Boxing: Final countdown.BOXING: Ricky Hatton is planning to put 'the final touches' to his career before hanging up his gloves as 'a people's champion'. The 29-year-old Mancunian will defend his reputation as the world's finest light-welterweight when he takes on Mexican Juan Lazcano at the City of Manchester Stadium Manchester City F.C. • • [ on May 24. The contest has been billed as his 'homecoming' fight after December's unsuccessful challenge of pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas. And the 'Hitman' revealed there are still a few items on the agenda before he can call it a day satisfied with his legacy. Hatton said: "It is now about the last few goals of my career, putting the final touches to it before I hang the gloves up. "I want to be remembered as a fans' favourite, a people's champion."" Chief among those goals are a rematch with Mayweather and a chance to top the bill at the prestigious Madison Square Garden Current arenas in the National Hockey League Western Conference Eastern Conference in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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