Ricky Hatton's return from retirement: Will it be more Michael Jordan or Michael Schumacher? Let's conveniently forget his second return from retirement with the permanently terrible Washington Wizards and move on to another hugely successful retirement returner, Steve Redgrave. Moments after winning his Olympic gold medal in Atlanta in 1996 Redgrave said "Anybody who sees me in a boat [again] has my permission to shoot me." Fortunately security at the Sydney games of 2000 was excellent: Things also didn't work out badly for Kim Clijsters, who returned from a 2007 retirement to add two more grand slams to her list of honours, Niki Lauda who quit F1 in 1979 citing a lack of interest in "driving round in circles," only to return to win the 1984 driver's championship, and Paul Scholes. For the opening five years of the 2000s Formula One was tiresome. Michael Schumacher was undeniably one of its greatest ever practitioners, but such was his impeccable dominance the sport suffered. This was a typical scene of the time: Since retiring in 2006 and returning in 2009 to race for Mercedes it's been all 12th-placed finishes and retirements. Boring, then. In a new and innovative way Bjorn Borg's return to tennis after a shocking retirement at 26 in 1983 was eagerly awaited but one of the most disastrous on record. In his first nine matches in 1991 and 1992 Borg failed to win a single set. The sight of a former champion so patently off the pace was made no less tragic by Borg using an old-fashioned wooden racket in an era of graphite. No-one should ever be allowed to mention Muhammad Ali's 1980 comeback from retirement the previous year. Ali's legacy was assured but his career had already dragged on longer than strictly necessary. His final fight, a doomed attempt to win a fourth heavyweight title from Larry Holmes was painful to watch: Linford Christie had retired from representative international competition in 1997, but did appear occasionally at invitation meetings. It was at one of these in Germany in 1999 when Christie tested positive for Nandrolone. He was banned for two years from athletics, but Christie has continued to deny any wrongdoing. Yes, Socrates, we're looking at you. That was all remember the name of Garforth Town suggests a job well done: Mark Spitz also re-plunged himself into the pool in 1992 after being offered $1m by a film director to attempt to qualify for the 1992 Olympics. He failed to do so, being around two seconds too off the pace. How will Ricky Hatton's return to the ring pan out