By Jay Vandendorp: WBC interim super lightweight interim champion Lucas Matthysse (33-2-1,31KOs) talked to the Argentine Press about his oncoming bout against IBF champion Lamont Peterson (31-1-1,16Kos) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 18th, which will be televised by Showtime.
The Argentine knockout artist has been in camp for the last two months in his adopted city of Junin. Looking fit and ready for Lamont Peterson he gave an interview to an Argentine sports channel, he touched on several subjects including, Zab Judah, Devon Alexander, Sergio Martinez and Marcos Maidana.
Matthysse said to Mark Aimar C.M.B “We’ve been in camp for two months, working real hard, the fight with Peterson is almost here, it’s gonna be a real hard fight but I feel confident that I”ll win. I’ve been sparring with a bunch of guys that showed up here to help me and I feel super strong”.
“They brought me videos of Lamont’s last three fights and I watched three rounds just to see a little but I’m not interested, I just train and train hard and that’s my style. I give all I got in the morning workout and again in the afternoon and then the sparring sessions are brutal here. I don’t believe in studying your opponent’s style and over analyzing what he does or what he doesn’t do, sometimes you know him so well that you end up all confused. To me what matters is my training, you can ask my team. I’m always well trained for every fight, in the ring there’s gonna be Peterson and me, no tactics.”
“The last Sergio Martinez fight was an amazing show, it was truly incredible and it helped the boxing sport in Argentina. Now, the fight was hard, Murray was big and tough and it was obvious that they studied Sergio, they knew what they were doing but Murray didn’t do enough to be the champ. The score cards were close but Sergio won and that was good for us, for Argentina, for our pride. The show was inspiring to all the young boxers watching, who wouldn’t love to be in that ring?”
“After the Zab Judah fight, I was very depressed, I wanted to give up boxing, that was my first defeat, I know I won that fight and the people that know about boxing knew it too but it’s part of boxing. On another level, Zab is a great fighter and fighting him was a great experience that taught me a lot, it improved me a lot. It was a loss but it changed my personality in the ring. It helped me win the next fights, even though, I lost to Alexander.”
“With Alexander it was even worse ‘cause I climbed the ring with a different mentality, I started throwing from round one and I knocked him down in the fourth. To me I won the fight more clearly than against Judah but again I lost; I got depressed again but I never really stopped training and overall those two losses were good for me because they made me see what you need to do when you fight on the road. I got tons of experience.”
“I heard Maidana say that there are lots of fighters out there to fight and that we should each follow our own path, I agree with that, why fight between us when he and me can make our own history and our own money?. If they make the fight, of course we’ll fight because we’re professionals, and I know that after the fight, I will hug him because he’s my friend, but for now he’s making his history and I’m making mine.”
The winner of Peterson-Matthysse is supposed to face Danny Garcia in September.
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