By Michael Lieberman: WBA Super World featherweight / IBF featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (19-0, 15 KO’s) will be taking on super featherweight Jorge Solis (40-2-2, 29 KO’s) this Saturday night on HBO at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This is yet another fight where boxing fans are expected to watch Gamboa fight someone that they’re likely not too familiar with while they wait for a distant future bout against fellow Top Rank fighter Juan Manuel Lopez. Gamboa-Solis is a decent fight but not the one boxing fans want to see.

Solis isn’t the best fighter in the super featherweight division and he’s not a featherweight. With the Lopez fight not being made, you would like to see Gamboa at least matched against top contenders like Celestino Caballero, Chris John or Hozumi Hasagawa. That isn’t happening and instead we get Gamboa vs. Solis.

Gamboa is coming off a 12 round decision win over Orlando Salido in his last fight in September last year. It was a dull fight with Gamboa dominating. Not much fun to watch unless like one-sided fights. Odd enough, Lopez is now being matched against Salido in his next fight in a real head scratcher. Who knows why. It’s been a while since Gamboa was matched against anyone interesting, perhaps dating back to January 2010 when he defeated Rogers Mtagwa in a nice fight.

Solis has won his last three fights since being beaten by Christobal Cruz in July 2009. Solis, 31, has beaten some good fighters in Likar Ramos, Mario Santiago and Francisco Codero and done it in dominating fashion. However, Solis isn’t in Gamboa’s league and is going to get beaten easily. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to see Gamboa-Lopez while they’re still young and unbeaten.