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Lucas Matthysse and Golden Boy are finally seeing eye to eye on a possible return for the Argentinean slugger.

Matthysse, who has been sidelined with an eye injury, has informed Golden Boy he plans to fight again despite rumors he might retire, Golden Boy VP Eric Gomez told RingTV.com in a recent phone interview. Matthysse met with representatives of Golden Boy during Canelo Alvarez’s sixth-round knockout of Amir Khan on May 7 in Las Vegas and expressed his desire to resume his career. Gomez said he expects the popular Matthysse to return in the fall when he is fully healthy at welterweight.

“He came out for the fight and we spoke to him and we had a great meeting, and he’s enthusiastic, and he wants to come back,” Gomez said. “He basically said, ‘Look, I want to be 100%. I don’t want to go in at 80% or 85%.'”

Matthysse (37-4, 34 knockouts) sustained a left-eye injury in his last fight against Viktor Postol in October when he was stopped in the tenth round. Golden Boy tried to make a fight between Matthysse and Mauricio Herrera for May 7 in Las Vegas but Matthysse, who suffered a fractured orbital bone, withdrew because his eye wasn’t totally healthy.

“This eye injury is scary,” Gomez said. “The prospect of going blind is scary, so we understand that and he made it very clear, ‘I will come back. I want to fight again. And I’ll let you guys know when I’m 100%.’ We’re going to give him time to train and work out and once he feels 100% we’ll bring him back.”

Golden Boy plans to monitor his recovery closely. Though Matthysse has never won a world title in two attempts, his aggressive style and affinity for knockouts should allow him to get a meaningful fight at welterweight. “We’re going to be in touch with him every week, every other week to get progress reports,” Gomez said. Gomez expects Matthysse to return “sometime in the fall” and to move up in weight.

“He had been at junior welterweight since the amateurs, so he really wanted to go up and it’s one of those things that his trainers noticed that when he gets down around 145, 146 is when he’s at this best,” Gomez said. “Then he would starve himself to get down to 140 but when he was at his best in camp is when he got down to 144, 45, 46, so they felt it’s probably time to move up.”