The real story behind Gamboa losing his IBF belt

[edgarg]

Last week, Miguel Angel Garcia fought in an IBF final eliminator in the undercard of Gamboa-Solis. A win was going to elevate him as Gamboa's next mandatory.

The problem? His team publicly confessed that Mikey was not ready for Gamboa yet.

The other problem? He's being promoted by Top Rank. Uncle Bob doesn't feed his prospects to the wolves just like that...

The Top Rank solution: Why not have 3 champs instead of just 2 and a prospect?

Since this is in Bob's best interest, they didn't allow Gamboa to participate in the second weigh-in required by the IBF. Gamboa felt Top Rank was being unfair to him. That situation made him unhappy and frustrated since he had the required weight to keep his two belts.

He then decided to throw knives at Top Rank right after his fight during the Kellerman interview. As a response, Top Rank cancelled his post-fight press conference and didn't tell him. Gamboa went to the "press conference" and found himself alone, no one was attending.

Now the good part. As planned by Bob, another final eliminator has been mandated by the IBF. Mexicans Jorge Lacierva and Fernando Beltrán will fight to get that winning ticket. The winner will face Mikey Garcia and Garcia will finally become a champion, the easy way...

To make it short, Arum took a belt from Gamboa and gave it to Garcia. Uncle Bob is still the boss. It's sickening to know how he can manipulate the game the way he wants and get along with it. At the end of the day, the good fights never happen and the sport keeps going down.

He will now have 3 Latin champions, one Cuban, one Puerto Rican, and of course, one Mexican. Top Rank now controls the featherweight scene, it possesses all the champions and nobody else will be able to do a thing about it.

A Mexican champ in boxing has too much value, it's like a precious gem. That's why this all happened. Instead of facing Gamboa as he should, Mikey will now become a champ and a cash cow.

These 3 fighters would do awesome fights if mixed together. Instead, you can count on Uncle Bob to milk them for a few years. He will try to create a big Cuban-Boricua-Mexican rivalry, and all the fans will be suffering while those fights don't happen.

I mean, the rivalry will be fun, now Mexicans can jump in the big party and all... but this shouldn't happen this way. A promoter shouldn't have this much power. All this politic bs is bad for boxing.

If the team say their guy is NOT ready, you can't accuse Arum of preventing "the good fights" from happening. If this fight happened, it OBVIOUSLY would not be a GOOD fight.

Would it?

[edgarg]

If the team say their guy is NOT ready, you can't accuse Arum of preventing "the good fights" from happening. If this fight happened, it OBVIOUSLY would not be a GOOD fight.

Would it?

And having 3 champs (which is not yet a "given") is good for everyone including importantly, the fighters who will have champions to fight against, instead of "guys who are not yet ready".

[Jack Napier]

good starting post, but who gives a fuck?
the belts are immaterial now, except at the bargaining table
Lopez is the de facto FW champion right now
Gamboa is the top challenger
whoever wins is the FW king
Gamboa don't really need a title belt now

[KnockUTheFukOut]

*** THAT BULL**** BELT ANYWAY! It is no benefits from having a ton of belts, you have to pay their BULL**** Fees just to keep the Belt

[Rick Grimes]

Bob Arum is a business man, he doesn't care what the fans want. The longer he keeps them apart the more money he gets.

[King Ju-Ju]

Good stuff man. I kinda figured something along those lines happened. Its f*kked up for Gamboa. And Mikey too. He's better then that u know. It aint his fault one bit but I'm sure he didn't want this to happen like his either. F*kking uncle Bob...... He literally does wgatever he wants and doesn't eveb care if huis fighters like it. Imnagine how many ****s he can giove about the fans opinions.

[Instinto]

It crossed my mind that Gamboa intentionally didn't come to weigh-in go pass IBF belt to Mikey. I don't see any problem in that, this paper belt wasn't going to add something on Gamboa's resume, but it's needed to promote Garcia.

[eeastwood]

Would appreciate some links though. Can anyone confirm that Gamboa showed up to the conference unaware that it was cancelled? And what was TR's excuse for not allowing him to participate in the weigh in??

I connect to question...

[King Ju-Ju]

It crossed my mind that Gamboa intentionally didn't come to weigh-in go pass IBF belt to Mikey. I don't see any problem in that, this paper belt wasn't going to add something on Gamboa's resume, but it's needed to promote Garcia.

its still unfair to basically get forced to give up your belt to the next dude just because your and his promoter don't think he is ready for you.

[dvb]

garcia wont be no cash cow,hes boring as hell.

unless he gets more exciting all the way through fights he wont be no earner,and if he doesnt earn to well he might just be fed to gamboa at some point.