Former junior welterweight top contender Lucas Matthysse plans on returning to the ring on the Canelo Alvarez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. undercard. It will be the Argentine's first fight since a crushing knockout loss to Viktor Postol in October of 2015. Right now, the plan is to kick off a campaign at welterweight with a bout against the solid, but utterly unspectacular Pablo … [Read more...]
Historical Fight Night: Ray Mancini vs. Arturo Gatti
by Fox Doucette Sometimes we like to put on technical matchups between highly skilled fighters to determine the greatest boxers of all time here at the Historical Fight Night Arena. Other times, we create savage entertainment for the baser elements of boxing society in which guys are put in there and told to punch each other until one of them simply cannot stand up anymore, … [Read more...]
Golden Boy’s Big Book of Fail; Magno’s Monday Rant
It's hardly Golden Boy Promotions' fault that Lucas Matthysse took a full ten-count on his knee last Saturday night against Viktor Postol at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Nor is it their fault that Matthysse had to take a difficult styles match-up in Postol in order to compete for the vacant WBC belt. But the whole sad sack affair, right down to Matthysse's … [Read more...]
Provodnikov, Matthysse And What’s Right With Boxing: The Sunday Brunch
Hola amigos y familia, welcome to a nationally charged edition of both Argentina's and Russia's number one, semi-satirical source for Hawaiian skin on skin street justice, The Sunday Brunch - We are the boxing column equivalent of Neil Degrasse Tyson's many different astronomy neckties. This week we're diving face first into the lacerated and mutilated eye of Ruslan … [Read more...]
Matthysse Outboxes, Outlasts Provodnikov
Turning Stone Resort & Casino, Verona, New York-- In what was being billed as an instant Fight of the Year candidate, Lucas Matthysse (37-3, 34 KOs) beat Ruslan Provodnikov (24-4, 17 KOs) via majority decision by scores of 115-113, 115-113, and 114-114. The end result may not have been a true Fight of the Year, but Provodnikov-Matthysse produced plenty of fireworks and … [Read more...]