By Chris Williams: According to Dan Rafael, former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios and former featherweight/super featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa will be sharing the same card on April 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

They were both supposed to be on a March 3rd card but that’s been pushed ahead to April 14th. It doesn’t matter much to boxing fans because neither fighter is rumored to be facing anyone particularly interesting. There’s talk of Rios fighting lightweight contender John Molina and Gamboa possibly facing former WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez or Rocky Juarez.

Neither guy would be an earth shattering opponent for Gamboa, and not the kind that would cause the boxing world to take notice or want to cancel appointments to see the fight. Gamboa’s promoter Bob Arum hasn’t done a whole heck of a lot with in terms of setting up interesting fights. Arum sat on a potentially interesting fight between Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez for two years, and the fight never happened because Lopez finally got beaten by Orlando Salido.

I guess the best fight of Gamboa’s five year pro career thus far is Daniel Ponce De Leon, which was a decent fight but not one big enough to make a star out of Gamboa. Basically Gamboa got Lopez’s leftovers in De Leon and didn’t look nearly as good as Lopez did in beating him.

Look for Gamboa to be put in with another dull choice by Arum with few boxing fans, other than the hardcore variety, really caring about his next fight.

Gamboa needs to move up in weight to super featherweight and get matched against WBO champion Adrien Broner and then move up again after that to lightweight. There are zero big fights at super featherweight other than Broner, so Gamboa will have to be pushed up.

Rios reportedly has a new nutritionist and is working to keep his weight down low so he can make the lightweight limit this time after failing to make weight in his last fight against John Murray.

Rios may not be long for the lightweight division and that could cripple his career because he won’t likely be such a big deal against the 140 pounders like Marcos Maidana and Timothy Bradley to name just a couple.