Comments Thread For: Brandon Rios-Yuriorkis Gamboa Confirmed For April 14

[Kagami Taiga]

What is such a tough task?

rios will probably outweigh him by close to 20lbs. its not at all an easy proposition. this is more like floyd/castillo 1 than any other fight i can think of.

[damit305]

Wait what!!!

I was always under the impression that matches were made according to weight, thanks to Phenom now I know that height, skills, and weight are all factors.

Height plays a role when debating fighter advantages from an objective perspective. Why not bring it up and make **** more interesting?

It doesn't always have to be by the 'book'.

[-Kev-]

ppl dont realize how tough of a task this is gonna be for gamboa. but im with him on this fight. we'll see how good he really is now.

If he loses, he's still a special fighter to me. He's in a win-win situation here. If he loses, he just lost to the way bigger man+Ring #1 Lightweight, and jumped two weight classes. Then he goes down to 130 with his 1 loss to the best LW(after Marquez the LW champ of course).

If he wins, well all hell will break lose for Gamboa's career. He'll be kinda like Pac when he beat Diaz. Only instead of fighting one of the whackest LW's, he fought the best one, #1 LW.

Rooting for Gamboa on this one, I hope he wins for boxing's sake. If he wins, boxing will have one of the few true top 10 P4P fighters along with Mayweather, Ward, Martinez, and Marquez.

[Phenom]

Wait what!!!

I was always under the impression that matches were made according to weight, thanks to Phenom now I know that height, skills, and weight are all factors.

well even though Donaire is beating up on midgets with obvious size advantage at least he has the skills can't say the same for Rios

[THE REED]

Agreed kev...

[Kagami Taiga]

If he loses, he's still a special fighter to me. He's in a win-win situation here. If he loses, he just lost to the way bigger man+Ring #1 Lightweight, and jumped two weight classes. Then he goes down to 130 with his 1 loss to the best LW(after Marquez the LW champ of course).

If he wins, well all hell will break lose for Gamboa's career. He'll be kinda like Pac when he beat Diaz. Only instead of fighting one of the whackest LW's, he fought the best one, #1 LW.

Rooting for Gamboa on this one, I hope he wins for boxing's sake. If he wins, boxing will have one of the few true top 10 P4P fighters along with Mayweather, Ward, Martinez, and Marquez.

i agree that he'll still be special. but if he wins this one, man, the kid has some damn balls. ill proly be a fan for life after this.

[PBFP4P]

rios will probably outweigh him by close to 20lbs. its not at all an easy proposition. this is more like floyd/castillo 1 than any other fight i can think of.

Close to 20 pounds? Gamboa is pretty stocky dude. Also was draining himself at 126 to get big fights. He should be at 130. That's where he started at. He really is moving up one weight-class.

Also going down in weight is tougher than going up. If Rios is truly that much bigger, then that means he would be weaker making the weight, where Gamboa might be stronger.

[damit305]

If he loses, he's still a special fighter to me. He's in a win-win situation here. If he loses, he just lost to the way bigger man+Ring #1 Lightweight, and jumped two weight classes. Then he goes down to 130 with his 1 loss to the best LW(after Marquez the LW champ of course).

If he wins, well all hell will break lose for Gamboa's career. He'll be kinda like Pac when he beat Diaz. Only instead of fighting one of the whackest LW's, he fought the best one, #1 LW.

Rooting for Gamboa on this one, I hope he wins for boxing's sake. If he wins, boxing will have one of the few true top 10 P4P fighters along with Mayweather, Ward, Martinez, and Marquez.

I'm with you on most everything. If Gamboa loses in OUR eyes he is still a special fighter, however I feel he'll take a serious hit and would have to have major W -run @ 126-130 to be recognized again. It's a gamble.

WAR GAMBOA!!

[Phenom]

Close to 20 pounds? Gamboa is pretty stocky dude. Also was draining himself at 126 to get big fights. He should be at 130. That's where he started at. He really is moving up one weight-class.

Also going down in weight is tougher than going up. If Rios is truly that much bigger, then that means he would be weaker making the weight, where Gamboa might be stronger.

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=535243

[CubanGuyNYC]

After mayweather and Pac hang them up, Gamboa is up next on the p4p throne!

Good chance of that...but he's gotta get past Rios first.