Comments Thread For: Oner: Gamboa, Huge Talent Wasted By Extreme Greed

[Warrios]

Aint you a sorry ass sour g**** , the energy you put into hating is not a healthy mindset to have ..

son let me just say that is the realest sht you ever wrote...now take ur own advice.

it's amazing how clueless you are of urself. Princeton, harvard, and yale should dedicate a decade worth of study to you.

[CubanGuyNYC]

It's been a long string of bad decisions.

He was and still should be the man at 126, instead he's now just another guy bouncing around divisions too big for him. He's not active, in the wrong division, has a terrible promotional situation and is being forgotten for the most part.

I understand why he wanted out of the Top Rank and Oner situation and supported the decision, but he took the risk and it didn't work out.

Great post. Every word true.

In the end, it's a damn shame, 'cause Gamboa was one of the most electrifying athletes in the sport. Loved watching that guy fight. Now I speak of him in the past tense.

[New England]

gamboa was wasted by the amateurs. PED su****ions, and jumping ship to a nonexistent promotional company (50 cent,) to chase a pipe dream of getting a mayweather fight didn't help. 50 cent and mayweather don't even speak any longer



it's going to be next to impossible to turn a tiny 28 year old into a mainstream american star, especially when he speaks no english. now he's in his 30's. good luck....

to boot, he's always been a talented pro, not an elite one. he's never been able to put a solid, fight long professional performance together.


anybody who thought this guy was going to be an ATG was an idiot. he had the talent, but he couldn't have been moved more poorly. when you're that small you should be a professional by your 18th or 20th birthday. you're at your physical prime in your late teens and early 20's with a tiny body like that. small men peak early. you have a child's body. big men take time to fill out and learn to use their bodies.



take warning, young cubans. this is what you get when you squander your prime as an amateur, winning "medals" against kids. you get to the pro game and you're old, and likely in need of a complete overhaul of your style.



the only cubans i can ever see having a great measure of commercial success in boxing are HW. they peak late in life, and are entering a division that sucks so badly that they've got an easy road to the top.

gamboa should have already made his money. he would have knocked juanma lopez out in a vicious fight. both guys on the canvas. he was in his prime in the unpaid ranks, and fighting kids. he's a tiny guy at LW. he's slower than he used to be. he's not nearly as sharp. for every fight he's got a year of inactivity.

it's a damn shame, but we've seen his best.


and finally, it's even more of a shame to know gamboa is broke. he uses his twitter account to sell boxing gear. my spanish isn't great, but it's good enough to recognize tweets that are selling old boxing gear, and know how sad it is.


gamboa will be remembered as a would have, could have, type of fighter.

[bojangles1987]

Great post. Every word true.

In the end, it's a damn shame, 'cause Gamboa was one of the most electrifying athletes in the sport. Loved watching that guy fight. Now I speak of him in the past tense.

I was so sold on him going into the Rios fight. I thought he was going to win that fight and maybe get jumped again into a Pacquiao fight at 140 soon after. It really sucks to see where he is now.

[New England]

I was so sold on him going into the Rios fight. I thought he was going to win that fight and maybe get jumped again into a Pacquiao fight at 140 soon after. It really sucks to see where he is now.

rios would have beat the f#cking garbage out of gamboa.


gamboa might look spectacular in spots because of the difference in speed, but rios is insurmountably larger, has an iron jaw (one of the best in the sport,) and is as steady as a rock.

when gamboa's patented "round or two or three off" off comes about, rios would catch up to him and beat him to a f#Cking pulp. he'd literally be instructed to wait for the lulls in the action by garcia. that's the difference between a top pro and a top talent.

[Warrios]

rios would have beat the f#cking garbage out of gamboa.


gamboa might look spectacular in spots because of the difference in speed, but rios is insurmountably larger, has an iron jaw (one of the best in the sport,) and is as steady as a rock.

when gamboa's patented "round or two or three off" off comes about, rios would catch up to him and beat him to a f#Cking pulp. he'd literally be instructed to wait for the lulls in the action by garcia. that's the difference between a top pro and a top talent.

now this guy knows boxing

[sako5]

The only mistake Gamboa has made is to associate with Oner in the first place. This bum is an incompetent motherfucker.