Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa to share April 14th card at the MGM Grand
January 26th, 2012
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.
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.
24 Responses to “Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa to share April 14th card at the MGM Grand”
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I see this fight like Acosta vs rios. Difference here. Gamboa Stam. Doesn’t go down so I doud he will be force to trade by Rios. I see Gamboa pot shooting moving in and out of harms way. If Gamboa can even force a stoppage with the 20 punch combos he trows. Is just how I see it
KING GAMBOA is too much for the down syndrome looking face Rios.
rios b dont want to go up in wt ,dont want to face the big boys??? hes not a real frighter.
brandon rios you are not a boxing star mr.bob can only take u so far ,u can fight???
This will be a good fight! But I think Rios is going to overwhelme Gamboa!
Rios by late round stopage.
brandon rios wil get ko soon its coming o ya yes yes .
jerryireland that’s what they said about coloradito vs sal sanchez then wilfredo gomez vs sal sanchez and the rest is history. this Kid is at that leverl
hey Luis Cortez are you related by any chance to the S.O.B joe cortez the corrupt low donw sold out that fk up victor ortiz
If asked by Aliens who is Brandon rios two Words ” La Ley”
olberman you rios must take showers together or share the same crack pipe retart
Gamboa is Arums deposit in the bank. His best fight was against Salido the big mexican warrior!!! Orlando got beat, and destroyed the Lopez hype after that. Bob Arum is killing many talented fighters just for not having a huge ethnic fanbase.
Yuri just has to win by big KO
this guy is a loud mouth knob
rios not a bad fighter but to compare him to salvador sanchez is a joke
one thing to have power but he dont have brains i hope he also hate on ortiz so he worry more about other people career he is a hater i hope they knock some sense into him leave that crack aloneor get cracked
rios if i was you i would worry about your career instead of hating on someone else career the last time i saw you .you looked like you was on crack stop hating when watch you again no future
Rios would get schooled by Marquez, Bradley, Peterson and Pacman. Rios also needs a new personality.
rios would destroy maidana,lucas,alexander,peterson and khan, only bradley and morales have styles to stop rios
Rios Syndrome looking face started running away to next weight division as soon as he finds out that Gamboa was moving up to wooped his a $ $. maricon
brandon rios u r going to get knock out
The “Lion of L.A” This kid is the real deal, he is this coming decade PP king, he has the package. I am excited about this one, Bam Bam should execute Gamboa in 7
KNow your goin to see a young Salvador Sanchez at his prime, this kid Rios is the real Deal , he has power, boxing ability, defense, stratery and balls so heavy he can barely carry them he fights foward slugging like a once chavez sr. once did.
Rios has to go to 140 already he has been coming up at the same time as ortiz…and ortiz is already fighting at 147 and rios is still at 135 and doesnt move up am beginning to think hes scared to go to 140
Yes share the same card but they both aren’t fighting each other. Just some no name chumps, typical of boxing.
If arum is promoting Gamboa he will probably match him against margarito, cotto or clotty at some special catch weight. Gamboas career will be put on hold for many years with that promoter.