thefanblog.blogspot.com - 5/18/2008
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For your Saturday night boxing pleasure, HBO brings you three fights on their series called Boxing After Dark. We'll dissect them as they occur. YURIORKIS GAMBOA VS. DARLING JIMENEZ, ALFREDO ANGULO VS. RICHARD GUTIERREZ AND JAMES KIRKLAND VS. EROMOSELE ALBERT are the three fights that we'll keep you up to date on.
Yuriorkis Gamboa Beats Darling Jimenez
sports.aol.com 5/18/2008 — Yuriorkis Gamboa, the boxer who won a 2004 Olympic gold medal for Cuba and is now a professional fighting out of Miami, headlined a major card for the first time tonight and put on a good show. Gamboa defeated Darling Jimenez by unanimous decision to run his record to 10-0, and he did so in exciting fashion, displaying sensational hand speed and excellent conditioning. But he also displayed ...
Gamboa faces toughest test, Mijares tops Munoz —
Bad Left Hook
Yuriorkis Gamboa faced the stiffest test of the night, surprising most everyone. After a first round TKO by James Kirkland over Eromosele Albert and a fifth round TKO of Richar Gutierrez by Alfredo Angulo, Gamboa took a hard-fought unanimous, ten-round decision over Darling Jimenez. We'll have much more on the fights, plus the other weekend bouts on Sunday night.
Other quick results: ...
Introducing Yuriorkis Gamboa [Yuriorkis Fever!] —
Deadspin
Tonight's tremendous card on HBO's Boxing After Dark ( keep reading, you'll like it! ) features quite possibly the most exciting young fighter in all of boxing. Yuriorkis Gamboa is a 24 year-old Cuban defector who is already 9-0 (8 KO's) since turning professional last April instead of attempting to defend his gold medal in Beijing. What has boxing lovers going nuts over the fighter isn't his ...
