Hatton Comeback "BODY BLOW" !

PIC: bbc sports

RICKY "THE HITMAN" HATTON  v Vyacheslav Senchenko @ Manchester Arena

Saturday night saw the Return of Manchester Favourite Son Ricky Hatton up against Ukrainian Vyacheslav Senchenko in his come back fight at the Manchester Arena. The Ukrainian had a impressive record of 31w 0 D and 1 Lost.  That Lost coming in his last fight 6 months ago to the Magic Man Paulie Malignaggi in his home country.

The Sold out Manchester Arena was rocking with chants of "There`s only one Ricky Hatton" ringing around the arena all evening. Senchenko came out to his ringwalk to boos from a Pro-Hatton crowd and just to the fans even more he had under his Robe a Manchester United shirt! 

Hatton came out to a Raucous reaction from the 20,000+  fans as Blue moon was belted out.

As the referee gave the instructions both looked focused at the stare down and returned to their respective corners for last second advice. The early rounds Hatton shaded it with being more of the offensive Boxer of the two. 

Senchenko used his extra reach advantage to good use with stinging jabs which Hatton got caught with a fair few times in the fight as the Ukrainan fighter got into it from the 3rd round and as the fight went on so did the fighter from Donetsk. Hatton showed glimpses of the old Hatton magic with a couple of combos and hurt him a few times to which he gave a smile and waved him in.

As the fight reach round 6 the fight was getting away more from Hatton as he wasn`t doing the basic things and his opponent was catching him easily and the support from the fans was changing from Super energized to flat. Little bursts of "One Ricky Hatton" and "walking in a Hatton Wonderland" was sung more in hope to sting him into action as he was losing his way in the fight. As Hatton was again showing his difficulty in the Welterweight division much as he did when he was in him prime. 

Hatton was still coming forward, buy lacked his power punching he always had and never really troubled Senchenko, As the 9th round came Hatton may have arguably been ahead on points, but ONLY JUST. So when he was trying to find an opening Senchenko landed with the jab a couple of times and then landed his own crushing right body shot to the lower rib cage of Hatton who took it full on and had no choice but to take a knee and as he tried to stand up as the count got to 7 he realised he wasn`t going to be to carry on and let the ref Count to up to 10 and call for the end of the fight and Stun the whole arena into Silence.

After the fight there was little scare with Hatton as the paramedics came in as the punch to the ribs really did hurt the Manchester fighter. And as the Ukrainian celebrated the Fans sung songs towards their fallen hero and the fight shown as much heart and guts he had, he just looked outclassed by the Master .

After the fight he said in the interview 

 "I needed one more fight to see if I had still got it - and I haven't," he said. "I couldn't have done any better.

"A fighter knows and I know it isn't there any more. I have got to be a man and say it is the end of Ricky Hatton."

He didn`t disgrace himself in the fight and can hold his head up high and now Concentrate onto promoting the Young up and coming fighters he has. As one door closes shut for the ex World champion another opens in promoting and training his fighters.