By Miguel Rivera

Tony González, manager of Olympic champion Yuriorkis Gamboa, is frustrated that his boxer is unable to secure some of the necessary key matches in the lower divisions. He says the reason Gamboa moved up to 135-pounds is because they were unable to make fights with other contenders and champions at the weight. Gamboa faces undefeated Darley Perez on Saturday night at the Bell Centre in Montreal. HBO will televise the contest.

Gonzalez reflects on Gamboa's past and claims Top Rank kept his fighter away from Juan Manuel "Juamna" Lopez, although both were under the same promotional banner at the time.

"In the smaller weight categories, there is a cap on what you can make. The best thing to do is move up and find an opponents who guarantee the best purses. At 126-pounds he faced everyone except 'Juanma' López because they were protecting him. Now [Top Rank] is going to sacrifice him to make Mikey Garcia's career. Top Rank protects their fighters and that prevents us from making fights. We wanted to make a fight with Rocky Martínez at 130 pounds, but it was not possible; then we are looking for Juan Carlos Burgos and we couldn't get him, so we decided to go to 135 pounds where there are good boxers who guarantee good fights and good purses," Gonzalez told Terra Deportes.

Gamboa also chimed in with his thoughts.

"We were willing to fight with Juanma López to unify the titles, but they never made that fight. Then he was put in to fight Salido, which didn't make much sense because I had already beaten [Salido]. If you have a champion he must fight with the boxer who wins. What happened is that they were protecting Juanma López and things went very wrong for [Top Rank]," Gamboa said,