MANCHESTER, England -- Kostya Tszyu will defend his world light-welterweight title against British challenger Ricky Hatton in Manchester on June 4. Australian-based Russian Tszyu is widely ...

Ricky Hatton is a British boxing legend who fought some of the best the sport had to offer, including Floyd Mayweather.

Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn have both promoted many of the biggest names to ever compete inside a British boxing ring.

Aussie boxing great Kostya Tszyu had Hall of Fame career Tim ... after suffering a career-ending pummelling at the hands of Ricky Hatton in 2005. Tszyu was only a soccer-loving 10-year-old when ...

They were two warriors of British boxing separated by a few years and the Pennine mountain chain - Ricky Hatton of Manchester and Sheffield's Kell Brook.

Ricky 'The Hitman' Hatton rose from the Hattersley council ... but his IBF light-welterweight title victory against Kostya Tszyu in Manchester in 2005 was his greatest night.

Motorcycling champ Carl “Foggy” Fogarty and boxing icon Ricky “The Hitman” Hatton ... pinnacle of his career in 2005 by defeating Kostya Tszyu for the International Boxing Federation ...