Ryan Garcia vs Yuri Gamboa possiby next....

Castaellanos may be a "very high level journeyman", but "journeyman" is the important word there. If they had fought two years earlier, Gamboa dusts him off in six or seven rounds. He is SFWT with 13 losses. It's hard to tell with Garcia's level of competition, where he is, but he's is better than Gamboa.

 

Okay, and who exactly has Kingry fought thus far that is better than a journeyman?

 

Who?

 

The Ryan Garcia hype has been real lately. I've only seen a couple of his fights. It's hard to say how good he is. He's doing what he has to. Props to him for wanting to step up. Though it could backfire badly with someone like Tank. He should beat Gamboa though. Gamboa is shot to pieces.

 

Sorry, whom.

 

Oh, No one. But he's getting better, his opponent is getting worse. That's the point.

Garcia is much taller, younger and faster, and Gamboa was never a technican, he wont be able to frustrate a young guy like Ishe Smith or Montel Griffin or Oktay Urkal. In his prime he was just a really fast, powerful guy.

 

I'm honestly not sure Gervonta Davis (who is himself crazy hyped, although he definitely has done more to back it up than Garcia so far) is more of a step up than Yuriorkis Gamboa (who seems to be getting sold quite short lately).

 

Disagree. I think he looks fast against the slowpokes they've been feeding him.

Gamboa didn't lose to Castellanos or get dropped by Sosa because his speed has denigrated to a point where he's as slow as them. He struggled because they're bigger men, and because styles make fights, and because timing & power can trump speed. Garcia hasn't proven capable of applying the same kind of rough & tumble pressure that Castellanos and Sosa can. He does have faster than average hands for super feather, but I'm not sold on him being the new Gary Russell (let alone Meldrick Taylor) - I'm just not that blown away by his speed.

 

I was on the Tank hype train before Pedraza, but he has been looking tubby and mediocre lately. That being said, I do think Gamboa is an absolute shell of himself. I think Garcia would stop him, but wouldn't be surprised if Gamboa knocks him the **** out either. I think it's the worth the risk for Garica though.

 

Jose Pedraza would disagree.

Remeber, he as actually beaten good fighters, and was a real prospect before the Davis fight.

 

Garcia is really a JRWLT. he's 5'10 and probably 150 lbs. in camp. Teenagers have no problem cutting weight. He's really big for the weight class, as is Davis.

 

Sure, the Sniper beat a handful of pretty good fighters. The best of which probably was...Smith? A win that was matched in almost exact measure by Jason Sosa? (both dropped Smith once, same points spread array on the official cards..)

So we're back to square one, then. Davis' best win is a guy that dropped and outpointed Smith. Gamboa's best win in the last couple of years is a guy that beat Smith just as handily.

Pedraza's next best win? Farenas? Yeah, Gamboa also beat him..

 

I agree, in an earlier post I said he was probably a natural 140lber (and GBP has talked about him scooping up belts all the way to welter; that sounds pretty ambitious) but he's raw. Gamboa would be a huge leap up in class from what he's feasting on nowadays. Size doesn't mean a thing if you can't impose yourself, and Gamboa has plenty of experience surviving battles with relative giants (and, just flat out more experience period, especially factoring in the amateurs, he's a chess master whereas Garcia barely knows checkers at this point)

 

Yep. Spadafora touched up Mayweather in sparring. Don't mean ****.