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After Pacquiao loss, ex-WBA champ Matthysse calls time on career

Challenging Filipino great Manny Pacquiao (right) proved a step too far for Argentine Lucas Matthysse © AFP / Mohd RASFAN

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Aug 3 – Just two weeks after a punishing knockout loss to Filipino great Manny Pacquiao, Argentine former WBA welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse announced his retirement on Thursday.

“Today I decided to hang up the gloves, another stage in my life is beginning,” said the 35-year-old Matthysse, who ends his 43-fight career with a record of 38 wins, 36 inside the distance, for just five defeats and one no contest.

Matthysse’s last fight was a seventh round stoppage loss to Pacquiao in Kuala Lumpur, in which the previously explosive Argentine looked past his best.

“Pacquiao is a great boxer, I lost to a legend,” he said.

“I’m proud to have stayed at the top for 10 years fighting the best in the world.”

He won the WBA welterweight title in January with an eighth round knockout of Thailand’s Tewa Kiram.

He previously held the interim WBC super-lightweight title but was narrowly beaten by American Danny Garcia in Las Vegas in 2013 when challenging for the full strap.

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