For any sporting Mancunian, 15 years ago it was the ultimate ‘I-was-there moment’. Around 22,000 fans filled Manchester’s MEN Arena, although many times more have subsequently claimed they were there to see Ricky Hatton beat Kostya Tszyu.
The fight did not start until 2am for US TV, yet the atmosphere was as febrile as for any Manchester derby ever. They had come to see if one of their favourite sporting sons could beat the legend Tszyu and realise his dream of becoming world champion.
Hatton did not just defeat Tszyu, he broke the pound-for-pound great to take his place among British boxing’s immortals. The crowd’s eardrum-bursting roar when Tszyu failed to come out for the 12th would have been heard back in his home in Sydney. “People to
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