Garcia-Matthysse

By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) and WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) both weighed in for their mandatory 30-day weigh-in for their fight next month on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Matthysse weighed in at 146.6 lbs., according to Fightnews.com.

That puts Matthysse only 6.6 lbs. away from the 140 lb. light welterweight limit for the fight. Garcia came in at 151 lbs., and just missed the max weight allowed of 154 lbs. for the weigh-in.

Garcia has reputation for ballooning up after he rehydrates, so it’s possible he could be the heavier guy when the two fighters step foot in the ring on September 14th. However, Garcia will have to outweigh Matthysse by a dramatic amount of weight for it to help him in this fight, because Matthysse is the bigger puncher.

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By Ken Woods:  The fight between Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse is one of the most anticipated of the year. This bout will show which fighter is truly elite in the junior welterweight division on September 14.

After Matthysse’s destruction of Lamont Peterson, many in the boxing world began to believe the hype that he was just going to beat all of his future foes up in a similar fashion. His hype train will come to a screeching halt when he steps in the ring with Garcia. That’s right, I said it.

Matthysse is a great power puncher with power in both hands; however, that is the extent of his prowess in the ring. He is one dimensional with limited footwork and defense. He is not technically sound, doesn’t have good head movement, and often throws wide looping punches. In his last fight, he literally fell to the ground trying to swing at his opponent. He has been successful to this point with opponents that have little boxing ability.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) says he’ll take advantage of Lucas Matthysse’s aggressiveness by immediately putting him down on the canvas if he comes out fast looking to score a quick KO in their fight on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Garcia thinks Matthysse has a padded record of knockouts, and he thinks he’s lost against the two best he’s faced during his career in Devon Alexander and Zab Judah. Garcia doesn’t see those losses as controversial like most boxing fans. He thinks Matthysse deserved to lose to Judah and Alexander in their own hometowns.

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(Photo Credit: Hoganphotos/GBP) By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) still isn’t willing to give his September 14th opponent WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) much credit for being an excellent fighter with recent wins over Lamont Peterson, Mike Dallas Jr. and Ajose Olusegun.

Garcia doesn’t see anything special in Matthysse, and he feels he’s going to be able to out-box him without any problems at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Garcia-Matthysse will be the co-feature bout on the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez pay per view card on Showtime.

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(Photo Credit: Hoganphotos/GBP) By Dan Ambrose: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) has given a pretty big hint in how he plans on fighting WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) next month on September 14th in their fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Garcia plans on fighting Matthysse defensively just as Zab Judah and Devon Alexander did in beating him. Whether that’ll work at this stage of Matthysse’s career is unclear because he’s a much different fighter now compared to what he was when he fought those two. It’s like night and day.

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I am a fan of both WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) and Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) but this is about one thing who will walk away with the WBA & WBC belts in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 14th? In Danny Garcia’s last fight we saw him struggle against, lets face it, a past it Zab Judah. We saw Danny get exposed by the veteran Zab.

Danny is flat footed and he has little boxing ability. When he gets in trouble, he panics and just throws big left and right hooks, and he runs out of ideas. He does not have the boxing ability or brain to box on the back foot or work his opponent out and adapt to the fight, but he does have one punch knockout power in both hands as he has demonstrated throughout his career. That’s enough to win any fight. Now on to Lucas.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBC interim light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) has reportedly cancelled his three-city press tour with WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) to publicize their September 14th pay per view fight on HBO at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, According to Badlefthook.

Matthysse canceled the press tour, and Garcia is not pleased in the least. There’s no word about why the press tour was canceled by Matthysse, but it’s likely that it would have been a hardship for him, as he’s from Argentina.

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By Allan Fox: Trainer Angel Garcia, believes that his son WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s), is going to be too much for Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) on September 14th and he doesn’t see the fight as a competitive one when they meet in their pay per view bout on Showtime at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Angel has been his son’s #1 verbal supporter in fights against Amir Khan, Zab Judah and Erik Morales, and he promised all those fights would be mismatches for Danny. Angel was right about the Khan and Morales, at least the second Morales fight, but it’s going to be difficult to buy what Angel is selling for the Matthysse fight, because Garcia finally appears to have met his match in this fight.

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By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is enjoying the fact that he was able to finally complete the deal for his two Golden Boy fighters WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16 KO’s) to face interim WBC light welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) on the Mayweather-Canelo fight card on September 14th.

Schaefer feels that by Garcia signing to fight Matthysse, it shows that Garcia was never afraid to take the fight with Matthysse from get go. He sure looked afraid after watching Matthysse destroy Lamont Peterson last May.

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By Dan Ambrose: To show how important the Danny Garcia (26-0, 14 KO’s) vs. Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32 KO’s) is for the September 14th Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez card, Matthysse and Garcia will have their own 3-city press tour visiting Los Angeles, Puerto Rico and New York.

Question: When was the last time you saw a co-feature bout have its own 3-city press tour? I’ve never seen it happen before, and that tells you how important this fight.

This fight in some ways is a better fight than the Mayweather-Canelo fight, because both guys are pretty evenly matched and weigh almost the same after they rehydrate. This isn’t a situation where one guy is fighting at a higher weight class and is going to rehydrate up 20 pounds after he barely makes the catch-weight.

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