{"id":34766,"date":"2025-09-14T21:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ricky-hatton-wayne-rooney-pays-tribute-to-friend-and-former-world-champion-boxer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:27:30","slug":"ricky-hatton-wayne-rooney-pays-tribute-to-friend-and-former-world-champion-boxer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/ricky-hatton-wayne-rooney-pays-tribute-to-friend-and-former-world-champion-boxer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton: Wayne Rooney pays tribute to friend and former world champion boxer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rooney was 21 when he helped carry Hatton&#8217;s championship belts into the ring alongside legendary Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera before the Castillo fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was one of the most nervous I have ever been,&#8221;  said Rooney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was in the pool all day in Vegas, it was hot, and my face got a bit burnt, but then I remember standing in the dressing room and being nervous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He hadn&#8217;t lost at that time. I was thinking, &#8216;He does not lose tonight. Is it on you? Is it your fault?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton went on to retain his IBO light welterweight crown with a stunning fourth-round knockout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rooney said they went to a beach party afterwards with family and had &#8220;a great day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;So often you see any type of celebrity who are not really relatable, but Ricky was certainly relatable and good fun to be around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cqlz674elldo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooney was 21 when he helped carry Hatton&#8217;s championship belts into the ring alongside legendary Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera before the Castillo fight. &#8220;It was one of the most nervous I have ever been,&#8221; said Rooney. &#8220;I was in the pool all day in Vegas, it was hot, and my face got a bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34768,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34766\/revisions\/34768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}