News - Yuriorkis Gamboa

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 ...

2004 Olympic gold medalist Yuriorkis "El Ciclon de Guantanamo" Gamboa sat down with Ryan Burton for his first interview on Boxingtalk. As one of boxing's biggest prospects, there is much talk of the former Cuban Olympian fighting for a world title in the near future. Although his pro career has been short and he has shown some defensive lapses, the offense-minded Gamboa is confident and poised to put on a show for the world read more ...

In a bout for the WBC interim super welterweight championship, Sergio Martinez (44-1-1, 24 KOs) totally outclassed Alex Bunema (30-6-2, 16 KOs) on Saturday night at the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California. Martinez was in command from the opening bell and the one-sided bout was finally stopped at the end of the eighth round read more ...