The writing had been on the wall long enough to know that Yuriorkis Gamboa was headed for a fall sooner than later. His in-ring appearances had been sporadic with those performances coming meandering at best against pedestrian level opposition and had been fighting above his optimal weight for far too long. Finally, at the age of 35 and just two fights into a deal with … [Read more...]
No Country for Old Men: Part Eight
Sometimes a fighter grows old overnight notwithstanding his chronological age. The odometer may have run up too many miles or the reflexes have disappeared (as in the case of Roy Jones, Jr.) or a fighter’s lighting speed vanishes, or perhaps worse of all, the chin is no longer reliable. Yuriorkis Gamboa aka El Ciclon de Guantánamo (26-2) is 35 but he now seems to meet all … [Read more...]
El Ciclon de Guantánamo Blew
If David Lemieux-Curtis Stevens on Saturday night was precisely the type of fight for which HBO's Boxing After Dark was designed, Yuriorkis Gamboa-Rene Alvarado was precisely the type of fight Boxing After Dark was designed to ignore. Gamboa-Alvarado was ten rounds of nothingness showcasing a multi-talented failed superstar refusing to do anything other than the bare minimum … [Read more...]
David Lemieux Tramples Curtis Stevens in Crossroads Clash
In a bout that served as a process of elimination for the Middleweight division, Lemieux and Stevens both came in the fight knowing that a win could re-ignite the momentum each man lost after being respectively battered by Gennady Golovkin and a loss would be devastating for their future prospects. Not as devastating, however, as the left hook that Lemieux landed that not … [Read more...]
Yuriorkis Gamboa Resurfaces With New Promoter, Fight Date
Former two-division champion Yuriorkis Gamboa is set to make another run at a world title, and finally has a major promoter backing him in Golden Boy Promotions after years of gross mismanagement all but wasted the prodigious champions’ prime. Gamboa, who won titles at Jr. Featherweight and Featherweight, will try to make up for lost time in taking a fight against … [Read more...]