By Scott Gilfoid: Showtime will be broadcasting Ricky Hatton’s comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1, 21 KO’s) on November 24th at 5 p.m ET/PT fromthe Manchester Arena, in Manchester, UK. Get this, the fight is only 10 rounds, not 12 like normal big fights. For a main event that’s poor. Talk about stacking the deck on your favor.

I can understand why Hatton won’t want to fight 12, because it favors him in a short fight because he hasn’t fought for over 3 years, but come on what’s up with Showtime televising a main event that goes only 10 rounds?

As far as the fight goes, expect a lot of wrestling on the inside by Hatton and the referee letting him get away with it instead of breaking the action to give Senchenko room to throw his punches. I hope I’m wrong but I see Hatton all over Senchenko like glue or a sticky cobweb that he can’t off of him. Senchenko has no inside fighting skills and will be completely lost in this fight.

Showtime Sports Executive Vice President Stephen Espinosa said this about the Hatton-Senchenko fight: “This is a very dangerous opponent for a so-called comeback fight. Ricky is showing us that he wants to challenge himself.”

No, I don’t see it that way, Stephen. You need to look at Senchenko’s inflated resume and notice that he never fought anyone that you can call a good fighter during his career. He finally fought a simi-decent fighter in Paulie Malignaggi in his last fight last April and was completely blown out by Malignaggi, who can’t punch at all. This isn’t a “Dangerous opponent” for Hatton’s comeback; this is an easy opponent with a built up record filled with fluff.

What kind of record do you think Senchenko would have if he had fought the following welterweights during his 10 year pro career: Andre Berto, Victor Ortiz, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Thomas Dulorme, Manny Pacquiao, Devon Alexander, Jan Zaveck, Mike Jones, Marcos Maidana, Diego Chavez, Selcuk Aydin, Carson Jones, Ed Paredes, Antonin Decarie, Jo-Jo Dan, Pablo Cesar Cano and Josesito Lopez. I can tell you that Senchenko would lose to everyone of those fighters in my view and would have a record of 0-18, in addition to his knockout loss to the feather-fisted Malignaggi.

I’m telling you, Hatton is doing nothing by fighting Senchenko because he already got exposed by Malignaggi.

Now if Hatton really wanted to show boxing fans something for his comeback fight he’d take on one of those aforementioned fighters. Let’s see how well Hatton would do in his comeback fight against Maidana, Aydin, Lopez, Cano or Paredes. Those guys can punch and he’d have a real test on his hands.

When I heard that Hatton was looking to fight Senchenko, then fight Malignaggi for his WBA title and then retire, I was put off completely by this comeback of his. There’s no risk involved for Hatton because neither Senchenko nor Malignaggi can punch. Senchenko does have a high percentage of knockouts but if you look at who he fought to get most of those KOs you’ll notice that it’s obscure 2nd and 3rd tier opposition, not world class fighters.