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Ricky Hatton, Michael Moorer strike different tones in leading their class into boxing Hall of Fame
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FILE - Ricky Hatton, left, of England, lands a left to the face of Juan Urango, of Colombia, in the seventh round of their IBF Jr. welterweight title boxing match in Las Vegas, Jan. 20, 2007. Hatton was inducted Sunday, June 9, 2024, into the International Boxing Hall of Fame during a ceremony at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. - photo by AP Photo/ Jae C. Hong, File
Ricky Hatton laughed his way through his Hall of Fame induction speech, marveling at the places boxing took him and the thousands of his fans that would always follow. “I had some wars, didn’t I?” Hatton said Sunday. “When I think back at the Kostya Tszyu fight, Floyd Mayweather fight, Manny Pacquiao fight and my toughest fight, my divorce.” Michael Moorer took a more serious tone with a plea for safer conditions for boxers during and after their careers.