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Yuriorkis Gamboa

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Record 18 (15 ko's) + 0 + 0 = 18
Nick El Ciclon de Guantánamo
Weight division Featherweight (126 lbs)
Positions in ratings 2 - WBC Featherweight (February 2009)
World Title - WBA Featherweight (July 2010)
3 - IBF Featherweight (March 2009)
5 - WBO Super Featherweight (April 2009)
Nationality Cuba   Cuba
Lives & trains Germany   Germany, Hamburg
Born Cuba   Cuba,
Profdebut27 Apr 2007
Birthday23 Dec 1981
Stance Orthodox
Boxrec ID 391770

Scheduled bout

# Date Opponent Record Location
11.09.2010 Mexico Orlando Salido[34-10-2, 22]USA  USA, Las Vegasmore...


Records list

# Date Opponent Record Location Result
727.03.2010 Argentina Jonathan Victor Barros[28-0-1, 16]Germany  Germany, HamburgW UD 12 (12)more...
623.01.2010 Tanzania Rogers Mtagwa[26-13-2, 18]USA  USA, New YorkW TKO 2 (12)more...
510.10.2009 Panama Whyber Garcia[22-6-0, 15]USA  USA, New YorkW TKO 4 (12)more...
417.04.2009 Venezuela Jose Rojas[25-6-1, 17]USA  USA, PrimmW TKO 10 (12)more...
320.02.2009 Colombia Walter Estrada[35-8-0, 24]USA  USA, Fort LauderdaleW KO 1 (10)more...
209.01.2009 USA Roger Gonzalez[27-2-0, 18]USA  USA, PrimmW TKO 10 (12)more...
104.10.2008 USA Marcos Ramirez[25-0-0, 16]USA  USA, TemeculaW KO 2 (10)more...




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Gamboa training in Tampa 11 Aug 2010 13:33

Gamboa training in Tampa

World champion Yurikoris Gamboa, who usually trains in Miami, is off to the Fight Factory in Tampa, Fla. He is preparing to take on champion Orlando Salido of Mexico on Top Rank’s ‘Battle of the Champions’ on September 11 at the Palms Resort Casino, Las Vegas. Gamboa, 18-0, usually trains in Miami. “It’s a big fight and we wanted to get away and do it right,” said chief trainer Tony Gonzalez read more ...
Gamboa defeats Barros 28 Mar 2010 12:47

Gamboa defeats Barros

126lb superstar Yuriorkis “El Ciclon” Gamboa (18-0, 15 KOs) successfully defended his WBA featherweight championship with a twelve round unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Argentinian Jonathan Victor Barros (28-1-1, 16 KOs) on Saturday night at the Sporthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. After two tame opening rounds, Gamboa opened up in round three, but Barros proved to be a tough read more ...
Lopez and Gamboa dominate… 26 Jan 2010 18:33

Lopez and Gamboa dominate…

If Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa established themselves as the top two featherweights in the world with impressive wins Saturday night, there seems to be no rush to definitively answer who is number one. It was the second time in four months that Lopez and Gamboa co-headlined a show from the theatre read more ...
Gamboa annihilates Mtagwa 24 Jan 2010 11:17

Gamboa annihilates Mtagwa

WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa,, (17-0, 15 KOs) destroyed IBF #7/WBO #10 Rogers Mtagwa (26-14-2, 18 KOs) in two rounds. Gamboa simply outclassed Mtagwa, florring him once in the first read more ...
Weights from NYC 23 Jan 2010 03:39

Weights from NYC

Superstar Felix Trinidad poses with WBO World Featherweight Champion Steven Luevano and WBO Jr. World Featherweight Champion Juan Manuel Lopez after both fighters weighed in, Luevano at 126 lbs, Lopez at 125.5 lbs). They meet on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Also WBA Featherweight Champion Yuriorkis Gamboa weighed in at 126 lbs, while chellenger Rogers Mtagwa scaled read more ...
Juanma survives Mtagwa 11 Oct 2009 16:54

Juanma survives Mtagwa

Unbeaten WBO jr featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez (27-0, 24 KOs) overcame the toughest challenge of his career, winning a narrow twelve round unanimous decision over Rogers Mtagwa (26-13-2, 18 KOs) on Saturday night inside the WaMu Theatre at Madison Square Garden, New York City. “Juanma” had all he could handle with the rugged brawler Mtagwa as the bout contained many spectacular exchanges. Lopez was credited with a knockdown in round five but every round was a war read more ...
Yuriorkis Gamboa Eyes Chris John, Juanma, Marquez 4 Oct 2009 23:47

Yuriorkis Gamboa Eyes Chris John, Juanma, Marquez

TODD duBOEF (President, Top Rank): I think when everybody saw Gamboa the first time, the first time you saw him on television you saw how exciting he was. He has very much a Trinidad-esque charisma. And Solis is in a division searching for “Mr. Heavyweight.” I think that Solis, with his amateur credentials, was something that being in a partnership with Ahmet Öhner and Arena Box-Promotion, his organization read more ...
Juanma, Gamboa Eye Their Mega-Fight in 2010 30 Aug 2009 23:42

Juanma, Gamboa Eye Their Mega-Fight in 2010

If everything goes well on October 10 at the Theatre in Madison Square Garden, WBO super bantamweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez and WBA "regular" featherweight champ Yuriorkis Gamboa will meet in 2010. The compete in co-feature bouts on the October 10 card to hype their collision next year read more ...
Gamboa’s gold medal! 20 Jun 2009 20:03

Gamboa’s gold medal!

Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum said today he will contact the Olympic Committee and ask to get a new gold medal for Yuriorkis Gamboa. “That’s my goal, to get a gold medal for him,” Arum said. Gamboa won an Olympic gold medal in 2004 in Athens, Greece, at 112 pounds while fighting for the Cuban national team. He later sold the medal for $1,500 to pay for daughter Brenda’s first birthday party. Gamboa, 27, now lives read more ...
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