Two Golden Boy Promotions contenders, junior welterweight Lucas Matthysse and middleweight Tureano Johnson, are on the mend and aiming for ring returns in 2017.Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs), of Argentina, one of boxings fiercest punchers, has not fought since suffering a damaged eye and broken orbital bone in a 10th-round knockout loss to Viktor Postol in a fight for a vacant junior welterweight world title in October 2015.Golden Boy Promotions president Eric Gomez told ESPN that Matthysse, 34, who considered retirement after the injury, would likely return to the ring in March or April.Hes started training again, Gomez said. Hes been very, very careful with things because of the injury. He wants to make sure he is 100 percent, and when Matthysse trains he is always nonstop. He always likes to stay active but he just needs to take it slowly. So he is getting back into it but hasnt started to spar yet.What (Argentine co-promoter) Mario Arano is telling me is that come March, Lucas will be ready to fight, so were going to go ahead and start working on that for him. But when he comes back, Matthysse wants to come back at welterweight. He wants to fight at 147 pounds, so he is moving up (from 140 pounds).Johnson (19-1, 13 KOs), of the Bahamas, has not boxed since October 2015, when he easily outpointed Eamonn OKane in a world title elimination fight on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin-David Lemieux middleweight unification bout. The victory against OKane made Johnson a mandatory challenger for Golovkin, who knocked out Lemieux.Johnson, 31,?was the likely candidate to face GGG last April 23 but had to pass on the fight because he injured his right rotator cuff during the fight with OKane. Johnson, who has won five fights in a row since a 10th-round knockout loss to former world title challenger Curtis Stevens in 2014, eventually had surgery to repair the injury and has been out since.Gomez said that Johnson should be ready to fight in January.Hes been rehabbing the shoulder and he has started training lightly, and he feels good, Gomez said. Hes able to use his arm. I dont think hes sparred yet, but hes been hitting the heavy bag and feeling good. Were looking for a January or February comeback for him.Well get him a tuneup fight to knock off the rust and then well look for that mandatory fight. Hes still in position. So well get him a comeback fight and after that, depending on how he looks and feels, well look to evaluate his performance and see if hes ready to take on that mandatory position for GGG.Cheap Hockey Jerseys China . R.J. 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Plouffe batted .254 with 14 home runs and 52 RBIs in 477 at-bats last season, his second as a regular in the lineup.The NFL will investigate whether Oakland Raiders linebacker Aldon Smith has violated the protocols required of a suspended player seeking reinstatement to the league following a violation of its substance abuse policy, a league source told ESPNs Ed Werder.The league will conduct the investigation following the circulation of an online video that shows an unidentified man and woman talking about a hand-rolled cigarette.The video is archived in a Periscope account that Smith has used on multiple occasions over the past two months.Neither Smith nor the woman appear in the video, titled Fire up session, although Smith appears in several other videos under the Periscope account ravenga.At one point in the video, the woman tells the man that he shouldnt even be posting that and that he is hella stupid as the man holds the lit cigarette.The video cuts off immediately after the man says: They dont know its me. Its not like I put Aldon Smith.In a tweet posted Monday afternoon, Smith seemed to imply that it isnt him in the video.Smith currently is serving a yearlong suspension that was handed down in November when he violated the NFLs substance abuse policy. He will be eligible to apply for reinstatement in September, 660 days before the one-year anniversary of the suspension.ddddddddddddAccording to the substance abuse policy, any player seeking reinstatement from Smiths level of suspension must demonstrate to the league that he has abstained from any substances of abuse during the period of his ban.Smiths application for reinstatement also must include any information regarding his involvement with any substances of abuse-related incidents.The No. 7 pick of the 2011 draft by the San Francisco 49ers, Smith spent time in rehab in 2013 and served a nine-game suspension in 2014. He was cut by the Niners during training camp last summer after his fifth arrest since coming into the league.In September, Smith pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor counts of hit-and-run, drunken driving and vandalism, charges that stemmed from the alleged Aug. 6 incident.After signing with the Raiders, Smith finished last season with 3.5 sacks in nine games, including seven starts. He re-signed with Oakland this past April, reportedly agreeing to a two-year deal.Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '