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By Jake Donovan - The bad news for those anxiously awaiting a head-on collision between undefeated featherweights Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa is that it’s still being slowly cooked, with extreme optimism pointing towards a June 2011 showdown at the very earliest.
The good news is that all of the fights leading up to such a matchup from here on out threaten to entertain, if not rock the very core of the division in the process.
All of this comes about in the midst of Gamboa not quite impressing the critics in his most recent performance, a convincing but not particularly entertaining decision win over Orlando Salido.
Thank goodness for a supporting cast.
The truth is that such a fight never really stood much of a chance of being entertaining. Salido is a wily veteran who can make any featherweight look bad on any given night.
Gamboa happened to be that guy on that particular night, although the timing wasn’t the greatest. The fight was what sadly has become a rare HBO fight these days, serving as the only fight card between mid-August and early November.
But with it out of the way, the real fights begin, and it’s not just limited to the boys at the top.
Four days after Gamboa and Salido underwhelmed in their HBO-televised headliner, a hidden gem was unearthed in a mid-week low-rent PPV card, topped by the resurgence of all-action Mexican featherweight Jhonny Gonzalez.
Fighting atop a card celebrating the bicentennial of Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain, Gonzalez delivered one of the best performances of his career, going to toe to toe with Jackson Asiku, rallying back from a rough start to drop and eventually stopping the Australian in six rounds. [Click Here To Read More]
The good news is that all of the fights leading up to such a matchup from here on out threaten to entertain, if not rock the very core of the division in the process.
All of this comes about in the midst of Gamboa not quite impressing the critics in his most recent performance, a convincing but not particularly entertaining decision win over Orlando Salido.
Thank goodness for a supporting cast.
The truth is that such a fight never really stood much of a chance of being entertaining. Salido is a wily veteran who can make any featherweight look bad on any given night.
Gamboa happened to be that guy on that particular night, although the timing wasn’t the greatest. The fight was what sadly has become a rare HBO fight these days, serving as the only fight card between mid-August and early November.
But with it out of the way, the real fights begin, and it’s not just limited to the boys at the top.
Four days after Gamboa and Salido underwhelmed in their HBO-televised headliner, a hidden gem was unearthed in a mid-week low-rent PPV card, topped by the resurgence of all-action Mexican featherweight Jhonny Gonzalez.
Fighting atop a card celebrating the bicentennial of Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain, Gonzalez delivered one of the best performances of his career, going to toe to toe with Jackson Asiku, rallying back from a rough start to drop and eventually stopping the Australian in six rounds. [Click Here To Read More]
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