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By Jake Donovan - Networks love comparison fights, especially when the goal is to eventually match two fighters in a perceived super fight somewhere down the road.
The two-year long tease was that – after properly marinated – boxing would get the mother of all featherweight collisions between unbeaten titlists Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez. A comparison performance had already come the year prior, when Gamboa beat the stuffing out of Rogers Mtagwa just three months after Juan Manuel Lopez went life and death with the very same fighter one weight class below.
Still, Lopez enjoyed a brilliant enough 2010 campaign to where his handlers apparently thought he was bulletproof, and that taking on a version of Orlando Salido coming off of a hard-fought points loss to Gamboa was a good way to further pique interest in a future head-on collision.
What instead came about was a game-changing moment for the featherweight division, and the measuring stick for all other title fight upsets. [Click Here To Read More]
The two-year long tease was that – after properly marinated – boxing would get the mother of all featherweight collisions between unbeaten titlists Yuriorkis Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez. A comparison performance had already come the year prior, when Gamboa beat the stuffing out of Rogers Mtagwa just three months after Juan Manuel Lopez went life and death with the very same fighter one weight class below.
Still, Lopez enjoyed a brilliant enough 2010 campaign to where his handlers apparently thought he was bulletproof, and that taking on a version of Orlando Salido coming off of a hard-fought points loss to Gamboa was a good way to further pique interest in a future head-on collision.
What instead came about was a game-changing moment for the featherweight division, and the measuring stick for all other title fight upsets. [Click Here To Read More]
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