Comments Thread For: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Ponce De Leon Interview Transcript

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ATLANTIC CITY -- Undefeated former World Boxing Association (WBA) Featherweight World Champion YURIORKIS GAMBOA and former World Boxing Organization (WBO) Junior Featherweight World Champion DANIEL PONCE DE LEON, along with their respective promoters, Bob Arum and Ahmet Öner for Gamboa, and for De Leon, Richard Schaefer, CEO Golden Boy Promotions, hosted a media conference call today to discuss their 12-round featherweight rumble, which will take place Saturday, September 10, at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. The fight will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing®, beginning at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast).

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[CubanGuyNYC]

Some exciting comments by Arum about a fight with Gamboa and the winner of the Lopez-Salido rematch; also about Donaire moving up to featherweight and fighting Yuri. We heard this a few days ago, but repetition helps drive the message home. I found Arum's comments about the reasons for the inability to build a Cuban fan-base interesting, as well.

I really can't wait for this fight. It feels like it's been forever since I last saw Yuri in action. It's going to be even tougher to wait for a more exciting match like JuanMa or Nonito.

[mex602]

Gamboa is going to tax that ass!!!!

[newcastleking]

ponce just has to survive the early rounds where gamboa is fast and sharp. he gets sloppy in the later rounds, he loses his chage and ties up plenty plus it has been the year of the "mexican underdog" right?

[ИATAS]

ponce just has to survive the early rounds where gamboa is fast and sharp. he gets sloppy in the later rounds, he loses his chage and ties up plenty plus it has been the year of the "mexican underdog" right?

yeah that's probably what he needs to do, but Gamboa finished real strong against Salido knocking him down a couple times in the final round and probably would have finished him off and got the KO if he didn't make the mistake of hitting him when he was down, thus causing cortez to take a 2 point deduction and giving salido time to recover from the beating.