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Hi everybody Dave Bontempo for The Boxing Channel in Atlantic City
New Jersey, the anticipation is growing ffor Matthysse and Peterson, which is
tomorrow night a crowd has gathered for the weigh-in which will be momentarily
so lets go up to the podium and see how it plays out for these guys
and stepping onto the scale first with a record of thirty one wins one loss one
draw and sixteen knockouts from Washington, DC d_c_
the IBF junior welterweigh champion of the world Lamont Peterson!
Lamont Peterson weighs-in at 141 pounds,
and now ladies and gentlemen, from Trelew, Argentina, hard hitting record of
thirty three and two thirty one knockouts the interim WBC
superlight welterweigh world champion: Lucas Martin Matthysse!
Lucas Martin MAtthysse weighs in at a one hundred forty pounds even one
hundred forty pounds
There they they are ladies and gentlemen one of boxing's most
anticipated showdowns
Lamont Peterson vs Lucas Martin Matthysse twelve round welterweight
special attraction
well Al Bernstein joins us now, of course he will be calling the fight tomorrow night
and Al, what do you think about uh... of the weight numbers here? yeah you know now
obviously this fight
uh... is an over the weight fight wPeterson came in at one forty-one
and Matthyssse at one forty now the reason there is not a title on the line
is because of some
boxing politics in which the WBC did not want to have an IBF interim title
involved which
uh... was Peterson's title and so they all just agreed to not have any
titles on the line and at the end of the day as is often the case in boxing now
it's the match up that's compelling and so these two fighters agreed that one forty-one
would be the catch weight
Peterson came in at that Matthysse though right on the money at one forty
a true ...junior welterweight
and that's why they have some trouble sometimes in these divisions explaining
everything even as you just did it so well there, imagine if you didn't know you
you know what we need a lawyer where is a lawyer when we need one you know
sub-paragraph three one hundred forty pounds now this is a very exciting
fans fight don't you think, talk about the match up and this is compelling for styles and
for excitement, you know but this is a fight
that nobody HAD to take nobody had to make this fight you know, here is Peterson, who
could go out fight somebody else for his title; Matthysse is in the line to fight Danny Garcia
as a mandatory contender, they decided to fight each other,
they said this is going to be a great fans fight, the winner is rumored to be fighting Danny Garcia
next, there is a strong likelihood but forget about the future this
fight right now is the thing i think it is a terrific style matchup
you know we have the big puncher in Lucas Matthysse, 31 knockouts in 33 wins
and Lamont Peterson,
a true boxer-puncher but the emphasize on the attacker,
specially in recent fights, could Peterson even be a boxer in this fight,
a pure boxer, i don't know, that's why i think it's going be exciting fight
will be interesting to see who is able to maintain a style well with Al Bernstein
in atlantic city this is Dave Bontempo for The Boxing Channel,
don't forget to stay tuned, we've got coverage all weekend
and we'll be with you after the fight is well