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Here's the link:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/att ... 1142983558

Until now, I always thought Hatton never smoked, so what's with the cigarette?

I remember Billy Graham saying he never worked with fighters that smoked. Maybe it was just a one off. I think you have to be a member of Eastside to view the link as well.

The state of Billy's fingers you would swear down he is a sixty a day man himself!

Graham does smoke, I heard him say it in an interview.

Can't imagine that Ricky does though.

Not with that engine.

I havent seen the photo but surely its a 'staged' comedy photo taken down his local?

Can some one post it here, I cant get on eastside?!

I signed up to eastside just for the pic but can't find it.

Yeh someone post the pic in here, use the "URL" tag

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Graham does smoke, I heard him say it in an interview.

Smoking's not all he does

boxingchat wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Graham does smoke, I heard him say it in an interview.

Smoking's not all he does

Correct.

He also trains the undisputed world No 1 at 140lbs!

boxingchat wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Graham does smoke, I heard him say it in an interview.

Smoking's not all he does

Yup, he regularly shags your mum.

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/att ... 1142983558

Reckon he's just posing with Graham's cig for a laugh.

And obviously a tall latte frappe in his other hand.

Smoking's good for ya

Chesney_Chambers wrote:Smoking's good for ya

Yup, a little tar never hurt anyone...

TerribleTerry wrote:

boxingchat wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:Graham does smoke, I heard him say it in an interview.

Smoking's not all he does

Correct.

He also trains the undisputed world No 1 at 140lbs!

What? has Floyd sacked his uncle? Where did you hear this?

TerribleTerry wrote:Can't imagine that Ricky does though.

Not with that engine.

I havent seen the photo but surely its a 'staged' comedy photo taken down his local?

Can some one post it here, I cant get on eastside?!

Carlos Monzon smoked 40 a day and was never short of puff....it is possible, though I've never heard Hatton was a smoker.

As for whatever else Graham gets up to, I'm not really that bothered, he's a trainer, not an athlete, he's not required to be a paragon of virtue, and let's face it, boxers are hardly known for being the most fastidious trainers or clean livers anyway. Come to think of it, neither are most sportsmen.

Whilst it's never advisable, plenty of athletes have been known to smoke. Monzon, as James mentioned is probably the best boxing example. Johan Cruyff was a 40 a day man, as was 80's football superstar Socrates. Scott Gibbs was known to puff on a few fags after a game for the Lions. Flintoff smokes, or has been known to.

My point is, you think that top-flight sportsmen would never do it, but a lot of them do. For the record, I think the Hatton photo is a posed job with one of Billy's fags, but you never know. Of course, as a smoker myself, maybe I'm just trying to convince myself that I can still be healthy despite the tabs.......

Imagine, if you stopped smoking, you'd put on loads of weight. Just think of it as 'smoking yourself thin', works for me

Good on him.

http://img123. .us/img123/1933/hatton2db.jpg

yeh, all those great fighters loved a ciggy and nobody mentioned JOE FRAZIER

Manuel Madina is another fighter who smoked, whilst not in heavy training at least, but these successful boxers are more the exception than the rule.

Mick Sturbs wrote:

TerribleTerry wrote:

boxingchat wrote: Smoking's not all he does

Correct.

He also trains the undisputed world No 1 at 140lbs!

What? has Floyd sacked his uncle? Where did you hear this?

Anyone who can get past the combined might of Bruseles, Corley and Gatti surely HAS to be the divisions No1 eh Mick?!

Lionel Rose's trainer got him off the smokes by getting him onto a pipe When Rose turned up in Japan to fight Harada they couldn't believe their eyes at the sight of a fighter smoking a pipe. The Japanese stared in wonderment as only the japanese can

Rick doesn't smoke, the cig was Billy's.

states wrote:Whilst it's never advisable, plenty of athletes have been known to smoke. Monzon, as James mentioned is probably the best boxing example. Johan Cruyff was a 40 a day man, as was 80's football superstar Socrates. Scott Gibbs was known to puff on a few fags after a game for the Lions. Flintoff smokes, or has been known to.

My point is, you think that top-flight sportsmen would never do it, but a lot of them do. For the record, I think the Hatton photo is a posed job with one of Billy's fags, but you never know. Of course, as a smoker myself, maybe I'm just trying to convince myself that I can still be healthy despite the tabs.......

xcan confirm freddie smokes, actually a lot fo cricketers do.

seen butcher ricky clark obviously tuffers all smoke.

Serge Blanco was another 40 a day man.