Brandon Rios and Yuriorkis Gamboa to share April 14th card at the MGM Grand

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    According to Dan Rafael, former WBA lightweight champion Brandon Rios and former featherweight/super featherweight champion Yuriorkis Gamboa will be sharing the same card on April 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    They were both supposed to be on a March 3rd card but that’s been pushed ahead to April 14th. It doesn’t matter much to boxing fans because neither fighter is rumored to be facing anyone particularly interesting. There’s talk of Rios fighting lightweight contender John Molina and Gamboa possibly facing former WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez or Rocky Juarez.

    Neither guy would be an earth shattering opponent for Gamboa, and not the kind that would cause the boxing world to take notice or want to cancel appointments to see the fight. Gamboa’s promoter Bob Arum hasn’t done a whole heck of a lot with in terms of setting up interesting fights. Arum sat on a potentially interesting fight between Gamboa and Juan Manuel Lopez for two years, and the fight never happened because Lopez finally got beaten by Orlando Salido.

    Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2012/01...-april-14th-card-at-the-mgm-grand/#more-96894
     

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