Ricky looking his usual best!

[skel1983]

No it really isnt

I get drunk all the time before a big fight and find myself stumbling around like an oath. As the fella in the vid has already pointed out ricky has done the hard work and is now enjoying the easy life

good to luck to him and long may he continue to get p*ssed

Do you drink everyday Hammer? I have heard and been told by people who no him very well he is living on the edge and it is becoming worrying.

Yes i do, not because i feel like i have to drink more that i enjoy it and it makes me feel good

Someone who drinks beer everynight and likes to get a tad tipsy is a heavy drinker. Someone that wakes up at 9am and feels the need to down a shot of whisky is an alcoholic

So do you turn up to work drunk? As Hatton has done on numerous occasions for me when you are doing this things are not all well.

[HattonTheHammer]

Do you drink everyday Hammer? I have heard and been told by people who no him very well he is living on the edge and it is becoming worrying.

Yes i do, not because i feel like i have to drink more that i enjoy it and it makes me feel good

Someone who drinks beer everynight and likes to get a tad tipsy is a heavy drinker. Someone that wakes up at 9am and feels the need to down a shot of whisky is an alcoholic

So do you turn up to work drunk? As Hatton has done on numerous occasions for me when you are doing this things are not all well.

When i used to work nights i often found myself having a few beers with the lads before a shift

Not quite rickys level you understand, but its nice to have a guiness before a 10hour shift

[CountryBoy]

I think Mora would beat Hatton

[skel1983]

I think Mora would beat Hatton

Genius.

[Hulk]

I think Mora would beat Hatton

Genius.

[Greig]

This thread had become a debate about drinking standards, and you've got to realise that everyone is different.

I'm a Scottish born Australian with British mates - as a result I've done massive amounts of binge drinking over the years. I was really fat a few years ago (when I was around 28, so I gave up smoking and started exercising. Having got to a stage where I was training pretty hard, if I'd go out and tear it up on the piss my running times were shit and I'd be shit in the gym, so I sacked drinking as well and now drink very occasionally. I had three pints of Guinness the other night because I had friends come to visit me, but that was the first drink I've had since early March when I went back to Perth to visit family.

Alcohol is massively prevalent in the UK, and there seems to be more UK sporting starts who battle the bottle than US ones. (Scott Harrison, Tony Adams, Gazza, George Best, even going as far back as Rangers' great Jim Baxter who drunk himself to death) - it's a cultural thing in the UK far more so than in other places.

I reckon people shouldn't judge. I've been falling down drunk before, and I'm sure it'll happen again to me in the future. If people want to drink and take drugs I'm fine with that, as long as it doesn't lead to violence or theft - do what you want to do.

Drugs/alcohol are only a problem for me if they start to fuck up your life - like you're stealing, or can't hold down your job or whatever.

I think what Ricky needs is a commentating gigs on these fights - he's a fantastic speaker and has a good sense of humour. I think he'd make a far better announcer than the ex-fighters they've got doing it now. Retirement (if that's what it is) is a hell of a hard adjustment to make for anyone (labourer/writer/plasterer) - but for professional boxers, former world champion professional boxers, I think it must be very difficult. As daft as it sounds, he needs a hobby. My dad is 65 this year, and I worry about him retiring because he doesn't really have any hobbies to keep him busy other than gambling on the horses

I think Hatton is just filling the void at the moment, hopefully he can find announcing/promotional career/anything to fill the gap...

[Master]

Hatton was at the Murray fight yesterday, there is no way he is comming back. He has put on a lot of weight and it has been too long.

[Boxer4life]

its crazy how some fighters are just self destructive.....tyson, hatton, valero......just a few, imagine a mike tyson in his youth with a floyd mayweather discipline