“My house is paid for, all my cars are paid are for, eight figures in the bank … it’s not hard to train but getting there is”

SOMEONE’S ‘0’ had to go when the undefeated Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton went toe-to-toe but both victor and vanquished now face tough decisions about their futures, career choices that will have a knock-on effect for some of boxing’s biggest names.

Manchester’s Hatton suffered his first defeat in 44 professional fights when he succumbed to a 10th round knockout by WBC welterweight champion Mayweather at the MGM Garden Arena in the early hours of yesterday morning. The thousands of Hatton fans that turned the 18,000-seat Las Vegas venue into a corner of England for the night were stunned as their man was caught with a crashing left hook, only to beat the count and then take two more before a straight right sent him to the canvas again as referee Joe Cortez waved the fight off a minute and 35 seconds into 10th.

Hatton, who had been cut at the corner of his right eye during the third round and docked a point in the sixth for hitting Mayweather on the back of his head, afterwards said he had not been hurt but having been behind on the three judges’ scorecards — they each only gave the Mancunian one round of the first nine — he had gone chasing a knockout and paid the price.