Lucas Matthysse is Eager To Get His Hands on Manny Pacquiao
By Miguel Rivera
This coming Saturday night, Argentinean Lucas "The Machine" Matthysse will make his debut within the welterweight division and if he succeeds, he hopes to get a crack at WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao.
On May 6th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Matthysse, who left behind the junior welterweight division and the problems it gave him, will face American Emmanuel "Tranzformer" Taylor as part of the HBO Pay-Per-View undercard to the all-Mexican showdown between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Julio César Chávez Jr.
"In my last four fights, I had a hard time getting down to super lightweight," Matthysse told ESPN Deportes.
Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) will be stepping in the ring for the first time in just under two years. The fight with Taylor, a native of Maryland, will be scheduled 12-round with the World Boxing Organization international title at stake, and the Intercontinental title recognized by the World Boxing Association.
"It's a good opportunity to show myself in a position that will have a very large audience, because the headliners are two good Mexican boxers," said Matthysse said.
"In this welterweight division there are a lot more interesting opponents, including Manny Pacquiao, who at some point... if he can't find any opponents - I just want to say that all they have to do is just call me and I'm ready to face him. I've made a good camp in Indio, California, with Joel Diaz."
The last time Matthysse saw action was in October of 2015, when he was shockingly stopped by Viktor Postol in a battle for the vacant WBC 140-pound title. Matthysse suffered a bad eye injury in that contest and needed several months of time to recover.
At that time of that loss, Matthysse was being seriously scouted as a possible opponent for Pacquiao, who defends the WBO welterweight title on July 1 against Jeff Horn in Australia.
He changed his team around and hired experienced trainer Joel Diaz to head his corner, and the boxer moved his training camp from Argentina to Indio, California.
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