Yuriorkis Gamboa

**Ramamaiden** · 01-01-2008, 08:08 PM

oh yes...this guy is the future

**Jim Jeffries** · 01-01-2008, 08:17 PM

First resume I think I've seen ever where the first 7 names all had winning records. I saw one of his fights on Youtube, his last one, and he looked wicked fast and powerful, though with some defensive lapses. He's 26, with an extensive amatuer background, if he stays on the fast track, he might have a title within a year. At 5'5" though he might want to go back to featherweight.

**SkillspayBills** · 01-01-2008, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by gavinz1970

First resume I think I've seen ever where the first 7 names all had winning records. I saw one of his fights on Youtube, his last one, and he looked wicked fast and powerful, though with some defensive lapses. He's 28, with an extensive amatuer background, if he stays on the fast track, he might have a title within a year. At 5'5" though he might want to go back to featherweight.

He just turned 26 and height doesn't win fights, skills do.

**Zerwas1** · 01-01-2008, 08:23 PM

Look at my avatar :-)
I've seen some of his fight pro and amateur
Wba has him 5th at featherweight and the Wbc has him 12th at super featherweight. He could school Valero right now.

**Tyson Jones** · 01-01-2008, 08:34 PM

I have a few of his fights on dvd, very impressive, his facial features and body features remind me alot of tyson, his style is like pernell whitaker mixed with tyson, he would definently school valero now.

**Guest** · 01-01-2008, 08:44 PM

Gamboa is fighting Freddie Norwood. Now, there is a blast from the past. I didn't realize he was still fighting.
Seems like that him and Solis are getting some names, albeit past-primers on their resumes pretty quickly.
They've been boxing a very long time so it's nice to see new blood in the featherweights now that every one seemed to have moved up

JReckoning

**borikua** · 01-01-2008, 09:53 PM

**Sidnalroy** · 01-02-2008, 08:43 PM

hall I have to say about gamboa is that those are not human speed. I would love to see him front diaz.

**Gareth Ivanovic** · 01-02-2008, 09:21 PM

I watched one of his fights on Youtube and damn was he fast. His hands were real quick and he liked to let them go. His head movement was great plus his foot speed was great as well. Im kind of worried how low he holds his hands, but his reflexes are so fast he's hard to hit. Definitely see him being in a meaningful fight soon and possibly being champ by the end of the year. A fight in the future that would be interesting would be Linares/Gamboa.

Yuriorkis Gamboa