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well lopez looked pretty damn impressive himself, typical lopez fight - tons of power shots and eventually breaking down his opponent & getting the nice KO victory.
comparing the two though, gamboa is just so more flashy, more pleasing to watch. Cant wait for them to fight, I think gamboa can win but it will be tough
comparing the two though, gamboa is just so more flashy, more pleasing to watch. Cant wait for them to fight, I think gamboa can win but it will be tough
honestly I think vazquez & marquez are both past it and wouldn't survive against either one of them. They are fighting for the fourth time in june or july so they are out of the question for the time being. Celestino Caballero is the real challenge, imo. both gamboa & lopez are at 126 pounds. Celestino Caballero fights at 122 but is going to 126. so I think those are the 3 top guys. And Chris John as well but I don't think he's going to be on top much longer...
Celestino Caballero
Chris John
Gamboa
Lopez
Marquez/Vazquez
pretty damn good division.
Celestino Caballero
Chris John
Gamboa
Lopez
Marquez/Vazquez
pretty damn good division.
Both guys were impressive.
These two guys are the future right here. Really excited about both of them, and I think that a fight between the two is going to be a classic.
Lopez is more methodical with his approach, but has some really good pop and accuracy.
Gamboa is more explosive, and uses a lot of lateral movement. I really like how he goes downstairs to set up the shots up top.
Both guys are fun as hell to watch...and I can't wait to see them fight each other. Throw Caballero in the mix too, and you got a pretty bad ass little triangle of killers you can match up one another with.
These two guys are the future right here. Really excited about both of them, and I think that a fight between the two is going to be a classic.
Lopez is more methodical with his approach, but has some really good pop and accuracy.
Gamboa is more explosive, and uses a lot of lateral movement. I really like how he goes downstairs to set up the shots up top.
Both guys are fun as hell to watch...and I can't wait to see them fight each other. Throw Caballero in the mix too, and you got a pretty bad ass little triangle of killers you can match up one another with.
I don't want to get out of my mind excited over this win for Gamboa. Mtagwa was made for a guy like Gamboa. Gamboa has insane speed, heavy hands and good accuracy where Lopez is more like Mtagwa. He's extremely flat footed, he's a come forward pressure fights he's just more fluid with his punches. His style will always have trouble with guys like Mtagwa if he lets them hang around because he doesn't have fantastic head movement.
Gamboa is gonna eat Lopez alive. He's made to win that fight. Lopez isn't fast enough to keep up with him and his footwork isn't good enough to pin him.
EDIT: .. and Caballero SHOULD be in the mix when talking about these guys. There's a reason a unified champ is as less talked about and avoided as Caballero is. Caballero has to flat out harass people to try to get fights and he has TWO belts. He's not very popular, doesn't have the backing of a big promoter and is extremely good.
Gamboa is gonna eat Lopez alive. He's made to win that fight. Lopez isn't fast enough to keep up with him and his footwork isn't good enough to pin him.
EDIT: .. and Caballero SHOULD be in the mix when talking about these guys. There's a reason a unified champ is as less talked about and avoided as Caballero is. Caballero has to flat out harass people to try to get fights and he has TWO belts. He's not very popular, doesn't have the backing of a big promoter and is extremely good.
^^but it's hard not to be impressed with Gamboa's win, isn't it? He looked phenomenal against a tough, durable guy.
And I read today bob arum is planning on having GAMBOA fight Celestino Caballero next, not lopez. Lopez is going to get the Concepcion/Mario Santiago winner. So to me, that clearly says Bob Arum is keeping lopez away from Caballero & Gamboa for as long as possible...
And I read today bob arum is planning on having GAMBOA fight Celestino Caballero next, not lopez. Lopez is going to get the Concepcion/Mario Santiago winner. So to me, that clearly says Bob Arum is keeping lopez away from Caballero & Gamboa for as long as possible...
I've always been extremely impressed with Gamboa. When he first started boxing I said I'd thought he was a HOFer in the making but this fight was made for a guy as athletic as Gamboa. It's impressive that he didn't go ape shit when he got him hurt and that he was able to put him away so easily but it was gonna happen sooner or later.
Both Gamboa and Lopez looked good, but Gamboa looked real good. Did yall see this interview from the smart pompous jew...ahhhahaa. He says he wants these two to mop up the featherweight division then fight each other in 2011.
http://boxingtalk.com/pag/article.php?aid=19212
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: THE BOBFATHER
By G. Leon
GL: Congratulations on a great show on Saturday night. Can you give us some thoughts on the victors' [Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa's] performances?
Bob Arum: "We had two of our fighters perform unbelievably. Gamboa totally dazzled with his performance. He has all of the qualities to become a big superstar. I felt a little sorry for my other two guys, Lopez and Steven Luevano, who had to follow that performance by Gamboa, but they came through. Manuel, I thought, looked sensational knocking out Luevano. I'm really looking forward to both of these guys [Lopez, Gamboa] going through every featherweight in the world of any consequence, and then matching them against each other sometime in 2011."
GL: Based on the way the telecast was going, it seems like HBO is more interested in going with Gamboa-Lopez next. Is that what's going to happen?
The Bobfather: Yes, everybody would love for them to fight immediately, and yes, it would be a fairly good fight, and yes, it would be an interesting fight, but I am an old school promoter, and I believe that when these two guys fight it will be a huge fight. Each of them will recieve millions of dollars for participating in the fight. When you're old, you tend to slow up a little bit, but you have the advantage of experience. I remember when Ray Leonard and Ronald Hearns were beating everybody, and the drumbeats were rolling for Leonard and Hearns to fight each other. Emanuel Stewart was making all these noises, "Come on, tell me who's ready. Come on Ray let's fight him." Mike Trainer held the fight off for a year and a half, because he realized it was building interest, and it could be a monster fight once they fought. That's what in fact came to pass. That's what I'm going to try to do with these two guys. Put them against all of the tough featherweights, have them beat all of the tough featherweights, and then make a big event, maybe at the Meadowlands, in the spring of next year. Where I can put 30,000 people in the place, that's doing my job as a promoter of these two fighters. That's what, as a promoter, I have to do. It's not necessarily pleasing the sports writers, or pleasing HBO, or pleasing the fans, who want instant gratification, it's about positioning the fight so that it makes the most money for two wonderful young fighters, for when they finally fight each other.
GL: Where does the Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez fight stand for April 17th?
The Bobfather: I called Lou DiBella, we have the proposal, Lou is supposed to get back to me today. Hopefully he will accept it, he's getting, in my view, a terrific deal for [WBC 154 pound titlist] Martinez, who has the opportunity to fight for the middleweight championship. I believe that if it happens, it will happen on April 17th, at the Convention Hall in Atlantic City.
GL: As an old school promoter, if you were Lou DiBella, and you had another fighter going on Showtime on the same date, would you counter program with HBO?
The Bobfather: You have a fiduciary responsibility to Martinez, who has the opportunity to become a middleweight champion. You have to take into account Martinez's position, and his future. The idea that you're going against another network, in this day and age, is ridiculous. You can go against a PPV and hurt a PPV, but you can't go against another network and hurt the network, becuase everybody that I know would want to see both the tournament fight and the Pavlik-Martinez fight, and they have the ability to see both. In other words, they TiVo one, and they watch the other. They're able to have the wonderful opportunity of seeing both fights in one night. In the old days, yeah you counter programmed, you went up against one of the other networks, and it hurt their ratings. Now it doesn't even hurt their ratings. If you TiVo the fight, they get credit for it in their ratings, so the idea that you're hurting one network or the other is total baloney, that's archaic thinking.
GL: Is the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto fight a done deal for the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
The Bobfather: That's June 12th. They want to fight each other, as you saw on Saturday night, and I have to close the deal with both of them, when I get a few hours without chasing my tail.
GL: Does Cotto moving up in weight to 154 pounds mean he's done with 147?
The Bobfather: I have no idea, I really don't know. Apparantly he doesn't have trouble coming down to 147, he had to make 145 for the Pacquiao fight, so I think he's going to see how he does at 154. If he wins a championship, he'll defend it.
GL: What are early indications looking like on The Event?
The Bobfather: Right now, based on after the first day sales, more than 25,000 seats have been sold. That's well over 50% of the house. When we're able to announce the Margarito fight, and the other Hispanics on the card, I'm very optimistic that we're going to go clean.
GL: What are your expectation for this fight on PPV?
The Bobfather: I think very well. I think Pacquiao has really established himself as a marquee fighter. I think it's a very competitive fight, and with the help of the Margarito on the undercard, and Jose Luis Castillo, and John Duddy, I think we're gonna hit that million home mark. That's our goal, we certainly don't need that to come down, but I would think we're flirting with that million home mark.
GL: Closing thoughts.
The Bobfather: I want to thank HBO, for giving us the opportunity to present two such unbelievable fighters like Yuriokis Gamboa, and Juan Manuel Lopez. We have a whole parcel of good fights for the future, and we're going to keep the fans entertained.
http://boxingtalk.com/pag/article.php?aid=19212
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: THE BOBFATHER
By G. Leon
GL: Congratulations on a great show on Saturday night. Can you give us some thoughts on the victors' [Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa's] performances?
Bob Arum: "We had two of our fighters perform unbelievably. Gamboa totally dazzled with his performance. He has all of the qualities to become a big superstar. I felt a little sorry for my other two guys, Lopez and Steven Luevano, who had to follow that performance by Gamboa, but they came through. Manuel, I thought, looked sensational knocking out Luevano. I'm really looking forward to both of these guys [Lopez, Gamboa] going through every featherweight in the world of any consequence, and then matching them against each other sometime in 2011."
GL: Based on the way the telecast was going, it seems like HBO is more interested in going with Gamboa-Lopez next. Is that what's going to happen?
The Bobfather: Yes, everybody would love for them to fight immediately, and yes, it would be a fairly good fight, and yes, it would be an interesting fight, but I am an old school promoter, and I believe that when these two guys fight it will be a huge fight. Each of them will recieve millions of dollars for participating in the fight. When you're old, you tend to slow up a little bit, but you have the advantage of experience. I remember when Ray Leonard and Ronald Hearns were beating everybody, and the drumbeats were rolling for Leonard and Hearns to fight each other. Emanuel Stewart was making all these noises, "Come on, tell me who's ready. Come on Ray let's fight him." Mike Trainer held the fight off for a year and a half, because he realized it was building interest, and it could be a monster fight once they fought. That's what in fact came to pass. That's what I'm going to try to do with these two guys. Put them against all of the tough featherweights, have them beat all of the tough featherweights, and then make a big event, maybe at the Meadowlands, in the spring of next year. Where I can put 30,000 people in the place, that's doing my job as a promoter of these two fighters. That's what, as a promoter, I have to do. It's not necessarily pleasing the sports writers, or pleasing HBO, or pleasing the fans, who want instant gratification, it's about positioning the fight so that it makes the most money for two wonderful young fighters, for when they finally fight each other.
GL: Where does the Kelly Pavlik-Sergio Martinez fight stand for April 17th?
The Bobfather: I called Lou DiBella, we have the proposal, Lou is supposed to get back to me today. Hopefully he will accept it, he's getting, in my view, a terrific deal for [WBC 154 pound titlist] Martinez, who has the opportunity to fight for the middleweight championship. I believe that if it happens, it will happen on April 17th, at the Convention Hall in Atlantic City.
GL: As an old school promoter, if you were Lou DiBella, and you had another fighter going on Showtime on the same date, would you counter program with HBO?
The Bobfather: You have a fiduciary responsibility to Martinez, who has the opportunity to become a middleweight champion. You have to take into account Martinez's position, and his future. The idea that you're going against another network, in this day and age, is ridiculous. You can go against a PPV and hurt a PPV, but you can't go against another network and hurt the network, becuase everybody that I know would want to see both the tournament fight and the Pavlik-Martinez fight, and they have the ability to see both. In other words, they TiVo one, and they watch the other. They're able to have the wonderful opportunity of seeing both fights in one night. In the old days, yeah you counter programmed, you went up against one of the other networks, and it hurt their ratings. Now it doesn't even hurt their ratings. If you TiVo the fight, they get credit for it in their ratings, so the idea that you're hurting one network or the other is total baloney, that's archaic thinking.
GL: Is the Yuri Foreman-Miguel Cotto fight a done deal for the Puerto Rican Day Parade?
The Bobfather: That's June 12th. They want to fight each other, as you saw on Saturday night, and I have to close the deal with both of them, when I get a few hours without chasing my tail.
GL: Does Cotto moving up in weight to 154 pounds mean he's done with 147?
The Bobfather: I have no idea, I really don't know. Apparantly he doesn't have trouble coming down to 147, he had to make 145 for the Pacquiao fight, so I think he's going to see how he does at 154. If he wins a championship, he'll defend it.
GL: What are early indications looking like on The Event?
The Bobfather: Right now, based on after the first day sales, more than 25,000 seats have been sold. That's well over 50% of the house. When we're able to announce the Margarito fight, and the other Hispanics on the card, I'm very optimistic that we're going to go clean.
GL: What are your expectation for this fight on PPV?
The Bobfather: I think very well. I think Pacquiao has really established himself as a marquee fighter. I think it's a very competitive fight, and with the help of the Margarito on the undercard, and Jose Luis Castillo, and John Duddy, I think we're gonna hit that million home mark. That's our goal, we certainly don't need that to come down, but I would think we're flirting with that million home mark.
GL: Closing thoughts.
The Bobfather: I want to thank HBO, for giving us the opportunity to present two such unbelievable fighters like Yuriokis Gamboa, and Juan Manuel Lopez. We have a whole parcel of good fights for the future, and we're going to keep the fans entertained.