Perhaps the next legitimate p4p heir... Yuriorkis Gamboa

[Taeth]

Your words not mine - i quote :
He COULD be an all time great with his talent.
IF his CHIN has the capability.
So as i stated there are doubts about him as hes not proven.
And i ment he is a novice PRO fighter as everyone else on here seemed to know wot i ment. Of course he IS A NOVICE PRO , yes he has bags of talent , but that isnt always enough to make you a great pro champ , ie . Howard Davis for instance most outstanding boxer of the 1976 olyimpic games and didnt cut it as a pro.

Sorry, but I agree to disagree Yuriorkis' style fits the pro style so well that he is in another league. Howard Davis was great at the amateurs because he was fast, patient, and smart, but he didn't have the right mentality to be a pro were as many of these cubans do... they are tough men who literally fight for their lives.

[Mikkel_K]

Sorry, but I agree to disagree Yuriorkis' style fits the pro style so well that he is in another league. Howard Davis was great at the amateurs because he was fast, patient, and smart, but he didn't have the right mentality to be a pro were as many of these cubans do... they are tough men who literally fight for their lives.

I don't disagree on Gamboa - I have posted numerous times on this board about him, and he is obviously something special. However, I am not so sure whether your remark actually applies to Cubans in general. These are great, great fighters with a remarkable training morale, but once they've defected, living as pro's in settings where they quite litereally does not have to 'fight for their lives _anymore_', well, some of them do just not seem cut for this experience. Prime examples of thus lack of self-discipline are Jorge Luis Gonzalez and to a certain point Juan Carlos Gomez. Odlanier Solis seem to have some weight issues as well, but obviously the jury is still out on him.