By Michael Amakor | January 27, 2013
LUCAS MATTHYSSE (32-2,30kos) defended his WBC Interim light welterweight title by stopping WBO Latino light welterweight champion MIKE DALLAS JR (19-3-1, 8kos) at the 2:26 mark of the very first round at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas.
There was some controversy before the fight when Mike Dallas’s trainer raised an alarm claiming he had seen someone from Matthyssee’s camp give him some substance speculated to have been amino acids. The commission allowed the fight to continue, but Lucas was scheduled to be tested immediately after the fight to determine if he had taken any illegal substances.
Unlike in the case were the discovery of some illegal hand wraps had dampened the enthusiam of Anthonio Margarito during his fight with Shane Mosley, Matthysee did not allow the drama or mind games from this pre-fight episode to stop him from scorching Dallas with a counter straight right that landed flush, concussively knocking Mike Dallas out cold for the count and for the paramedics and confirming suspicions that he is a brutal heavy handed slugger ready to clear the deck against Danny Garcia for the regular title in a fight that could be made, if ONLY he can only get past his post fight blood test.
Stay Tuned.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
