By Chris Williams: Former two-time featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) and former World Boxing Organization (WBO) bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (41-3, 34 KO’s) will square off on September 10th in a non-title fight at the Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Yuriorkis Gamboa
Donaire-Gamboa in 2012? Don’t hold your breath waiting for it to happen
By Chris Williams: With both Nonito Donaire and Yuriorkis Gamboa fighting for the same promotional company under Bob Arum at Top Rank, you would think a fight between Donaire and Gamboa would be one that should be fairly easy to put together. Unfortunately, I can’t see it happening anytime soon, as Arum likes to let big fights marinate and sometimes he waits far too long for that to happen.
Gamboa-Ponce De Leon: Just How Far Can Gamboa Go?
By Bradley Pearson: September 17th all eyes will be on boxing’s current superstar attraction Floyd Mayweather Jr, as he makes his long awaited ring return against Victor Ortiz. But precisely one week prior to this, attentions will turn to a champion who hopes to one day emulate Mayweather’s mainstream appeal- one of the sports future virtuoso candidates, unbeaten Cuban sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa.
Gamboa-Ponce De Leon takes place on September 10th
By Eric Thomas: With Juan Manuel Lopez’s defeats removing any chances of a fight between Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) for the time being, Gamboa will instead turn his attention to former World Boxing Organization (WBO) super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce De Leon (41-3, 34 KO’s) for a fight on September 10th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Gamboa could fight on Cotto-Margarito undercard if he beats Ponce De Leon on September 10th
By Dan Ambrose: If Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) gets by Daniel Ponce De Leon (41-3, 34 KO’s) in their September 10th fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic city, New Jersey, Gamboa will possibly be fighting on the undercard of the December 3rd rematch between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
Gamboa vs. Ponce de Leon on 9/10
By Dan Ambrose: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) super bantamweight champion Daniel Ponce de Leon (41-3, 34 KO’s) will be facing former IBF/WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s) on September 10th in an HBO non-title bout in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Gamboa-JuanMa: Another mistake by the boxing world
By Rafa Garcia: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Juan Manuel Lopez was one of the most anticipated match-ups in the last ten years, but yet again Bob Arum of Top Rank Promotions has poured water over the fire by waiting too long and failing to make the fight. There was no reason why Gamboa-JuanMa couldn’t have gone the way of Manny Paquiao – Floyd Mayweather until JuanMa [Juan Manuel Lopez] was blown away by Mexican Orlando Salido.
Gamboa could face Rafael Marquez next, says Arum
By Dan Ambrose: Juan Manuel Lopez (30-1, 27 KO’s) was supposed to be facing Rafael Marquez (39-6, 35 KO’s) in a needless rematch next, but Orlando Salido wrecked those plans by stopping Lopez in the 8th round on April 16th. Lopez now has to waste valuable time in his career going over old ground to try and hopefully avenge the loss to Salido rather than moving on for his money fight with Marquez and a fight with Gamboa. Instead of Lopez getting the rematch with the 36-year-old Marquez it may well be IBF/WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s).
Arum says Lopez-Gamboa back on track if Lopez beats Salido in a rematch
By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum doesn’t see Juan Manuel Lopez’s recent 8th round stoppage loss to Orlando Salido getting in the way of a bout between Lopez and IBF/WBA featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa (20-0, 16 KO’s), as long as Lopez can beat Salido in a rematch in 2011.
Arum still talking Gamboa-Lopez if Juan Manuel beats Salido in the rematch
By Dan Ambrose: Having waited too long to match-up Juan Manuel Lopez with Yuriorkis Gamboa because he wanted to let their fight marinate, Bob Arum, their promoter, hasn’t given up entirely on the Gamboa-Lopez fight after Lopez was destroyed by the tough Mexican Orlando Saldido (35-11. 23 KO’s) last weekend in an 8th round TKO loss in Puerto Rico.