Bob Arum on JuanMa Lopez vs Yuriorkis Gamboa: THE FANS CAN GO F$@% THEMSELVES

Wow.

 

YEy but what if JuanaMa were to lose to Caballero or someone else. I think id give a rejuvinated Marquez a shot against Lopez (think Vasquez is past it though).

Dont see anyone beating Gamboa at feather and Lopez is very good but i think hes beatable if matched tough.

 

from the view of a fight fan, it surely sucks. but from a view of a promoter, this could be a nice move. but there are certain risks unless they would just feed both with opponents that are not too risky. well luevano is somewhat a good test especially with juanma's first fight at 126. what's next, the winner of concepcion-santiago for either guy or other top 126 guys?

 

Id make John, and Caballero about even Money against Lopez.

 

Arum is going to keep Lopez fighting over-matched opponents, he will probably keep him on his PPV's since HBO isn't going to want to keep buying meaningless fights. Gamboa is the goods, he keeps getting better with experience and if he does get that shot against Lopez you better believe he's going to smash him to bits and pieces.

 

I know what people want, they want you to go **** yourself Bob!

 

Luevano is a good boxer but John is better and faster i agree that Lopez might not respect Johns power but John is slick too and he would be landing on him more than Luevano did and he has better defense. But id still make it 50-50

And if the judges are fair i can see Caballero possibly winning.

 

I was thinking about this point the other day too, makes sense actually, there is no way these two fighters fight each other this early in their career. Why the hell would a promoter stick two prospects like these against each other whil they're still relatively obscure to the public.

It would be like the RJJ vs Hopkins, which meant nothing at the time or now because the fighters were still pretty unknown to the public then.

There's a load of great match-ups to make in the featherweights right now and then these two will meet when they both hold 30 odd wins to their name.

 

+1:good

 

That's blunt as **** right there. Probably the right move, but still.

 

Last time I checked Juanma is a 2 division title holder and Gamboa is the current WBA champion, I have no doubt that Gamboa would take the fight in a second. I can't say the same about Juanma since he already ducked Caballero even after he was called a "Maciron" and Celestino said he would ***** slap him if he ever saw him.

 

Neither fighter is being fed bums so i am happy for them to be kept seperate in 2010.