Former WBO Junior Welterweight champion DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley will continue his world travels into the new year. The next stop for Corley: Mendoza, Argentina where he will take on Argentinian Lucas Matthysee on January 21.
Corley (37-15-1, 22 KO's) is coming off a 12-round unanimous decision loss to Serhiy Fedchenko on November 13 in the Ukraine for the WBO European Junior Welterweight title. The Matthysee bout marks a return to Argentina where Corley had one of his better performances in a unanimous decision loss to Marcos Maidana on August 28.
Matthysee (27-1, 25 KO's) is coming off a close 12-round split decision loss to Zab Judah for the vacant WBO Junior Welterweight title on November 6 in Newark, NJ.
Apparently, this is a bout that Matthysee's promoter -- Oscar De La Hoya -- wanted from the start after Matthysee's loss to Judah. "I would like to see him back in the ring in the not to distant future against a solid test like former world champion DeMarcus “Chop Chop” Corley,” De La Hoya said in a transcript of a phone conversation that appeared on Fightnews.com. The bout will be shown on Telefutura in the United States and HBO Plus in Latin America.
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