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Ricky Hatton has fond memories of knocking out Chavo Guerrero on Monday Night Raw.
“The Hitman” (no relation to Bret Hart) appeared in the WWE during the dreaded “guest host era”. During an episode of Raw in 2010 in Sheffield, Ricky Hatton was made the guest General Manager of Raw. He wasted no time in booking himself against Chavo Guerrero in a match.
It wasn’t the most exciting bout. It mainly consisted of Guerrero trying to stay away from the former boxing champion, managing to get him in a wrestling hold only once. Hatton eventually hit a big punch on Chavo Guerrero, knocking him out and winning the boxer vs wrestler match.
Ricky Hatton recently stat down with ActionNetwork and talked about his brief foray into the WWE. He revealed that he had trouble learning the script for the pre-match promo. Hatton also admitted he may have punched Chavo Guerrero harder than he was supposed to.
“It was a number of years ago and they contacted me as it was in Sheffield Arena. They wanted me to be the General Manager which I knew what it was. You pick the fights, and I knew that because my son Campbell was massively into the WWE at the time. So, when they contacted me, I thought Campbell would love that, so I said yes, absolutely.”
“When I got there, I thought I would just say he fights him, but it was a full-blown script. You get in the ring with the Big Show, and I thought how I will remember this, I can’t remember my name let alone a full script. I did it and it was brilliant.”
Ricky Hatton: I Think I Hit Chavo Guerrero A Little Bit Too Hard
“I did a ‘Wrestler vs Boxer’ fight against Chavo Guerrero and then the Big Show and he was calling me a little man and leaning over me. I looked at Campbell who was in the front row and was only nine at the time, he was looking at me worried, but I said to him, ‘Campbell, I’m okay son’.It is brilliant and I don’t follow it so much these days but used to when Campbell was into it and the show they put on and string it together, you can’t fault it.”
“Chavo Guerrero said, I will go behind you and I’ll throw you up and grab you by the shorts and then you turn me, spin me and then hit me. I think it hit him a little bit harder than I should have done to be honest with you. If you hear the sound of the punch, the noise from it… and he went down and got counted out (of the fight). It’s something I will always remember. What I did in my boxing career will always stand out but outside of that, I will always look back and smile at it.”
