Script's Right for Our 'Ricky Balboa' ; Underdog Hatton May Be the Good Guy Against the Brash Baddie but He has Plenty of Support to Make It a Fairytale Endingrboxing

Evening Standard - London › December 07, 2007

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RICKY HATTON and a couple of pals fancied a spot of blackjack here in the MGM Grand the other day and were tickled pink when they saw that Ricky's face, looking as crazed as something out of A Clockwork Orange, was staring up at them on the card table.

"You gentlemen here on vacation?" the croupier asked. Er, sort of. "Going to the fight?" Yup. "You supporting that Hatton guy?" Eventually, Ricky put the poor bloke out of his misery by revealing his true identity beneath that flippin' hat. "Mind you, then I couldn't hit a bloody thing. Let's hope I fight better tomorrow than I gambled," he laughed.

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Script's Right for Our 'Ricky Balboa' ; Underdog Hatton May Be the Good Guy Against the Brash Baddie but He has Plenty of Support to Make It a Fairytale Endingrboxing

When Hatton tells his stories with such innocent incredulity, shaking his head at how a failed carpet fitter from Hyde should tomorrow find himself "laying it all on the line" against a boxing great in the world's entertainment capital while earning Pounds 10million and a shot at the planet's finest fighter, it's then yo...

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