Yuriorkis Gamboa: record, next fight and profile →
This Saturday, August 29, Olympic gold medalist and four-time, three-division world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa will become the latest high-profile boxer to try his luck without gloves, as he makes his bare-knuckle boxing debut against Yesner Talavera in the main event of the BKB 58 event at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
Heavyweight prospect Gustavo Trujillo will share the stage alongside a pair of Cuban legends – Guillermo Rigondeaux and Yuriorkis Gamboa – on May 30 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Yuriorkis Gamboa and Guillermo Rigondeaux now have opponents - and a new venue - for their May 30 co-headlining card.
Guillermo Rigondeaux and Yuriorkis Gamboa, two of Cuba's top fighters of this century, will co-headline in separate bouts at the James L. Knight Center on May 2 in Miami.
Wales’ Lee Selby has followed Yuriorkis Gamboa in agreeing to enter bare-knuckle boxing by signing up for BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing in what has been described as a “multi-fight, multi-year agreement”
The Cuban Olympic gold medallist and former world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa has become the latest retired professional boxer to enter bare-knuckle boxing after agreeing terms to fight in BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing
While 29 Cuban boxers have won 42 Olympic gold medals, only four of them have won professional world titles. Dustin Wiens explores the careers of the 14 gold medalists who did turn pro.
Injuries, promotional disputes and other snafus led to these anticipated fights being snake-bitten.
Over the next couple of weeks, BoxingScene writers are listing their favorite fights. First up is Kieran Mulvaney and the coming-out party of one of boxing’s modern greats: Terence Crawford
Every boxer who enters the ring puts their health, if not their life, on the line — though boxing fans often reserve the title of “warrior” for only a select few prizefighters. “I’m a warrior,” Andre Ward once said, offering a logical alternative perspective. “But people only give the ‘warrior’ tag if you get cut every other fight or you’re in a Fight of the Year candidate every other fight.” He has a point. “Warrior” is a badge of courage that all boxers proudly wear to commemorate them risking their health and safety to entertain fans of the sport. But not all badges are the same size. Ward earned his badge by consistently fighting quality opposition. Other fighters earn their badge by fighting through injury.