Comments Thread For: Photos: Rios - Coward Gamboa Never Wanted To Fight

[MRESPE2010]

Shame on Gamboa

We all know Gamboa called out Rios... and now he aint man enough or brave enough to back up his call out... Brandon's willingness to accept his challenge made him think twice about going through with it.... What a COWARD!

[mannygati]

wow i cant belive gamboa did that i would understand if he came out as soon as the fight was announce and say i havent agree to anything but cmon why wait until now to do this i think hes is a top figther in both 126 and 130 but i gotta say i lost respect for him atlease come out urself and xplain to the media what realy happen real boxing fans want to know why

[Russian Crushin]

Who are people so sympathetic to Gamboa JUST because he's a FW? Why does this matter one bit? He wanted to fight rios, then agreed and now is refusing to fight because of "promotional pacts"

Not to mention the he is a favorite on just about every betting site makes it a non-issue.

[Atreyu Khalil]

I understand that Gamboa apparently (which I don't believe, I personally feel Ahmet Oner and Top Rank twisted his words) called out Rios. But for Rios to make a big deal out of this, shows me what kind of p*ssy he is!

Actually you are correct, Gamboa never CALLED OUT RIOS....Gamboa wanted bigger fights. Top Rank & Arum are the ones who brainstormed the idea of pitting Rios vs Gamboa......I haven't yet to see a quote from last year where Gamboa actually said "I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY MOVE UP 2 WEIGHT CLASSES TO FIGHT BRANDON RIOS"

[antrecasner]

That's cause they don't understand what it means when some one points out that a LW calling a FW a coward for not going through with his call-out, is hilarious. Let's see Ortiz call out the #1 WW's and JMW's in the first place. He wouldn't do that. Look at him he's big and he's killing himself to make 135 to fight smaller dudes. He wants nothing to do with guys his size. He's the size of a WW, he's supposed to be fighting guys like Pacquiao, Ortiz, Berto, and even JMW's like Mayweather*, Cotto, Lara, Kirkland. But he wouldn't do that cause all of them would **** him up and he knows it. Gamboa probably ****s him up to. If the fight happens and Gamboa beats him, I would laugh so hard at this guy and his brute fans.

Any of those guys at jmw would be career suicide for Rios.

[Dedication]

Actually you are correct, Gamboa never CALLED OUT RIOS....Gamboa wanted bigger fights. Top Rank & Arum are the ones who brainstormed the idea of pitting Rios vs Gamboa......I haven't yet to see a quote from last year where Gamboa actually said "I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY MOVE UP 2 WEIGHT CLASSES TO FIGHT BRANDON RIOS"

Neither have I. Where's this mysterious quote from Gamboa that everyone's talking about.

[Dedication]

Any of those guys at jmw would be career suicide for Rios.

But isn't that what Rios balloons up to?

[Atreyu Khalil]

Who are people so sympathetic to Gamboa JUST because he's a FW? Why does this matter one bit? He wanted to fight rios, then agreed and now is refusing to fight because of "promotional pacts"

Not to mention the he is a favorite on just about every betting site makes it a non-issue.

I agree with a lot that you have said regarding this subject R.C. but I haven't seen anything from Gamboa directly calling out Rios. An article that i posted from Yahoo Sports in Nov 2011 stated that Gamboa wanted bigger fights and it was Top Rank who figured Rios-Gamboa would be one of those "bigger fights" for Gamboa.....

[koolttt]

Actually you are correct, Gamboa never CALLED OUT RIOS....Gamboa wanted bigger fights. Top Rank & Arum are the ones who brainstormed the idea of pitting Rios vs Gamboa......

Lets try this AGAIN:

Gamboa, who was frustrated by his inability to land a super fight with former featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez, finally opted to call out Rios last year after a victory over Daniel Ponce de Leon in Atlantic City, N.J.

http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ki-iole_gamboa_rios_title_fight_021612

Gamboa should of never called out Rios in the first place.

[Atreyu Khalil]

Neither have I. Where's this mysterious quote from Gamboa that everyone's talking about.