Yuriorkis Gamboa terrible performance

An element of truth to some of the points but you've got to look at the context to present a more balanced view. The guy has been out of the ring far, far too long. That hurts anybody.

Also, Farenas was a good opponent. Some early career losses but never been stopped, can punch and clearly can take a punch. The guy has a lot of cuts blighting his record too so I think some of the perhaps justified criticism (Gamboa fought in spurts far too much) should be tempered with some credit for Farenas.

This was a tough fight after over a year out of the ring which is unbelievably bad for a guy like Gamboa who is in his 30's now and is not going to be a late developer.

 

HE got dropped by a pretty big punch but came back and looked fine. I don't see his chin being that bad.

 

His chin is not that great, too many occasions to write off now. I don't think hes ever been massively hurt, but knocked over and more importantly stunned a few too many times for comfort. It does get exaggerated though. I think he just has an average to decent sort of chin but a massively aggressive style that leaves it exposed. People used to question Calzaghe's chin at times but eventually realized it was pretty damn good, when you walk into shots and fight very exposed you're going to take punches less aggressive guys don't tend to.

I just don't think he worked hard enough last night, he allowed Farenas to get a lot of confidence. Looked like he was worried about the distance after such a time out, and when that's on your mind its going to cut your work rate in two.

Not a memorable performance, but a very good fight and he really needs a big, big fight now.

 

What Arum tried to do to Gamboa with the Rios fight is some real shady ****. Still makes me shake my head when I think about it.

Anyone who calls that a duck wants their head checking.

 

I agree, but we could well be having this discussion about so many fighters. It's a problem with the current system. Problem is none of the other ways are without fault.

Gamboa should probably be at 135, 18lbs ought to be telling them something.

 

Call me crazy but Rios fight ain't as simple as Rios can punch and is bigger than Gamboa = Rios wins. Rios can look atrocious when shown some movement and angles. Plus he's not that devastating a puncher, he's grinded nearly all his stoppages out. He'd be a lot, and a I mean a lot slower than anything Gamboa is used to seeing.

People had these theories when Manny Pac moved up, and I'm not for one second saying Gamboa is as good, or posessing the same durability. But speed, movement and explosive punching count for a lot when moving up.

 

Gamboa, like Andre Berto, was trying to be too much like Mayweather, trying to be cute and methodical instead of doing what he does best, swarming opponents with punches in bunches

 

What was he trying to do? AFAIK it was Team Gamboa that called out Rios. Are you saying the fight was forced on them?

 

What was it Arum did, Shaunster?

 

Gamboa is done.

 

Why do you think so Flea?

 

Gamboa looked poor

And this is coming from a guy who ranks him highly and has placed a lot of faith in him from day 1, the inactivity has stopped him in his tracks, absolutely no doubt about it, Gamboa is a fighter who simply cannot afford to be inactive, it really helps him in no way shape or form.

From the weekends outing people will now be questioning him! if his engine and cardio fails him against Rios, he'll never fight again because Rios will hammer him, but I do feel Rios can and will only beat Gamboa if his cardio fails him, and i mean this in terms of "keeping Rios off" he will need to be active in doing so, very active, way more active than he was on Saturday against a much bigger and better fighter.

Arum should make Rios Gamboa now before risking losing another decent fight as people seem to have forgotten Rios was out boxed by Abril and was gifted a terrible decision!