Is Juanma afraid of Gamboa?

[Daniel_T5]

I don't think Juanma is afraid of Gamboa. I think the fight will happen in the future. It may get to the point Gamboa aggressively calls him out.

yup he will agressively call him out a la Caballero and what will Juanma do? Look what happened with Caballero!!!

[AnimalisticMeth]

Good post...Ur right about lopez being no draw,There's no knicks,yankees
jets and giants on a saturday and still couldint sell it out.

Juanma will be a big draw soon and BTW his fight with Luevano was sold out.

[street bully]

What you said and what you mean are two different things. I can tel l you MEAN that Juanma can't be telling someone he is a no name when Juanma himself is a no namer(relatively speaking).

Well yes .

[713832281]

juanma is on an ego trip, like others said, he isnt a draw himself. he didnt wanna fight caballero and now he doesnt wanna fight gamboa.....cotto needs to talk to him and tell him to man up.

[paulf]

He's scarded as **** of Gamboa. Gamboa crush.

[daggum]

they are both ducking billy dibb.

[915]

they are both ducking billy dibb.

Agreed, they don't want none of him

[onechance87]

Juanma will be a big draw soon and BTW his fight with Luevano was sold out.

No it wasint...But ur right about him a draw in the future.But he aint now.

Rafael's remark: In October, Lopez struggled mightily in a junior featherweight title defense against Rogers Mtagwa at Madison Square Garden. Lopez barely hung on to make it to the final bell after being nearly knocked out at the end of the 11th round and getting batted around the ring for the entire 12th round. But that hellish night seems like a long time ago after seeing Lopez's outstanding performance in the main event of HBO's "Boxing After Dark" on Saturday in MSG, with a raucous, near-sellout crowd of 5,142 (mostly Puerto Ricans) almost all rooting for him. Lopez was moving up in weight and challenging the steady Luevano, 28, a fellow southpaw who had made six title defenses and faced some quality opponents. But he just didn't have enough firepower to keep Lopez, 26, off of him. Lopez dominated the fight. His punches were much heavier than Luevano's and they took their toll. Luevano, of La Puente, Calif., had a bloody nose and a swollen left eye. He ate a ton of shots and had only won a single round on one scorecard going into the seventh round. That's when a furious Lopez attack dumped Luevano to the canvas near the ropes. He was very shaky as he got to his feet to beat the count, but his legs were a mess, and referee Benji Esteves wisely called it off.

[CubanGuyNYC]

I'm not sure Lopez is afraid of Gamboa, or anyone else in his division. Juanma's been handled like a potential golden goose for so long that he doesn't see clearly anymore (if he ever did). I think the kid believes his own hype. He sees himself as being a future boxing superstar. From his comments, it would seem he might even think he's already there. Lopez thinks he can speak better than he can, so he tried to be slick and said some silly things.

We'll see Yuri Gamboa and Juanma Lopez fight when Bob Arum thinks he's stirred the sauce long enough. Arum is running the show. At least Gamboa had the sense to say that he'll fight whomever his promoter wants him to fight. Nobody wants to hear that, but that's the way it is. Juanma got into trouble with his comments because everyone knew they were being BSed. It's just insulting.

[elgu]

Yes.

The plan was for Juanma to fight Gamboa in the PR parade this year. However when he saw how Gamboa disposed of Mtagwa he said "f#$k that...im not ready lets do it next year".

Im from Puerto Rico but the truth is the truth Juanma has ducked both Caballero and Gamboa....he better grow some balls if he wants my respect.