Matias split his next two bouts of 2020, being floored in the seventh of a 10-round unanimous decision loss to Petros Ananyan in February before dominating October’s sixth-round stoppage of previously unbeaten 6-foot Malik Hawkins, who entered at 18-0 (11 KOs). 'No one is prepared to die while looking for dreams and goals,” said Matias in a statement. In 2019, Matias scored a sixth-round knockout of Wilberth Lopez in March, an 11th-round TKO over Maxim Dadashev in July and a fifth round stoppage of Jonathan Jose Eniz in November.ĭadashev was 13-0 (11 KOs) entering their 140-pound title elimination bout, after which the Russian boxer suffered a severe brain injury and died a few days later.

Matias: Octo(SHOWTIME Sports) On The Come Up Saucedo was floored twice during his first-round stoppage loss, and Estrella, a future title challenger who entered at 28-1 (24 KOs), in the fourth. Matias halted Daulis and Breidis Prescott, former contenders, in the third- and fourth-rounds. There were four more stoppage victories in three or less rounds in 2017, ending with November’s one-knockdown second-round TKO of southpaw Patrick Lopez, a former Olympian who entered at 25-9 with 16 knockouts.Ī sensational 2018 featured four more stoppages, in succession, over Columbia’s Daulis Prescott (February), Mexico’s Adrian Estrella (May), Daulis’ brother, Breidis (August), and former title challenger Fernando David Saucedo (October). Matias stopped all three opponents in 2016 in four rounds or fewer, capped by a second-round TKO of Jeffrey Fontanez, who entered their December bout at 16-2 with 12 knockouts. “You are talking to a dead man who God has brought back to life.” I was studying and working,” Matias, a former massage therapist, once told reporters in Las Vegas.

Matias survived shootings in 2012 and again in 2013 which have left scars on his butt, on the inside of his right thigh and another on the inside of his left thigh.Īll of this before December 2015, when a 24-year-old, 145-pound Matias debuted professionally with a 61-second stoppage of Juan Rojas Rodriguez.

Matías won 80 of 100 amateur bouts with 22 knockouts, stopping every opponent to win the Isaac Barrientos tournament and earning a silver in another called the Cheo Aponte tournament. I can say that boxing changed my life completely.”

“Boxing changed my way of thinking and behaving. “I was always fighting in school until I started in boxing,” said Matias, who idolized Hall of Fame Puerto Rican former champion Felix Trinidad and first entered the ring as a 12-year-old. Subriel Matias grew up in the small city of Fajardo, in the east of Puerto Rico, whose most famous boxer was former world champion John John Molina.

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