Yuriorkis Gamboa

Yuriorkis Gamboa
Yuriorkis Gamboa (2011)
Data
Birth Name	Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano
Fight name	El Ciclón
Weight class	Featherweight
nationality	Cuban
birthday	December 23, 1981
place of birth	Guantánamo
style	Left delivery
size	1.68 m
Range	165 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	30th
Victories	28
Knockout victories	17th
Defeats	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano (born December 23, 1981 in Guantánamo , Cuba ) is a Cuban professional boxer and former IBF and WBA featherweight champion.

amateur

In 2003 Yuriorkis Gamboa won the Pan American Games , at the Amateur World Cup in Bangkok (Thailand) he lost to the local hero and eventual winner Somjit Jongjohor just in the quarterfinals.

In 2004, Gamboa was at the Olympic Games in Athens Olympic champion flyweight. He beat the Moldovan Igori Samoilenco, took revenge on the Thai world champion Jongjohor, defeated the Russian Georgi Balakschin , the Rustam Rachimow , who started for Germany, and in the final, vice world champion Jérôme Thomas from France. In the same year he also won the chemistry cup in Halle . According to his own admission, his economic situation was so tense that he even sold his gold medal to host a birthday party for his two-year-old daughter.

At the Amateur World Championships in 2005 in Mianyang , he reached a third place in featherweight. He was defeated there in the semifinals against Alexei Schaidulin, who played for Bulgaria, because he was in the lead on points at the time the fight was stopped and was taken out of the fight due to a laceration.

Amateur successes

• 2000: Cuban light flyweight champion
• 2003: Cuban flyweight champion
• 2003 1st place American Flyweight Games
• 2004: Cuban flyweight champion
• 2004: Olympic flyweight champion
• 2005: 3rd place world championship in featherweight
• 2006: Cuban featherweight champion

Professional career

At the turn of the year 2006/2007, Yuriorkis Gamboa and his colleagues Odlanier Solís and Yan Barthelemí left the Cuban team at a training camp in Venezuela and signed a professional contract with the Hamburg boxing stable Arena Box-Promotion . In April 2007 he made his successful professional debut in Hamburg and convinced with good boxing technique and quick reflexes. He fought his first professional fights in Germany before moving to Florida , a stronghold of Cubans in exile, and has since boxed mainly in the USA.

In his 15 professional bouts and less than two years after his professional debut, Gamboa won the WBA's interim world championship in featherweight. He defeated the 37-year-old Venezuelan José Rojas with a technical knockout in the tenth round.

On October 10, 2009 he defeated Whyber Garcia by technical knockout in the 4th round and became the official WBA world champion. On September 11, 2010, he won by unanimous points victory against Orlando Salido , in addition, the IBF world title. As a result, his WBA title was upgraded to the super world title.

On March 26, 2011, the IBF World Championship title was withdrawn again because he did not appear for the second weigh-in when he defended his title against Jorge Solís and he was accused of exceeding the weight limit. On June 11, 2011, the WBA SuperWM belt was withdrawn from him because he no longer met the WBA Association's requirements for holding the Super World Championship title due to the loss of the IBF title.

After a break of almost six months, he won on September 10, 2011 in Atlantic City against former world champion Daniel Ponce de León (41-3). From the very first round, the Cuban determined the fighting and hit Ponce de Leon at will. In the eighth round, the two boxers hit their heads together, with the result that the Mexican had a severely bleeding laceration over the left eye, which led to the fight being stopped after 1:24 in the eighth round. After evaluating the scorecards, Gamboa was the clear winner of the fight. That same year, in December, he beat the Philippines to Michael Farenas.

In June 2013 he won unanimously against Darley's Pérez (28-0). At the end of June 2014 he lost to Terence Crawford (23-0) by knockout .

Web links

• Official website
• Amateur balance sheet ( Memento from October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Yuriorkis Gamboa in the BoxRec database

predecessor	Office	successor
Orlando Salido	Featherweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) September 11, 2010 - March 26, 2011	-

predecessor	Office	successor
Chris John	Featherweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) April 17, 2009 - September 11, 2010	Jonathan Victor Barros

predecessor	Office	successor
Chris John	Featherweight Boxing Super Champion ( WBA ) September 11, 2010 - June 11, 2011	Chris John