By Elisinio Castillo

Former WBC interim-junior welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse (37-4, 34KOs) confirmed the rumors that were swirling in Argentina, that he's not very motivated to fight again.

Matthysse has not fought since last October's knockout loss to Viktor Postol. He suffered an eye injury when Postol hit him with a good punch. He went down for the full count of ten.

He was offered a very high position to the May 7th HBO Pay-Per-View undercard to the middleweight showdown between Saul 'Canelo Alavrez and Amir Khan, which takes place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Matthysse was going to face Mauricio Herrera in a welterweight fight.

The negotiations were coming along and a deal seemed to be on the verge of happening, but then it was announced that Matthysse's eye injury was still lingering and he was medically unable to compete on the show. He was later replaced by Frankie Gomez.

"I have no desire. The doctor told me I have an injury to the eye, but it is not serious and I was told that I should rest for a little but, but I do not feel well," Matthysse told Carlos Irusta on Ring Side Radio in Argentina

"I am not [training]. Every morning take my daughter (Priscilla) to school, then I come home, [and later have] lunch with my daughter ... But I do not train. Right now I do not feel like [fighting]. Losing is hard, of course, no one likes it and it hurts a lot. That was a bad night because things did not work out for me."

"At the moment I'm not thinking about anything. I'm already 33 years old, I have long been in boxing since I was a boy, and right now I just want to rest."

Matthysse says that if he decides to return again to the sport, he will be a welterweight.

"If I fight again it will be at welterweight. [If I do not return] my idea is to create a boxing gym for kids, say six to eleven, not competitive boxing. I'm not a millionaire, but I have enough for me and my daughter to live. And I would like to create that gym, hopefully in the future."