Nobody who knew Ricky Hatton well expected to wake up to see his picture slapped across the front of a London newspaper, snorting what appeared to be a line of cocaine while in a hotel room.
But The News of the World in London published salacious photographs of the popular former world champion boxer in a Manchester, England, hotel room, engaging in what seemed extremely out of character behavior.
?What surprised me about Ricky was using the drugs,? said Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, who promoted several Hatton fights and offered to Hatton?s family to arrange for him to be treated at the Betty Ford Clinic. ?I think that surprised a lot of people, including his family. Ricky liked to have a good time, but I never knew he was using drugs. We were all shocked by that.?
