By Steve Kim
Coming off his dominant performance on May 6th, where Lucas Matthysse stopped the usually durable Emmanuel Taylor in five rounds on the Saul Alvarez-Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. pay-per-view undercard at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, it was expected that he would have another fight in the fall.
There was some minor talk of Matthysse possibly coming back on the Canelo-Golovkin card next week, but the hard-hitting Argentine may not return till next year.
"He needed a little more time to get ready," explained Eric Gomez, the president of Golden Boy Promotions, to BoxingScene.com on Wednesday morning. "We had a date for him in October but he said he needed more time to get ready. So we're trying to get him a date in either December, January or February."
The fight with Taylor marked his first fight since October of 2015 where he was stopped by Viktor Postol in the tenth round of their clash for the WBC 140-pound title.
During the fight, he suffered a broken eye socket in the process. The hope is that the 34-year old Matthysse (38-4, 35 KO's) can be more active in 2018 and get a welterweight title shot.
"Definitely, we want to get him back to where he was and he wants to be able to challenge for a world title in the next few fights and that's what we're going to do," Gomez told BoxingScene.com.
Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.
