(Photo credit: Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions) By Jim Dower: In a surprising outcome, unbeaten #1 WBC Viktor Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) stopped #2 WBC Lucas Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) in the 10th round on Saturday night to capture the vacant WBA light welterweight title on HBO Championship Boxing from the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Postol knocked Matthysse down with a right hand in the 10th. Matthysse then opted not to get back to his feet and he was counted out by referee Jack Reiss. Matthysse was rubbing his left eye while on the canvas. He said that his left eye was injured from the right hand that he was knocked down with.
“I can assure you this is not going to be my last knockout,” Postol said after the fight. “I took a few hard shots. I can take a punch. I was afraid that he was going to take a point away from me, but Freddie told me I could fight on the inside and throw short punches. It would be a pleasure to meet him [Terence Crawford in the ring. I want to prove myself to American boxing fans.”
By Dan Ambrose: #2 WBC 140lb contender Lucas “Machine” Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) may not have the unbeaten record or the highest ranking going into tonight’s clash with #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs), but what he will have is a big advantage in terms of the purse he’ll be getting for their fight on HBO Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. 
(Photo credit: Hogan Photos) By Jim Dower: #2 WBC contender Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) successfully made weight on Friday in coming in at 139.4 pounds for his bout on Saturday night on HBO against #1 WBC unbeaten Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Postol, 31, weighed in at the same weight as Matthysse in coming in at 139.4 pounds as well. 
(Photo credit: Hogan Photos) By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) and his manager Vadim Kornilov see this Saturday’s Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) fight as a ”revenge fight” for the 31-year-old Postol to avenge Ruslan Provodnikov’s loss earlier this year in April to Matthysse. 
By Scott Gilfoid: After all that yakking that Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) has been doing lately about him being the next opponent for Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2, 38 KOs), it’s starting to look like it won’t be him that will be fighting the Filipino fighter in early 2016. 
(Photo Credit: Hogan Photos/Golden Boy Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: After having failed in his previous attempt to capture a world title two years ago in a 12 round decision loss to former WBA/WBC 140lb champion Danny Garcia, #2 WBC Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) will be back in the ring this Saturday night to face unbeaten #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) in a fight for the vacant WBC light welterweight title on HBO from the StubHub Center, in Carson, California. 
By Dan Ambrose: If #2 WBC Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) defeats #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) in an impressive fashion in their fight for the vacant WBA light welterweight title this Saturday night, Matthysse could wind up facing Manny Pacquiao in 2016, according to Matthysse’s promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions. 
(Photo Credit: Golden Boy Promotions) By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is expecting an exciting fight between his fighter #2 WBC Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) and #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) this Saturday night in their fight on HBO Championship Boxing. 
By Dan Ambrose: #2 WBC 140lb contender Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) is hoping he can get a victory over #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) and use the win to get a much bigger fight against either Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao. Matthysse feels that he deserves a big money fight against one of those guys due to all the big fights he’s had I his career. 
By Dan Ambrose: #1 WBC Viktor Postol (27-0, 11 KOs) will be facing #2 WBC Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) in a battle for the vacant WBC light welterweight title this Saturday on October 3rd on HBO from the StubHub Center, in Carson, California.