By Allan Fox: WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) is gunning for WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) for his next fight, and he’s hoping that his promoter Richard Schaefer for Golden Boy Promotions can make that fight happen.
Schaefer feels confident he put the fight together. Matthysse isn’t all that impressed with Garcia’s speed and defensive skills, as he sees him as a slow fighter that’s easy to hit.
Matthysse said this about Garcia at the post-fight press conference last night following his 3rd round TKO win over Danny Garcia: “I hope the fight [with Danny Garcia] happens, but he’s a slow fighter. He’s slow and wide open. I know I’ll win that fight as well.”
If Matthysse can land the kinds of shots that he landed on Peterson last night then it’s going to be awfully tough for Garcia to stay in there long without getting knocked out.
Garcia’s last opponent Zab Judah did a good job of neutralizing Garcia’s left hook last month in their fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Judah still lose the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision, but he made it close in the last part of the fight and was able to stun Garcia at one point. Without his left hook, Garcia looked like a very average fighter.
I wouldn’t say that Garcia is a slow fighter. He’s got decent speed, but he lacks the big power that Matthysse had and he’s pretty easy to hit as Matthysse says. Garcia doesn’t have the kind of power that would worry Matthysse, and that means that he would have to be able to take Matthysse’s big shots for 12 rounds.
Can Garcia do that? I have my doubts. Matthysse seems to have gotten a lot stronger than he was back when he suffered losses to Judah and Devon Alexander, and I think he’s at the peak of his career right now. Garcia would be facing him at the wrong time and I think it would go badly for him.
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