By Scott Gilfoid: Ricky Hatton probably should have had some patience before he started flapping his gums about retirement immediately after his loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko last Saturday night because I’m betting right now that Hatton is already having second thoughts about his decision after having seen the fight and thought about it. Hatton’s British fans don’t have to shed a tear for him, because he’ll be back. I feel it in my bones. When fighters saying their retiring nowadays it frequently means little more then they’ve decided to take a short vacation from the sport.

I don’t for a second believe that Hatton is going to stay retired. Sure, he looked bad in losing the fight, but honestly he didn’t look that much different from his previous fights in his career. The only difference I saw was the lack of wrestling, his accuracy being off, as well as his stamina.

Hatton could take care of the stamina issues by fighting four to six quick tune-ups starting with 6 round bouts and working his way gradually back up to 12 round fights. Hatton would fix his stamina and accuracy at the same time. The wrestling would be the easy part, because all he has to do is take a look at some of his old fights and he’d be able to spot his old form and then mimic in his fights. But seriously, I see Hatton definitely changing his mind about his retirement and soon coming back.

With all the good cash that Hatton makes for each of his fights, he could make big bank just fighting 6 to 8 round fights in 2013, and then be ready to fight for a world title in early 2014. I mean, I doubt Paulie Malignaggi will still be the WBA welterweight champion by then, so there won’t be an easy strap to win. But Hatton should focus more on fighting at 140 and look to go after Lamont Peterson or Amir Khan, if he captures a paper title.