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What did Hingis do? I hope it was star in a porn vid...send me a link if so.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:What did Hingis do? I hope it was star in a porn vid...send me a link if so.

Failed a drugs test, cocaine. Got a 2 year ban - denied the accusation but announced her retirement. There is mounting speculation that she might comeback though... which will be nice to watch at Wimbledon.

Ricky Hatton first showed what he was made of in 1996 when he faced Jurgen Brahmer barely weeks after the big German had starched him inside a round at Blackpool in their junior amateur days. The rematch, in Italy, went the full three rounds, with Hatton conceding an 8-2 decision. It was evidence of the true fighting spirit of a chirpy, chubby teenager from Manchester who would graduate to ABA champion, British champion, world champion at two weights, and one of the most popular figures in the entire history of domestic boxing.
"Hitman" Ricky recently confirmed his retirement from the sport at the relatively young age of 31 but he ducked no-one in a paid career spanning 12 years and defined himself as a relentless aggressor who never lost in this country and, indeed, lost only two of 47 fights altogether – both in the States against true boxing greats.
Inside the ring, Ricky displayed a steel that belied his wisecracks, his open, friendly demeanour, his ability to mix in any walk of life. He began working life as a carpet-fitter, for which he had no aptitude whatsoever, and it was always a case of boxing or bust. That hunger drove Hatton to victory in fights he looked destined to lose against the menacing likes of Jon Thaxton and Eamonn Magee, one of whom ripped a hole in his head, the other who dropped him – hard, both in the first round. Hatton’s penchant for pressure, for body shots, for defying the biggest blows of his opponents and for outlasting them, was never more evident than against Aussie great Kostya Tszyu on the way to the IBF light-welterweight title on a hot night in Manchester in June 2005. Television images of an exhausted, battered Tszyu on his stool before the start of the 12th round remain etched in the memory. Tszyu failed to answer the bell.
Ricky will always be remembered for that, our own Ali-Frazier III, but he shrugged off more cuts to outscore Luis Collazo in a bruising encounter for the WBA welterweight title a year later in the States, where he was never really able to show his best form, although he did crunch Mexican iron man Jose Luis Castillo there with a body shot. However, he was later picked off and stopped by the gifted Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas in a fight that – for a few heady weeks – brought boxing back to the man in the street.
Ricky, who went in at 43-0 that night, came back with a couple of solid wins at light-welterweight but something seemed to have left him. He was wobbled by Juan Lazcano on the way to a 12-round decision in Manchester in front of an amazing crowd of 55,000 and then returned to the States and took 11 rounds to stop feather-fisted Paulie Malignaggi, but a second Las Vegas superfight saw him smashed in just two rounds by southpaw Filipino freak Manny Pacquiao, a defeat which led to his retirement, a defeat which Ricky has really struggled to live with.
Ricky Hatton was not an all-time great but he is an all-time great British fighter and, right to the end, Hatton proved utterly and completely fearless.

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Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:What did Hingis do? I hope it was star in a porn vid...send me a link if so.

Failed a drugs test, cocaine. Got a 2 year ban - denied the accusation but announced her retirement. There is mounting speculation that she might comeback though... which will be nice to watch at Wimbledon.

Did she now? What a naughty Swiss miss. Always had a hard, I mean, soft spot for Hingis.

Yes her exit n Strictly last year was a disappointment.

DavidPayne wrote:Yes her exit n Strictly last year was a disappointment.

Was she in Strictly? FFS, the one time I would have watched!

You'd have to be quick, she was first out. Or to use a phrase which might be familiar to your role playing fantasy, In Strictly she came last.