Oh by the way, Gamboa fights next Saturday

[El Angel]

Horrible move by Yuri. Should've just fought Rios. This and the steroids allegations, I'm starting to lose hope in him. Dude is already 30 and his best win over Ponce De Leon.

[DannYankee]

Horrible move by Yuri. Should've just fought Rios. This and the steroids allegations, I'm starting to lose hope in him. Dude is already 30 and his best win over Ponce De Leon.

I actually think his best win was Salido and the allegations fizzled out as much for him as for the MLB players involved it was discarded for the low cred of the article and the papers allegedly being fake, the MLB try to buy them to analyze them for ton of money and the guys declined obviously afraid of fraud, but the RIos move was probably the worse move of his career that would have been a big W should have gotten that and THEN go ape **** on BOB.

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[El Angel]

I actually think his best win was Salido and the allegations fizzled out as much for him as for the MLB players involved it was discarded for the low cred of the article and the papers allegedly being fake, the MLB try to buy them to analyze them for ton of money and the guys declined obviously afraid of fraud, but the RIos move was probably the worse move of his career that would have been a big W should have gotten that and THEN go ape **** on BOB.

Didn't know this, make me a feel a LITTLE better And you're right, even though Salido wasn't as highly regarded then as he is now, he was a good win for Yuri. I just think Ponce De Leon is a little bit better.

[DannYankee]

Didn't know this, make me a feel a LITTLE better And you're right, even though Salido wasn't as highly regarded then as he is now, he was a good win for Yuri. I just think Ponce De Leon is a little bit better.

Hindsight is 20/20 He got that win just before Salido blew away Juanma twice so it looks great now. Just like a win over Rios would look now although it was a big jump he would have been able to box his ears off if he stayed disciplined and just like the Salido win looks good after the fact imagine how good a W over Rios would look .

Instead stuck in promotion limbo and inactivity like i said some of the dumbest decisions I've seen anyone make outside of a boxing ring going to be hard to turn this ship around .

[El Angel]

Hindsight is 20/20 He got that win just before Salido blew away Juanma twice so it looks great now. Just like a win over Rios would look now although it was a big jump he would have been able to box his ears off if he stayed disciplined and just like the Salido win looks good after the fact imagine how good a W over Rios would look .

Instead stuck in promotion limbo and inactivity like i said some of the dumbest decisions I've seen anyone make outside of a boxing ring going to be hard to turn this ship around .

He would've boxed Rios silly, look how Rios looked against Abril in that fight, Gamboa would've won and been on to bigger and better things. Now, I really don't know what SMS is gonna do with him.

[prinzemanspopa]

Gamboa doesn't fight anything like Abril. A stubby-armed midget like Gamboa would be forced to utilize a lot more lateral movement than someone like Abril, because he lacks the height and reach to keep him at bay, and he's not big and defensively solid enough to effectively smother Rios at close range.



Gamboa dodged a bullet and a career-ending beating there.

[Rapid Counter]

Good job SMS Promotions. No one knows or cares about this fight.

Hey Gamboa and Dirrell, this is basically what you can look forward to for the rest of your careers fighting under a part time promoter like 50 cent.

Just last year Gamboa while under TopRank was set to face Brandon Rios in one of the biggest fights in boxing, instead a year later, while under the new SMS promotions that was supposed to change the boxing game, he's now fighting Perez in Canada.

SMS Promotions should give you a small percentage since you've done more in this thread to promote the fight than they have

[HeroBando]

Gamboa doesn't fight anything like Abril. A stubby-armed midget like Gamboa would be forced to utilize a lot more lateral movement than someone like Abril, because he lacks the height and reach to keep him at bay, and he's not big and defensively solid enough to effectively smother Rios at close range.



Gamboa dodged a bullet and a career-ending beating there.

I was all on the Gamboa wagon then, and that fight sounded scary as hell. Rios' stock was much higher then, so for a few months Gamboa was it for moving up 2 divisions to fight the guy. But knowing Rios came overweight, yet drained as hell, seems well doable now. You're right he couldn't use Abril's blueprint though.

What got me was, the first callout I saw was from Team Gamboa. Rios seemed more bemused the smaller guy was calling him out, like, he made sure to let you know it wasn't him calling for it. But once the fight started getting real, Gamboa seemed to have second thoughts. I don't really blame him, but it may have took him too far. Then I've read that it was somehow pushed on him by TR, which is an interesting angle. Still they should have thought it through from the beginning

[HeroBando]

The whole promo situation is unclear to me. He split from TR, yet his next fight was on a TR PPV undercard, just with one more guy taking a cut. Then they said he really did it to ditch Oner, which would be a good move, maybe even make it all worthwhile. But then you see him repping Team Oner in Aydin's corner vs Karass. WTF was that, someone explain.

[Light_Speed]

Hindsight is 20/20 He got that win just before Salido blew away Juanma twice so it looks great now. Just like a win over Rios would look now although it was a big jump he would have been able to box his ears off if he stayed disciplined and just like the Salido win looks good after the fact imagine how good a W over Rios would look

It doesn't look that good after Garcia dominated Salido.

Gamboa doesn't fight anything like Abril. A stubby-armed midget like Gamboa would be forced to utilize a lot more lateral movement than someone like Abril, because he lacks the height and reach to keep him at bay, and he's not big and defensively solid enough to effectively smother Rios at close range.



Gamboa dodged a bullet and a career-ending beating there.

He has the footspeed and handspeed to pop in and out and flurry his way to a wide UD. I mean freaking Alvarado outboxed Rios, come on man.