{"id":264212,"date":"2025-07-14T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264212\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:29:11","slug":"campbell-hatton-son-of-boxer-ricky-hatton-retires-at-24-years-old-to-become-solar-panel-installer-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/264212\/","title":{"rendered":"Campbell Hatton: Son of boxer Ricky Hatton retires at 24 years old to become solar panel installer | Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campbell Hatton has retired from boxing at 24 years old to become a solar panel installer, according to his father two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton.<\/p>\n<p>Hatton last fought in October in a second consecutive defeat to James Flint and finishes his professional career with a 14-2 record.<\/p>\n<p>He won his first 12 fights and was part of the same management as Anthony Joshua before his career petered out over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, Campbell won&#8217;t fight again,&#8221; Ricky Hatton, who will ironically return to boxing in December, told Boxing Now when asked about his son&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you know, he didn&#8217;t have much amateur experience. He gave it a go in the amateurs, and then he went pro and gave it a go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He fought for the Area title and got beaten. I thought he lost it to be fair. But then he fought the same lad straight away after.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought he won the second one; they were both very close fights. But he lost a little bit of his mojo, and then a few things went wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-campbell-hatton-box_5523524.jpg\"   alt=\"Campbell Hatton and Sonni Martinez  Final Weigh In ahead of their Lightweight fight  tomorrow night at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.24 September 2021.Picture By EDDIE KEOGH Matchroom Boxing\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Campbell Hatton fought at lightweight during his career<\/p>\n<p>Ricky, who turns 47 in October, became his son&#8217;s trainer in March earlier this year before they discussed retirement.<\/p>\n<p>He says the death of one of Campbell&#8217;s best friends impacted him in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He went through a bit for a time, and he was in the gym, and his heart wasn&#8217;t in it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said, &#8216;Listen son, you should be very proud of yourself, you have given it a go, but if you have lost your mojo, you need to get out&#8217;. You can&#8217;t play boxing, you can play any other sport. So I advised him, and now he is doing solar panels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The finals of the Riviera Box Cup will be streamed live on Sky Sports on August 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stream Sky Sports with NOW &#8211; No contract, cancel anytime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campbell Hatton has retired from boxing at 24 years old to become a solar panel installer, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-264212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114851595132357357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}