HBO has officially canceled boxing for April 14th

[William Blake]

I understand that Gamboa feels he needs to stand-up for himself. But there are some questions Gamboa needs to answer;

1. Why not have the dispute with the promoter after the match?

2. If there was never a serious intention to fight Rios, why call him out?

3. Why pull out in the manner that you did? (No shows are gutless. Especially in the adopted hometown, in front of his fans, and with the mayor present)

This whole situation disappointing due to the high expectations for an all-action, quality fight that fans didn't have to shell out 50 plus for.

At the same time, there is definitely a lot more going on than the fans are aware of. The whole truth will come out in time. I hope that more fans can try to defer judgement until then.

[Syf]

Good. I pay good money to get HBO and i am a boxing fan that doesnt want to watch crap fights on a channel i am paying for. Arum andTop Rank knew that Gamboa wasnt going to do the fight before this all went down. Only a fool would think Gamboa all of the sudden decided to bail. TR tried to strong arm him and it didint work. Tried to set-up fake argument and fight for publicity and HBO didnt buy into it. Good for them.

So because you pay for Hbo you would rather watch nothing instead of a slightly worse card? What flawed logic! I'm a boxing fan, i like to watch the little guys, the superstars, and everything inbetween.

[Elotero]

I understand that Gamboa feels he needs to stand-up for himself. But there are some questions Gamboa needs to answer;

1. Why not have the dispute with the promoter after the match?

2. If there was never a serious intention to fight Rios, why call him out?

3. Why pull out in the manner that you did? (No shows are gutless. Especially in the adopted hometown, in front of his fans, and with the mayor present)

This whole situation disappointing due to the high expectations for an all-action, quality fight that fans didn't have to shell out 50 plus for.

At the same time, there is definitely a lot more going on than the fans are aware of. The whole truth will come out in time. I hope that more fans can try to defer judgement until then.

Crazy irony. Guy keeps expatriating.

[Fetta]

So because you pay for Hbo you would rather watch nothing instead of a slightly worse card? What flawed logic! I'm a boxing fan, i like to watch the little guys, the superstars, and everything inbetween.

If they allow crap fights then we are back to years past when crap fights were on every weekend. The new HBO regime hopefully will fix that, so yes i would love to watch boxing everyday if they show it but i also want HBO to fix the problem of crap fights and showcases every weekend.

[kiaba360]

Berto and Kessler postpone their fights, Dibella ****s around and takes Andy Lee off the March 17th card, Quillin will fight Winky, and now this?? Come on man!! Goddamn can't Boxing get a ****in break???

[CubanGuyNYC]

I understand that Gamboa feels he needs to stand-up for himself. But there are some questions Gamboa needs to answer;

1. Why not have the dispute with the promoter after the match?

2. If there was never a serious intention to fight Rios, why call him out?

3. Why pull out in the manner that you did? (No shows are gutless. Especially in the adopted hometown, in front of his fans, and with the mayor present)

This whole situation disappointing due to the high expectations for an all-action, quality fight that fans didn't have to shell out 50 plus for.

At the same time, there is definitely a lot more going on than the fans are aware of. The whole truth will come out in time. I hope that more fans can try to defer judgement until then.

Agreed...a lot of questions. But I especially agree to the bold.

I get the sense that Yuri and his advisors (if they can be called such) dropped the ball long before the promotion for this fight got rolling. Then Gamboa mishandled the ensuing situation. "The cure was worse than the disease."

[bigcursedawg]

F'ing Gamboa HBO should ban him for at least a year. Let him go fight on independent PPV's. ESPN, none TV fights.

Good job on HBO props to them for not accepting just anything. Ken Hershman, is going to be great for HBO. Stephen Espinoza and Showtime should take notes.

Top Rank should have offered a better opponent *cough* Alvarado *cough*

The question now is, is Mandalay Bay still the site to host Rios fight?

The only guy I really feel bad for is Rios.

Showtime is the only network that has had a good fight this year and it would have been two good fights but Berto was injured.
But I agree Alvarado would have been a much better fight and could have been easily made. The only reason bob probably didn't make that fight is because he would want more time to promote that fight. Because no matter who replaces Gamboa its still a last minute replacement and the sales of the fight will suffer.

[Syf]

If they allow crap fights then we are back to years past when crap fights were on every weekend. The new HBO regime hopefully will fix that, so yes i would love to watch boxing everyday if they show it but i also want HBO to fix the problem of crap fights and showcases every weekend.

I prefer enduring the occasional crap fight to watching boxing three times a year... Hate on stuff like Shobox all you want, but I enjoy watching the prospects and up and comers too. Like i said Hbo is becoming a two trick poney and right now, until the MW and Pac fights, I prefer Showtime. At least they giving me something.

[-Kev-]

Yes please, keep Top Rank away from my TV.


Gamboa good luck on working your way out of this corruption.

[Ringlife]

Damn that sucks. I rather have HBO save their money then to have Rios fight someone not worth watching on that day. It does suck that they couldn't put Alvarado vs Rios on that date. would have been cool at 140 Rios didn't do anything wrong but it is what it is.