Better Late Than Never? Gamboa-Lopez, Khan-Brook, Mayweather-Pacquiao II

11/02/2018 James Slater

Recycling is all the rage these days, but should great fighters and the fights they had or should have had get the recycle treatment? Next … continue

At Age 36, Yuriorkis Gamboa Still Believes …He Can Beat Lomachenko

09/26/201809/25/2018 James Slater

Is former “sure thing for greatness” Yuriorkis Gamboa still relevant here in 2018? Don’t tell the Cuban who defected all those years ago that he … continue

Yuriorkis Gamboa, Juanma Lopez To Co-Headline in Miami In November

09/23/201809/21/2018 James Slater

Though neither former champion appears to have too much left, former lower-weight stars Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez continue to fight. Gamboa, 28-2(17) and … continue

Yuriorkis Gamboa keeps his career alive – just; Gamboa awarded controversial decision win over Jason Sosa

11/26/2017 James Slater

Going into last night’s super-featherweight fight with Jason Sosa, one-time potential superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa was under no illusions: it was a fight he had to win or his career was over. Well, the former WBA and IBF featherweight champion got the win, but it was mighty close. And controversial.

Gamboa faced a determined former WBA super-featherweight champion in Jason Sosa and after ten rounds the New York crowd firmly felt the younger man’s hand should have been raised. Instead, 35 year old Gamboa (the Cuban will turn 36 next month) was awarded a ten-round majority verdict after an exciting, drama-filled bout.

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Results: Barrera stops Valera; Gamboa – Sosa

11/26/201711/26/2017 Main Events

Sullivan Barrera (21-1, 14 KOs) of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Felix Valera (162, 13 KOs) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic scored knockdowns in the first round.

In the second round, Valera began to taunt Sullivan with his antics but Barrera countered with hard shots that put a quick end to the showboating. However, Barrera suffered a cut over his left eye that started to swell in the second round. Shortly after the bell rang to start the third round, Valera hit Barrera with a low blow that cost him a point on the judges’ scorecards.

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Results: Kovalev destroys Shabranskyy; Barrera & Gamboa win

11/26/201711/25/2017 Jeff Sorby

Former IBF/WBA/WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (31-2-1, 27 KOs) overpowered Vyacheslav Shabranskyy (19-2, 16 KOs) in obliterating him in 2 short rounds to win the vacant WBO light heavyweight title on Saturday night in their fight on HBO World Championship Boxing at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Yuriorkis Gamboa keeps career alive with majority decision win over Alexis Reyes

08/14/201708/13/2017 James Slater

Last night in Cancun, Mexico, 35 year old Yuriorkis Gamboa kept his career alive with a win – but only just. The once seemingly untouchable Cuban scraped through with a ten round MD over Mexico’s Alexis Reyes, prevailing by scores of 95-94 twice in the 135 pound bout, the third judge seeing things all square at 94-94.

Gamboa is now 27-2(17), 22 year old Reyes, who has never been stopped, is now 15-3-1(7).

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Gamboa Makes a Quiet Comeback on August 12th

08/07/201708/06/2017 Liam Lawer

Former WBA and IBF featherweight world champion, Yuriorkis Gamboa, sneaks back into the boxing landscape on August 12th, when he takes on 15(7)-2(0)-1 Alexis Reyes, in the Oasis Arena, Cancun, Mexico. Far removed from his exalted position as one of the most highly regarded fighters in the game, the 35 year old Cuban is attempting to reignite his claim for a title shot against the rugged Mexican. His hopes were earlier extinguished by an upset defeat to the highly experienced and unjustly unheralded Robinson Castellanos, who stopped Gamboa in May of this year.

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Yuriorkis Gamboa, Juan Manuel Lopez: Coulda woulda shoulda

05/18/2017 James Slater

Both electrifying fighters in their prime, Cuba’s Yuriorkis Gamboa and Puerto Rico’s Juan Manuel Lopez seemed to have superstar status ahead of them. Both men managed to win a world championship – in fact both fighters won a couple of belts each – but overall the lofty heights that were expected were never reached.

Today, with both fighters trying to fight on whilst being way past their best (Gamboa recently suffering a shock stoppage defeat at the hands of Robinson Castellanos, “Juanma” having suffered a number of especially gruesome KO defeats) there is a big sense of ‘what if?’

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Results: Robinson Castellanos stops Yuriorkis Gamboa

05/07/201705/06/2017 Golden Boy Promotions

Continuing to honor its pledge to make competitive fights, Golden Boy Boxing on ESPN delivered two significant upsets in the main and co-main events on Cinco De Mayo, with lightweight Robinson “Robin Hood” Castellanos (22-11, 14 KOs) taking out Yuriorkis “El Ciclon de Guantánamo” Gamboa (26-2, 17 KOs) in the main event and Jesus Rojas (25-1-2, 18 KOs) claiming the WBA-NABA featherweight title from Abraham “El Chamaco” Lopez (22-1-1, 15 KOs) in the co-main.

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