By Eric Thomas: In a night of early knockouts due to poor matchmaking, featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (14-0, 12 KOs) destroyed destroyed Walter Estrada (35-9, 24 KOs) seconds into the fight, hitting him with a flurry of power shots ending with a big right hand to send him down for the count. It was no surprise, because Estrada had a poor record going into the fight and had been knocked out early in two of his last seven fights. In the end, he was simply too slow for Gamboa and looked as if he was fighting in slow motion next to the speedy Gamboa.
Erislandy Lara
Gamboa vs. Estrada, Prescott-Toledo & Lara-Gross Tonight
By Jim Dower: Undefeated Cuban featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 KOs) sees action tonight against Colombian journeyman Walter Estrada (35-8, 24 KOs) in an eight-round bout at the University Center Arena, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Gamboa, 27, a former 2004 Olympic Gold medalist for Cuba, is one of the most exciting fighters in the featherweight division and all of boxing for that matter.
Gamboa back in action on Feb 20; Euban Predicts DeGale Will Fail – Boxing News
ARENA’s fast rising featherweight superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa (13-0, 11 kos) will be back in action again on February 20th at the University Center Arena in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Only six weeks after stopping Roger “Speedy” Gonzalez in round 10 at his last ESPN appearance “El Ciclon” is ready to shine again on the next “Friday Night Fights” show presented by ARENA Box-Promotion US, LLC.
Prescott, Gutierrez, Lara On Feb 20th; Murray-McAllister – News
ARENA has started off this year’s ESPN “Friday Night Fights” series last week with Yuriorkis Gamboa, Odlanier Solis and Erislandy Lara scoring impressive wins in Primm, Nevada. On February 20th, promoter Ahmet Öner will present his next FNF show live from the University Center Arena at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Tickets Selling Fast For Pavlik-Rubio; Cuban Stars Gamboa, Lara and Solis Victorious – News
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow could keep the Pavlik Nation from the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown this morning to purchase tickets to World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK’S homecoming title defense against No. 1 contender Marco Antonio Rubio.
Lara Stops Aguiar In 1st Round TKO
By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight prospect Erislandy Lara (3-0, 2 KOs) stopped a badly over-matched Rodrigo Aguiar (5-4, 3 KOs) in the 1st round of a scheduled four-round bout on Friday night at the Buffalo Bill’s Star Arena, in Primm, Nevada. Lara, 25, landed a nice left-right combination at the end of the 1st round, knocking Aguiar down on his backside. Aguiar then staggered to his feet but referee Joe Cortez put a stop to the bout at 2:59 of the 1st.
Elcock-Macklin, Gamboa-Gonzalez, Lara-Aguiar – Boxing News
Wayne Elcock and Matthew Macklin will square off in the ‘Battle of Brum’ in the biggest Birmingham boxing derby in living memory at the Aston Arena on Saturday, 14th March. The fight Birmingham has been waiting for will become reality when Elcock makes the second defence of his British Middleweight Title against Mandatory Challenger Macklin, who has won his last six fights since he was stopped by Jamie Moore for the British Light-Middleweight Title in 2006..
Lara-Aguiar, Solis-Burnett, Gamboa-Gonzalez, Margarito – News
Cuban rising stars Yuriorkis Gamboa, Odlanier Solis and Erislandy Lara looked focused but also relaxed at the press conference for their fights on Friday at Terrible’s Primm Valley Casino Resorts in Primm, Nevada.
“We had a great preparation, everything went according to plans”, stated “El Ciclon” Gamboa. “Of course, it is hard to work over Christmas and New Year’s but I love what I’m doing and I know that I have to make certain sacrifices to become champion of the world.”
Erislandy Lara Annihilates Alekseevs
By Erik Schmidt: Undefeated middleweight prospect Erislandy Lara (2-0, 1 KOs) obliterated his opponent Denis Alekseevs (5-22-2, 4 KOs) in the 1st round of a scheduled 4-round bout on Friday night at the , Kugelbake Halle, Cuxhaven, in Niedersachsen, Germany, knocking him down three times in the process. Lara, only 25, a former Cuban National champion and world champion, was all over his over-matched opponent in the first round, hitting him at will with uppercuts and hooks to the head. Within a matter of seconds, Alekseevs was knocked down with a powerful left to the head.
He got up, covering up with both hands glued to his head, and began taking big windmill shots from Lara. After a second, Lara was warned for throwing a rabbit punch by referee. As soon as the action resumed, he quickly sent Alekseevs down for the second time, this time with a right hook to the head.