Yuriokis Gamboa-Jorge Barrios, James Kirkland-Joel Julio?

[fightingfigs]

Gamboa had better keep his damn hands up.

HAHA he will be because there is going to be a great amount of respect on both sides.

At least I Hope so if not Gamboas gonna get beaten up pretty bad.

[niceguy45]

gamboa will get spanked by barrios

[boxaholic]

Barrios is good and hungry and Julio is just as good as Kirkland. Good fights.

HBO was so impressed with the trio that appeared on the recent "Night of The Rising Stars," that a second appearance for all three, Alfredo Angulo, James Kirkland and Yuriorkis Gamboa, is being discussed with their promoter, Gary Shaw. MaxBoxing/BoxingScene.com's Steve Kim reports that a date of October 11 is being thrown around for the show. [details]

[SkillspayBills]

gamboa will get spanked by barrios

When the fight is signed you want to bet?

[cupcrazy01]

A couple of encouraging things here:

(1) HBO putting its money where its mouth is--they want to win back some credibility by putting on good BAD shows with young prospects actually being tested, instead of coddling guys until they get a title shot (see: Andre Berto, hopefully the last prospect they will ever do that with).

(2) Gary Shaw breaking away from his GBP-HBO like "exclusivity" of sorts with Showtime and making great fights on HBO, obviously because Showtime can't afford them. Either way, it's good to see he isn't going to put Gamboa/Kirkland/Angulo on ShoBox for another year to milk them in much less competitive fights.

If this happens, kudos to HBO and Shaw. Wow, it's weird to type that.

[2501]

cotdayum i love boxing.

[cupcrazy01]

Boxing's future looks very bright if the young fighters are willing to take fights like these.

Yuriokis Gamboa
Amir Khan
Abner Mares
Jorge Linares
Edwin Valero (if he can keep fighting in the USA)
Andre Berto
Kelly Pavlik
Edison Miranda
James Kirkland
Andre Ward
The Dannys (Garcia and Jacobs)
David Haye (hey, I know he's not as young as these other guys, but it's the HEAVYWEIGHT division, where 32 yrs old is young)

[KJB]

that's too big of a step for gamboa....barrios is a worldclass opp.

Meh, Gamboa is an Olypic champion with over four hundred amatuer fights, I think its reasonable they move him along quickly.

[juandabomb]

Kirkland will get KTFO by Julio, Gamboa would be dominate but with his hands down Barrios will catch him slipping and down goes Gamboa

[Bad_Barracuda]

Kirkland will get KTFO by Julio, Gamboa would be dominate but with his hands down Barrios will catch him slipping and down goes Gamboa

Kirkland will whip Julio