So the latest chapter in the Ricky Hatton story is upon us - and there are several excellent critics who feel this may even be the final one.
Plenty are tipping Hatton to lose. Paulie Malignaggi, they believe, is in the right place at the right time.
This is understandable, as there are many nagging and fairly negative questions waiting to be answered on Saturday night.
Hatton is now 30. He's been fighting for 20 years, 11 of which have been hardened professional ones. The days of ruthlessly dispatching rugged journeymen like Karl Taylor and Brian Coleman seem a lifetime ago, so too when he took out former domestic champions like Bernard Paul and Mark Winters; or when he survived those horrendous cuts to defeat Gilbert Quiroz out in Detroit and Jon Thaxton at Wembley, both shortly after the Millennium celebrations.
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