here is what i found guys Top Rank's Bob Arum, Todd duBoef and Carl Moretti were in New York on Friday and met with HBO executives Ross Greenburg and Kery Davis. One of the things to come out of the meeting was the promise that welterweight Joshua Clottey would get a spot on the televised undercard when the Kelly Pavlik-Paul Williams fight is rescheduled for Dec. 5. That's a makeup call from HBO, which promised to televise Shane Mosley against Clottey on Dec. 26 and then changed its mind. They also talked about a possible Jan. 23 "Boxing After Dark" doubleheader from Puerto Rico, which would be headlined by Puerto Rican junior featherweight titleholder Juan Manuel Lopez in the first bout of a two-fight deal with the network. They talked about a possible match with unified titlist Celestino Caballero, who has relentlessly called out Lopez for the past few months. Top Rank said it's willing to make the match, although from what Caballero promoter Leon Margules told me, he has yet to be contacted by Top Rank. The other fight discussed for the card was a featherweight unification bout between Yuriorkis Gamboa and Steven Luevano. The idea would be for Lopez to face the winner of Gamboa-Luevano in an HBO main event in June on the eve of the annual Puerto Rican parade at Madison Square Garden in New York. Lopez and Gamboa, of course, first have to win their fights on Oct. 10 at the MSG Theater.
It would be an ideal fight for Gamboa. Luevano is not much of a puncher, not great physically. Gamboa is far more explosive and talented in that sense. Luevano is sneaky though, he can throw in a sneaky cross and drop Gamboa. Most of the time he just jabs with nothing on it as you saw in his connect rate which was pitiful in his last fight.
Sounds excellent. I guess we'll just have to wait for the Latin Fury outcome then see if these fights happen.
WOW, great match-up for both. Luevano would learn to deal with that type of talent. Gamboa would learn to deal with a precision slick fighter. I wanna c how they cope with eachother's stylez. Hopefully Lopez and Caballero meet! If JuanMa wins, WOW! Caballero is a monster!
Bad for Gamboa. I see a fighter like Luevano giving Gamboa alot of problems. This could possibly ruin the Gamboa-JML fight.
is really up to top rank first though isnt it, i bet you he does whatever gets him the most money and i bet you that means a gamboa hbo fight
my guess is that luevano/gamboa fight would be a close tight one. i would have to give the power edge to gamboa but luevano could give gamboa some problems with his boxing style. luevano/concepcion II would end the same thing with luevano schooling concepcion again. gamboa/concepcion is a bad matchup for concepcion. gamboa would easily outbox concepcion and either KO him or win by UD.
