A winner of 19 in a row, featherweight world champion Lee Selby (23-1, 8 KOs) will fight for the second time in the United States when he battles former world champion Jonathan Victor Barros (41-4-1, 22 KOs) live on Showtime Extreme Saturday, January 28 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena …
Read More »Boxing Result: Gamboa, Gomez, Oral, Bakhtov Win In Germany
There was a big fight card last night at Sporthalle in Hamburg, Germany with IBF featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa leading the way with a victory over previously undefeated Argentine hard man Jonathan Victor Barros. Early on, Gamboa looked to be having his way as he largely has in all of …
Read More »Boxing In Germany: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jonathan Victor Barros
One of the most exciting fighters in the sport today sees action again tonight as Yuriorkis Gamboa returns to Germany following an 11 bout schedule in America over the last three years. Gamboa, 17-0 (15), comes back as the reigning WBA featherweight champ and the 28 year old Cuban has …
Read More »Arena Boxing: Gamboa Ready To Shine In Return To Germany
Only three days to go until Arena’s first big show with major TV partner SAT.1. The first TV featured bout of the night will be the WBA featherweight championship between Cuban superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa and his unbeaten challenger Jonathan Victor Barros from Argentina . For Gamboa it will be a …
Read More »Arena Boxing: Gamboa Returns To Germany For WBA Title Defense
In February, 2007 Olympic gold medallist Yuriorkis Gamboa arrived in Hamburg for the first time after defecting from the Cuban national team along with team-mates Odlanier Solis and Yan Barthelemy. Three years and 17 pro-fights later, the WBA featherweight champion made his return to Germany yesterday to defend his world …
Read More »Boxing In Argentina: Narvaez Retains WBO Title, Passes Monzon’s Record
Last night in front of 5,000 fans at Nuevo Palacio Aurinegro in Puerto Madryn, South America’s top boxer was in fine form as WBO Flyweight Champion Omar Andres Narvaez stopped the challenge of top American Raytona Whitfield. It was a clash of two undefeated men with the taller Whitfield towering …
Read More »Saturday Night Boxing Results
All in all, it was a pretty good Saturday night and we start off south of the border with a big card in Queretaro, Mexico where at the Plaza de Toros Juriquilla, light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., 36-0-1 (29), continued his meteoric rise with a ninth round KO …
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