By Scott Gilfoid: Former two division world champion Ricky Hatton (45-2, 32 KO’s) reportedly plans on retiring if and when he picks up another world title, according to an interview of Hatton at the Telegraph. Hatton, 33, has a fight scheduled next month against a recently beaten up and badly exposed Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1, 21 KO’s) at the Manchester Arena (formerly M.E.N Arena), Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom.

Following that fight, if Hatton doesn’t get smashed, the word is he’ll likely face WBA World welterweight paper champion Paulie Malignaggi in a rematch. Hatton already beat Malignaggi four years ago by an 11th round TKO, so won’t be seeing much of a risk for Hatton.

I guess from there Hatton would retire if he beats Malignaggi, and that would end his so-called comeback. That’s a pretty sad comeback if you ask me because he had talked about wanting to fight Amir Khan, Kell Brook, among other fighters and if he just stops at Malignaggi, that’ll be pitiful in my eyes. It’ll just look like Hatton came back for the money and the easy path instead of something really challenging like trying to fight the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, Danny Garcia and Tim Bradley.

Hatton said to the Telegraph.co.uk “Win lose or draw on Nov 24, if it’s not there, and if I’m not up to it, I’ll walk away, too. I’ll have done what I needed to do.”

I’m behind Hatton on that. There’s definitely no point in him hanging around if he has to struggle against a mediocre fighter like Senchenko, who was recently easily beaten by Malignaggi. I honestly don’t know how Hatton could even bother fighting Senchenko after how badly he was beaten by Malignaggi. That would automatically disqualify him in my book because Malignaggi is mediocre as well, so all Hatton is proving is he can beat an average fighter who was exposed by another average fighter in Malignaggi.

But talk about a sad comeback. Hatton retiring if he beats Malignaggi. That’s incredibly disappoint but also not surprising as well. I never expected Hatton to face anyone good in his comeback, and it’s right up his alley that he ends up his career in a fight against Malignaggi instead of then guys that whipped him in Mayweather and Pacquiao. Hatton might as well have stayed retired because he isn’t going to prove anything beating Malignaggi again or the guy that Malignaggi easily beat in former WBA paper champion Senchenko.