Danny Garcia Versus Matthysse Strong Showtime Possibility For Mayweather Undercard
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Light middleweights Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr. and Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez will get it on in the title bout main event at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 14, 2013. At $64.95 for the Pay-Per-View video feed, the UAS Showtime Mayweather versus Alvarez televised event will need a solid undercard. What better bout for the preliminary to the main event than Danny Garcia versus Lucas Martin Matthysse for Garcia’s WBA and WBC light welterweight titles. After all, Garcia has just beaten Zab Judah, who has beaten Matthysse. Besides a nice payday, Garcia and Matthysse will be warring to determine who will perhaps get the next shot at Mayweather or Alvarez. Golden Boy Promotions has yet to give the official go ahead for a Garcia versus Matthysse preliminary title bout to the Floyd Mayweather main event. The Saul Alvarez versus Floyd Mayweather promotional events are over. The event now requires a legitimate undercard.
Golden Boy cannot rely on Mayweather versus Alvarez to sell the September card alone as one trick pony. Mayweather versus Alvarez has already broken the live gate ticket sales record. Pay-Per-View is quick another matter indeed. Matthysse got robbed twice against Zab Judah and Devon Alexander. What makes Garcia versus Matthysse interesting is both fighters are top hitters at the top of their game. Garcia, 26-0, 16 knockouts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Matthysse, 34-2, 32 knockouts, Buenos Aires, Argentina, is their combined knockout force. It seems evident in a matchup like this, the crowd will get a pleasing thriller of a bout, and somebody is destined to get knocked out, one way or the other. A decision would favor the hard punching Garcia over hard punching Matthysse.
On the other hand, Matthysse did knock out Mike Dallas Jr. in the first round in Las Vegas at the Hard Rock this past January. Before that, Matthysse stopped 30-0 Nigerian challenger Ajose Olusegun in Las Vegas in the tenth round in September 2012. Besides Argentina and Nevada, Matthyse has fought in California, Texas, Missouri and Mexico without fear. Returning to Las Vegas where he on his last two bouts will not phase him.
Garcia will also not be intimidated by the glitz and glitter of Las Vegas. In Las Vegas he: stopped Jesus Villareal in his second bout in the second round (December 2007); he stopped Charles Wade in his fourth bout in the first round (March 2008); he stopped Guadalupe Diaz in his fifth bout in the first round (April 2008); he stopped Tyrone Wiggins in his seventh bout in the first round (September 2008); he decisioned Adan Hernandez in his ninth bout in six rounds (November 2008); he decisioned Luis Alfredo Lugo in his tenth bout in eight rounds (December 2008); he decisioned Nate Campbell in ten rounds (April 2011); and he stopped Amir Khan in defense of his WBC and WBC Light Welterweight World Championship belts in four rounds (September 2012). In fact, Garcia has an edge a bout with Matthysse if occurs because he has vast experience fighting in the Las Vegas casino atmosphere.
However it would be hard not to be spellbound in the surreal atmosphere a Floyd Mayweather Jr. boxing card creates. Showtime has got the big box office sports draw, and at 36, Floyd cannot afford to wait any longer to fight the younger and stronger Saul Alvarez on the rise. Neither cannot the likes Danny Garcia and Lucas Martin Matthysse of afford to wait much longer for an aging Floyd to give them that magical big payday. Floyd has fought as high as middleweight. Garcia and Matthysse are light welterweights, but who cares? You only live once, and big paydays in boxing in the post Muhammad Ali, Iron Mike Tyson, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard era are hard to come by. The people who make the big money in professional sports are the big winners, not the teams, the win, the loss or the draw. There’s nothing racial, ethnic, nationalistic or local about it though some fans seem to think so.Andy Murray earned U.S. $2,052,143.53 for winning Wimbledon in 2013. How does this compare to the upcoming Showtime card?
The record Pay-Per-View audience was almost 2.5 million for Floyd versus Oscar De La Hoya in 2007. Floyd needs the Alvarez draw and hype to help USA Showtime narrow its subscription gap with HBO, and make back its investment. The Guerrero bout cost seventy dollars for the High Definition telecast, and sixty dollars for the regular telecast, with more buyers going for HD. If the gross from the Pay-Per-View can reach over 100 hundred million dollars, Floyd will clear 50% of the take. His bout with Miguel Cotto netted Floyd $45 million, his biggest payday to date. Undoubtedly Canelo Alvarez will truly want his multimillion dollar piece of Floyd’s cherry pie. Danny Garcia and Lucas Matthysse will not fight on the card for free. Maybe there’s at least a million or two in it for both of them too.
We’ll see.
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