Yuriorkis Gamboa

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the Arena Roberto Duran in Panama City, Panama, WBO/WBA super bantamweight champion Celestino Caballero (32-2, 22KOs) won a hard-fought split decision over Jeffrey Mathebula (22-2-2, 12KOs) of South Africa. The scores were 116-112, 116-112 for Caballero and 116-112 for Mathebula. Maybe Caballero overlooked Mathebula or maybe Mathebula was tougher than many expected read more ...

The 2004 Olympic Games gold medalist and WBA #3-ranked contender Yuriorkis Gamboa (15-0, 13 KOs) scored a tenth round TKO over second-ranked Jose “Cheo’’ Rojas (25-7-1, 17 KOs) to win the vacant interim WBA featherweight title on Friday night at Buffalo Bill’s Resort & Casino at Primm, Nevada. read more ...

Cuban rising stars Yuriorkis Gamboa, Odlanier Solis and Erislandy Lara were all victorious on Friday night at Terrible’s Primm Valley Casino Resorts in Primm, Nevada. Unbeaten WBC #2, WBA #3, WBO #6, IBF #8 featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 KOs) scored a tenth round TKO over Roger “Speedy” Gonzalez (27-3, 18 KOs). Gonzalez briefly dropped Gamboa read more ...