HBO's plan is for Hatton to fight former two-weight world champion Arturo Gatti next before a superfight with pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather.
Gatti believes that shoppers will stick closely to their budgets this year.
Michael Terrasi and Laura Gatti live in one of the communities near South Beach which was most exposed to the worst of storm Sandy.
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If Manchester's Ricky Hatton cannot land either of the above, WBA titlist Vivian Harris (Guyana) or fringe champion Arturo Gatti (Canada), something is seriously amiss.
"It's the beginning of the holiday season for the retail industry, " says Mike Gatti, executive director of the retail advertising and marketing association at NRF.
"Mentally, I'm not all that well in the head, " said Anthony Gatti, who slept in a tent in front of the ruined home for weeks after the storm.
Separation is the new reality for the Gatti family, a clan of several generations that shared the same three-story home near the ocean on Staten Island until Sandy destroyed it.
"The whole family's separated, " said Marge Gatti, the matriarch.
And he may well move up to light welterweight, a tough division already populated by Britons Ricky Hatton and Junior Witter, as well as by world players Kostya Tszyu, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Miguel Cotto and Arturo Gatti.
Arresting, consistently absorbing stage pictures expertly follow the mournful flow of this slow-moving epic, while a powerhouse cast of singers and the Met Orchestra under the sure direction of Daniele Gatti ensure that the evening has both gravity and momentum.
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