Hatton and Warren could be reunited

Ricky Hatton will 'fight on' as a promoter despite ending his relationship with Sky Sports - and could even reunite with "old enemy" Frank Warren.

The pair acrimoniously split in 2005 when Hatton was a world champion and Warren was his manager and have seldom eye-to-eye since.

When Hatton was exposed as a cocaine user and went into rehab in September 2010, Warren called for a ban as both a promoter and fighter.

But both have since broke away from Sky Sports, Warren to start his own television channel in BoxNation while Hatton was dropped last month.

And 'the Hitman' - speaking from a sportsman's dinner at Aston Villa's Holte Suite last Friday night - personally name-checked his old adversary.

Hatton promotes his last show for Sky Sports on June 16 and is free to join forces with any of the station's rivals after that.

He said: "I am positive, to say the least, when you look at the champions and challengers I have got and you look at my rivals, I am at an even keel.

"I am also training fighters as well, I am in the gym every day. The boxing world doesn't stop with Sky Sports, we have got other channels to go at.

"Channel Five have been doing a lot just lately and I have been impressed. Even BoxNation is getting more and more popular now.

"I know Frank Warren is my old enemy but I have never said that I wouldn't work with him.

"ESPN are doing a little bit, ITV could come back again, all sorts of things could happen."

Hatton has also had to deal with a storm in his own camp, as well, relating to the Ryan Rhodes and Sergey Rabchenko bout on his show for June 16.

The 33-year-old is training Rabchenko to go against a fighter he manages in Rhodes, which has drew the ire of Dave Coldwell in the opposite corner.

Hatton admitted to being "hurt" by the criticism of his involvement in the European light middleweight title fight and insists he is doing nothing wrong.

He said: "As a promoter, I will be there for the pair of them, the winner gets a world title and I will rebuild the other fighter's career.

"It's not an ideal situation and it's not one I like – there's been comments about me which I have not been happy about – but Ryan is my pal."