Ricky Hatton Tickets

Inside Lines: Ringside ticket for Murray – if he isn't in his own title fight

David Haye reckons some 15,000 Brits will be cheering him on in his world heavyweight title fight with Wladimir Klitschko in Hamburg next Saturday, making it the biggest mass migration of fight fans since Ricky Hatton's supporters flooded Las Vegas for his bouts with Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao.

"I know how Seb Coe must feel," he tells us. "People keep coming up to me in the street and asking how they can get tickets."

Haye's allocation of 7,000 went weeks ago, as did all seats on flights to Hamburg. He believes at least twice that number have obtained them through German websites (a good source of Olympic tickets too, by the way). It is also expected that TV pay-per-view sales will hit a record high, outdoing those for the Lewis-Tyson fight eight years ago.

One ringside ticket that will be going spare is in the possession of Haye's chum Andy Murray, an avid boxing fan, should he be otherwise engaged at Wimbledon.

Westminster wallopers

On the vexed subject of tickets, those still available for 2012 surprisingly include boxing at the Excel Centre – who would have thought handball and water polo more popular with the punters?

But maybe not for long after last week's results in Ankara, where Britain had its best-ever European Championships with four medals, including golds for Welsh fighters Andrew Selby and Fred Evans.

This is further evidence of the excellent work done by Rob McCracken, one of only a handful of home-grown coaches guiding our Olympic sports. It also underlines that political pressure must be applied to rescind the ridiculously anachronistic rule revived by the international governing body AIBA which will ban McCracken from the corner both in the upcoming World Championships and the Olympics because he is also involved in professional boxing as trainer to the world super-middleweight champion Carl Froch.

No doubt this will be on the agenda when Charlotte Leslie MP hosts a Westminster gathering tomorrow evening as the new chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Boxing Group, at which McCracken will be speaking together with some of the young medallists he has nurtured.

No one for tennis?

Even the Lawn Tennis Association's chief Roger Draper, whose perpetually rose-tinted specs remain smugly perched on his nose despite the alarming state of British tennis at grass-roots level, must be shocked at the results of a new survey which shows just how little British kids care about the sport, even with Wimbledon in full swing.

Ricky Hatton talks Ryan Rhodes Loss To Saul Alvarez | Fighthub TV

Our Fight Hub TV cameras flew across the pond and met up with boxing great Ricky Hatton as he talked to us about a certain fighter under his promotional stable.

Ryan Rhodes fought a valiant twelve rounds with WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez ten days ago in Guadalajara, Mexico. Though many were picking for the bout to be competitive, Alvarez showed his growth as a fighter and took the bout to Rhodes, knocking him down multiple times before getting the stoppage over Rhodes in round twelve.

As a fighter under Hatton Promotions, Ricky Hatton’s promotional company he had a vested interest in the outcome of the Alvarez/Rhodes bout. Hatton talks to us about his thoughts on the bout, what will happen to Rhodes next and more!

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