Biggest fight starts now for dejected Hatton

Once the pain of the dug left hand which dumped Ricky Hatton down for the count on his boxing comeback has eased, the tremendously popular Manchester ’hitman’ must gear up for the fight of his life.

Hatton cut a dejected figure in the ring after recovering from the crunching body shot which gave Vyacheslav Senchenko victory, stunning a previously raucous, 16,000-strong MEN Arena crowd into silence and sending the 34-year-old back into retirement.