Couch & Hatton inducted into boxing hall of fame

British legends Jane Couch and Ricky Hatton person officially been inducted into nan International Boxing Hall of Fame.

The erstwhile world champions were honoured connected Sunday successful Canastota, New York.

Couch, 55, and 45-year-old Hatton subordinate icons specified arsenic Muhammad Ali and Floyd Mayweather successful receiving nan accolade.

Fleetwood-born Couch was nan first British female to beryllium inducted and only nan 10th female connected nan 'modern' list.

"I've sewage a wont of being nan first, haven't I?" she antecedently told BBC Sport.

Joining nan Britons successful nan 2024 people were American Michael Moorer, Mexico's Ana Maria Torres, Puerto Rican Ivan Calderon and American two-weight world champion Diego Corrales, who died successful 2007 aged 29 successful a motorcycle accident.

Couch retired from a trailblazing profession pinch 28 wins and 11 losses, winning world titles astatine light-welterweight and was nan first female to beryllium licensed to container professionally successful nan UK.

Aged 27, Couch took nan British Boxing Board of Control to tribunal to unit them to licence her, which ended a prohibition connected women fighting successful nan country.

"It's a spot surreal really - I mean there's Ali, [Joe] Frazier successful there," she said. "It takes a while to descend in. When you look astatine women's boxing successful nan UK, good I suppose I did do it [have a immense impact].

"I conscionable realised really difficult I did activity and had to recreation overseas to do it arsenic well. A batch of nan decisions that could person gone my measurement if I was astatine home.

"I was a spot of a warrior, stubborn, I conscionable wanted to make a quality and I surely did that.

"But 39 pro fights, 5 world titles, nan MBE and now nan Hall of Fame - wow."

Hatton joined adjacent friend Couch successful nan United States to be nan ceremony.

The Manchester autochthonal won world titles astatine light-welterweight and welterweight and was undefeated successful 43 fights earlier his brushwood pinch Mayweather successful 2007.

Hatton mislaid that bout, but is regarded arsenic 1 of nan best, and astir popular, boxers England has ever produced.

He retired pinch 45 wins and conscionable 3 defeats connected his record.

The 2024 inductees were decided by nan Boxing Writers Association of America and an world sheet of boxing historians.