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Hatton ready for Malignaggi showdown

Ricky Hatton believes he will produce the best performance of his career when he meets Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday night.

Hatton, 30, returns to the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night to defend his Ring Magazine light-welterweight title, almost a year after suffering his first defeat in the same ring to welterweight kingpin Floyd Mayweather Jr.

"I need to be at my best because I'm fighting my nearest rival in the division - and I will be at my best," said Hatton.

"I'm back down at my normal weight and back at the MGM Grand for the first time in a year, and I hope I have better luck than I did last time.

"But I've never lost at junior welterweight and I'm not going to lose on Saturday."

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