By Chris Williams: Hard-hitting Mexican Jorge Solis (40-3-2, 29 KO’s) described the experience of fighting WBA World featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) as “Terrible” after getting knocked down five times on Saturday night and stopped in the 4th round at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Solis, 31, never had a chance as Gamboa was both too fast and too powerful for him to deal with. After the fight, Solis had this to say about Pacquiao’s power in comparison to Gamboa: “Pacquiao doesn’t hit that hard. He throws a lot of punches but he doesn’t hit that hard.”

Pacquiao defeated Solis by an 8th round stoppage in 2007. However, Solis did a lot better job against Pacquiao compared to Gamboa, who he was never competitive against for even a brief moment.

Gamboa, 29, knocked Solis down twice in the 2nd, once in the 3rd round, and two more times in the 4th. The second knockdown in the 2nd round was more of a pull down rather than an actual knockdown. It didn’t really matter because it was clear even then that Solis wasn’t going to be able to make it out of this fight on his feet because he was really getting dominated. In the 3rd, Gamboa tagged Solis with a hard left uppercut near the end of the round that sent him to the canvas and seemed to really hurt Solis badly. In between rounds, Solis looked frustrated and unsure what to do against Gamboa. He just didn’t have any answers.

In the 4th, Gamboa landed a clean right hand that sent Solis down on his backside. After he got up, Gamboa went after him and opened up with a flurry of shots that ended with Solis doing down from what appeared to be a rabbit punch. However, Solis was bent over when Gamboa was throwing a flurry of shots, so it’s not surprising that some of them landed on the back of Solis’ head. The rabbit punches were a problem for Gamboa, because he threw a lot of them throughout the fight and Solis seemed to be really bothered by them. He would have been knocked out anyway, but the rabbit shots certainly didn’t help him any.