My hunch is that Ricky Hatton will not want to go out of boxing after Saturday's devastating defeat.
If he had fought to his potential before being knocked out by Pacquiao things might be different. Instead he fought with no acumen whatsoever leaving himself completely open to be hit while the man it seems he really wanted to lay out was hovering over him in the corner at the end of the round.
Although what Floyd Sr was telling him in the corner made sense (if you could understand it), I must say after meeting him a couple of months ago it did strike me that however much knowledge he has, his company must be near impossible to take for a long period of time.
If Hatton is to fight again I feel it must be against a top-level opponent - I don't see a Juan Lazcano fitting the bill on this occasion. Assuming that Oscar De La Hoya does not want to fight again, he has two options - Amir Khan or Junior Witter, provided both win their upcoming world title fights.
With the Hitman's long-term emnity with Witter I don't see him risking ending his career with defeat to the Bradford fighter.
This leaves Khan, someone he gets on with very well, but if he can get past this friendship (and in boxing they tend to do so), he will see that the Bolton fighter perfectly fits the bill.
Firstly, he is not a big hitter and with Hatton's reduced punch resistance this has to be a consideration. And secondly, he is a fighter on the up against whom defeat would not harm Hatton's legacy anymore than Kostya Tszyu's is affected by his loss to the Mancunian.
Against Khan, Hatton can go in and give his all, leaving everything in the ring in the hope of a victory which would be amongst the most memorable of his career.
Of course there is the matter of getting over his disagreements with Frank Warren but I feel the financial rewards on offer will enable them to work together one last time.
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Spencer Fearon is getting a lot of stick for his prediction for this fight and he'll reply in fighting style later this week. As I said to him earlier, I think the biggest lesson to take out of this is to disregard weight as a consideration in such bouts.
If a fighter of the calibre of Manny Pacquiao takes such a fight on, give him the benefit of the doubt that he can compete in this weight class.
Before Pacman's fight against Oscar, I spoke to Cornelius Boza-Edwards in Berlin and he looked at me with mild disdain when I suggested I fancied Pacquiao to win, asking if I had ever been hit by someone that much bigger than me.
I did not pursue the argument (partly incase a demonstration might have been forthcoming!), took the former world champion's advice on board and regrettably did not bet on Pacquiao winning. It taught me a lesson to not be too swayed by those within the game when it comes to judging the outcome of upcoming fights.
The boxing adiom that 'a good big un beats a good little un' may be the sport's most famous, but also least accurate.
If you are punting on boxing, what you should be asking yourself is:
Who is the better fighter? Who is more motivated/in better condition? Who is on the up/on the slide?
There are far more examples of the better fighter coming out on top of these contests from Roy Jones Jr against John Ruiz to Sugar Ray Leonard-Donny Lalonde.
Even Sugar Ray Robinson would have beaten Joey Maxim if the fight was a 12 round contest or he had not suffered heat exhaustion.
A far better adiom would be:
'A great little 'un beats a good big 'un'. Most of the time anyway.