{"id":45400,"date":"2012-10-27T01:38:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T05:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=24107"},"modified":"2012-10-27T01:38:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T05:38:50","slug":"floyd-mayweather-jr-manny-pacquiao-shocking-news-ricky-hitman-hatton-returns-british-boxing-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=45400","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Mayweather JR – Manny Pacquiao SHOCKING NEWS – Ricky "Hitman" Hatton Returns – BRITISH BOXING NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Former Two-Time World Champion and British superstar Ricky \u201cThe Hitman\u201d Hatton returns to SHOWTIME\u00ae for his first fight in 3\u00bd years when he faces former WBA welterweight titleholder Vyacheslav Senchenko on Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, live at 5 p.m. ET\/PT (delayed on the West Coast).<\/p>\n

The scheduled 10-round welterweight fight will be a special, afternoon edition of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING followed by a replay that night on SHOWTIME EXTREME\u00ae. <\/p>\n

This will be the first comeback fight for Hatton, the offensive-minded 34-year-old slugger, since he retired following his loss to Manny Pacquiao on May 2, 2009, with a record of 45-2 with 32 KOs.<\/p>\n

Senchenko (32-1, 21 KOs) is a risky opponent who went undefeated in 31 fights before losing the WBA Welterweight World Title to Paulie Malignaggi in his most recent outing last April 29. The bout in Hatton\u2019s hometown will be only the third professional Senchenko fight outside his native Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very dangerous opponent for a so-called comeback fight,\u201d said Stephen Espinoza, Executive Vice President and General Manager of SHOWTIME Sports. \u201cRicky is showing us that he wants to challenge himself and immediately put himself back in the mix with the top 147 pounders. There are a number of exciting matchups in this division, and with a win Ricky will be right back in upper echelon of the division.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of Britain\u2019s all-time most popular fighters, the crowd-pleasing Hatton is a former IBF and WBA 140-pound champion and WBA 147-pound titlist. Eighteen thousand tickets were purchased for the Nov. 24 event even before an opponent was announced.
\nHatton battled depression, suicidal thoughts and ballooning weight after going into a self-imposed exile following the loss to Pacquiao three-and-a-half-years-ago.
\n\u201cPeople ask if I should come back, will I win, can I be world champ again. They don\u2019t get it,\u2019\u2019 Hatton said. \u201cI\u2019ve already won. I\u2019m here. I saved myself. The end of the \u2018Ricky Hatton Story\u2019 was not being knocked out by Pacquiao. I\u2019m looking forward to getting back in the ring and showing what I can do. I want to get back in the title mix, but you can\u2019t do that by taking easy fights. That\u2019s why I\u2019m taking on this guy.\u2019\u2019
\nHatton will be fighting for the 10th time on SHOWTIME, and the seventh time on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING (he fought three times on ShoBox: The New Generation). He registered the most noteworthy victory of his career in his last appearance on the network when he captured the IBF 140-pound title with an 11th-round TKO over Hall of Famer Kosta Tszyu on June 4, 2005, in Manchester.<\/p>\n

If triumphant on Nov. 24, his first fight in 42\u00bd months, Hatton could be looking at several high-profile return bouts in the near future, including a rematch with Malignaggi, the current WBA welterweight champion, who Hatton defeated via 11th-round TKO on Nov. 22, 2008.<\/p>\n

With a victory, Hatton would also keep alive his chances for much-desired return bouts against the only two fighters who beat him, Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.<\/p>\n

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Former Two-Time World Champion and British superstar Ricky \u201cThe Hitman\u201d Hatton returns to SHOWTIME\u00ae for his first fight in 3\u00bd years when he faces former WBA welterweight titleholder Vyacheslav Senchenko on Saturday, Nov. 24, at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, live at 5 p.m. ET\/PT (delayed on the West Coast). The scheduled 10-round welterweight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3349,2044,3164,3356,2424],"class_list":["post-45400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-floyd","tag-hatton","tag-manny","tag-mayweather","tag-pacquiao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400","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=45400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}