Lucas Matthysse

Lucas Matthysse
Data
Birth Name	Lucas Martin Matthysse
Weight class	Light welterweight
nationality	Argentinian
birthday	September 27, 1982
place of birth	Trelew
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.69 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	45
Victories	39
Knockout victories	36
Defeats	5
draw	0
No value	1

Lucas Martin Matthysse (born September 27, 1982 in Trelew , Chubut ) is an Argentine professional boxer and former interim world champion of the WBC in the light welterweight, as well as former world champion of the WBA in the welterweight.

He is the younger brother of the professional boxer Walter Matthysse .

Amateur career

Matthysse was Argentine champion in 2000 and took part in the 11th World Championships in Belfast in 2001, where he was defeated by József Gerebecz from Hungary in the second preliminary round. In August of the same year he also took part in the 5th Pan American Championships in San Juan , where he achieved the silver medal. He had defeated Eberto Medina from Ecuador and Marcos Costa from Brazil before losing to the Mexican Jorge Padilla in the final. At an international tournament in Cuba in December 2002, he also lost on points against the reigning world champion Diógenes Luna .

In February 2003 he won the qualifying tournament for participation in the 14th Pan-American Games in Santo Domingo in Belém . He beat Luis Ramírez from Mexico 13: 3, Breidis Prescott from Colombia 10: 1 and again Marcos Costa from Brazil 7: 6. At the games themselves, however, he had to admit defeat to Breidis Prescott 13:15.

Professional career

In 2004 he started his professional career and won his first 22 fights early. He was in April 2006 WBO Latin American light welterweight champion. On September 12, 2008, his fight against the Mexican Rogelio Castañeda ended valueless ("No Contest") because Castañeda was injured by an accidental headbutt and could not continue the fight.

After five more wins, including knockout successes against Luis Ernesto José (29-5), Florencio Castellano (16-3) and Vivian Harris (29-3), he received a fight for the North American on November 6, 2010 WBO championship title against Zab Judah , which was also traded as an elimination duel for a future world championship fight. However, Matthysse lost the match after 12 controversial rounds by a tight split decision (split point decision), although he had Judah on the ground in the tenth round.

After a subsequent knockout win against DeMarcus Corley , he was defeated on June 25, 2011 by double world champion Devon Alexander again by a tight split decision. He also had Alexander on the ground in the fourth round. Knockout victories against Sergio Priotti, Ángel Martínez (13-1) and Humberto Soto (58-7) gave him the right to challenge the interim WBC world light welterweight championship against Ajose Olusegun (30-0). Matthysse won the fight in Las Vegas by knockout in the tenth round. On January 26, 2013 he defended the title by knockout in the first round against Mike Dallas junior (19-2), the Latin American champion of the WBO from California.

On May 18, 2013 he defeated the reigning IBF light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson (31-1) by tKo in the third round, but lost on September 14 on points against Danny García (26-0). In April 2014 he defeated John Molina (27-3) by knockout in the eleventh round. In September 2014 he also defeated Roberto Ortíz (31-0) by knockout in the second round.

In April 2015 he won on points against Ruslan Prowodnikow (24-3). In October 2015 he lost to the Ukrainian Viktor Postol (27-0) in the tenth round by knockout . The fight was about the WBC world title. He did not play his next fight until May 2017 and defeated Emmanuel Taylor (20-4) prematurely.

On January 27, 2018, he boxed against Tewa Kiram (38-0) for the WBA welterweight title and won by knockout in the eighth round. He lost the title on July 15, 2018 through TKO in the seventh round to Manny Pacquiao (59-7).

predecessor	Office	successor
Lamont Peterson	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) January 27, 2018 - July 15, 2018	Manny Pacquiao

Web links

• Profile at BoxRec