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Mayweather forced a 10th-round stoppage in an eagerly anticipated WBC welterweight fight by flooring Hatton to extend his unbeaten record to 39 fights.

But a defiant Hatton insisted he is not ready to throw in the towel on his career. "Knock me down but I keep coming back," Hatton told Sky Box Office. "Ricky Hatton is not finished."

Hatton could not disguise his bitter disappointment at not being able to deliver a memorable win for his travelling fans.

"My pride is hurt more than the punches hurt," he said. I thought I fought well. I was forcing it but maybe he's very good at making you miss. I thought I was in the fight but he had a good round, he was better inside than I thought and he got me."

On his all-action game-plan the Stockport-born fighter conceded: "What I was doing made sense but I wasn't quite good enough to apply it."

Mayweather paid tribute to Hatton's bravery. "Ricky Hatton is one tough fighter. He is still a champion in my eyes and I'd love to see him fight again," he said.

"Ricky Hatton is probably one of the toughest competitors I've faced. I hit him with some big ones but he kept coming and I can see why they call him the 'Hitman'."

Hatton, stepping up to welterweight for only the second time in his career, admitted that Mayweather was a natural at the weight.

"It sounds daft because he knocked me down but I don't think he is the biggest puncher but he is very accurate," Hatton said. "He is more natural at the weight than me and it showed at times."