Ricky Hatton has been told to quit the booze by Floyd Mayweather Snr if he is to prolong his career at the top.
Mayweather Snr has wise words for 'Fatton'
Ricky Hatton has been told to quit the booze between fights if he is to prolong his career at the top.
Trainer Floyd Mayweather Snr has revealed that he has already spoken to the best light-welterweight in the world about his lifestyle, expressing concern that continually gaining too much weight through alcohol and fast food will finally catch up with him.
Hatton has entered the ring for his last two fights wearing a puffed-up 'Ricky Fatton' costume, a gesture to the naysayers who have said for some time that his lifestyle does him few favours.
However, the 30-year-old from Manchester clearly benefited from working with Mayweather Snr for the first time, dismantling Paulie Malignaggi in 11 one-sided rounds on Saturday night, and the veteran trainer is hoping some of that discipline will rub off on Hatton in his time away from camp.
"It's something I'm very concerned about," he said. "I spoke to him about that and I talked to him again (before the fight).
"I told him 'you want to beat these guys, man, you want to continue to beat these guys like Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather Jr? You can forget about whupping those kind of guys if you're going to continue that kind of life, drinking and Ricky Fatton and all that'.
Save his career
"That's not going to work right here in the United States.
"It's very simple. He needs to do this to save his career, however much time he has left - it might be two or three years, but the less he gets into (drinking alcohol) the longer his career is going to last.
"Alcohol or liquor alone and eating bad, he's got to be leaving that stuff alone."
While Mayweather believes Hatton is prepared to make some adjustments to his lifestyle he said he doubted whether his fighter would go all the way with his suggestion and quit alcohol.
"He's got it in him to do a little (drinking) but if he does a little he's going to do it all.
"He's a man, I can't read his mind but he seemed like he was kind of considering it when I told him he wasn't going to be beating no Oscar or Floyd or anyone like that while he was doing this.
"He seemed sincere but who knows?"
