Frank Warren reflects on Ricky Hatton's career-defining win vs Kostya Tszyu 15 years on
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dailystar.co.ukIt is almost 15 years since Ricky Hatton's greatest night in the ring. Or should I say greatest fight in the early hours of the morning!
It was June 2005 when we got pound-for-pound star Kostya Tszyu to Manchester. Hatton had been a sensation in his home city for years but it was time to make him a star worldwide.
They say timing is everything in boxing and it is as much about it inside the ring as out. And we got our timing spot on for Hatton to face Tszyu for the IBF light-welterweight title.
The advice from myself was for Hatton to get into a mandatory position to force the Russian-Australian into the fight. Hatton could have fought him earlier but we wanted to wait for everything to be spot on so after he beat Ray Oliveira we knew he
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