising Fight-night and Dinner show. The 3-card event featured local Sheffield boxers and raised money for the Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. The main event saw Adam ‘The Bomber’ Etches make short work of Bobby Wood …

Craig Watson has stoked the flames ahead of his British welterweight championship rematch against Lee Purdy telling the Essex man: “You’re not that good.” Purdy caused the biggest domestic boxing upset so far this year in April stopping Watson in five rounds, taking his treasured domestic title. And Hatton Promotions …

Anthony Crolla, Joe Murray and Martin Murray have signed contract extensions with Hatton Promotions. And Hatton Promotions President Ricky Hatton purred: “They will all be world champions.” The terrific trio celebrated their new deals by storming to impressive wins at Wigan’s Robin Park Arena on Saturday night.

Click the above Image for more Photos from this Event The latest Hatton Promotions event on Saturday night saw some great fight action from it’s seven-fight card. The show at the packed Robin Park Sports Centre in Wigan included three Title Bouts and had a fantastic atmosphere. At the Show, …