{"id":16621,"date":"2011-10-04T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2011-10-04T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T16:23:52","slug":"ashley-theophane-ricky-hatton-connectiion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16621","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Theophane &#8211; Ricky Hatton CONNECTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16621\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=16621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12553\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Ashley Theophane Header (Copy)\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Ashley-Theophane-Header-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Ashley Theophane has revealed that the opportunity to work with Ricky Hatton persuaded him to join Hatton Promotions. The British light-welterweight champion stunned the boxing world last week when he signed a three year deal with Hatton\u2019s mushrooming company. Other big name promoters were also hunting \u2018The Treasure\u2019, but Ash the Bash said: \u201cI feel with Ricky Hatton behind me, I can achieve anything. Ricky believes in my talent and I feel like he can get me a shot at the world title. He has been where I want to go on the world scene.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hitman\u2019 Hatton was eager to sign a world class light-welterweight who could emulate him and unify the 140lb division, and believes he has captured a real gem.<\/p>\n<p>Theophane added: \u201cRicky was the king of the 140lb Division and he has passed the mantle over to me. I want to fight the world\u2019s best and Ricky can make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the next 12 months I want to win the Lonsdale belt outright and fight Erik Morales or Timothy Bradley for the world title. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Theophane, 31, will make the second defence of his domestic crown when he meets Nigel Wright later this year.<\/p>\n<p>He turned professional in June 2003 and captured the British title at Wembley Arena in February by outpointing Lenny Daws.<\/p>\n<p>Theophane returned to the same venue in July and made a successful defence stopping Welshman Jason Cook in ten one-side rounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Secret-Forris-Day-Jr\/dp\/B004GLZ4YG\/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1309134704&amp;sr=1-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/family-secret-ad-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/BookStore\/BookDetail.aspx?Book=232300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11989\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"boxing interviews ad bio\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/boxing-interviews-ad-bio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/RingsideReport1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11987\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"family secret ad pic\" src=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/twitter-ad-link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?page_id=1371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11990\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"advertise header2\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/advertise-header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Theophane has revealed that the opportunity to work with Ricky Hatton persuaded him to join Hatton Promotions. The British light-welterweight champion stunned the boxing world last week when he signed a three year deal with Hatton\u2019s mushrooming company. Other big name promoters were also hunting \u2018The Treasure\u2019, but Ash the Bash said: \u201cI feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1471,609],"class_list":["post-16621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-ashley-theophane","tag-ricky-hatton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}