Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jorge Solis
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Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jorge Solis is a 126-pound world title
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
title fight live on HBO's Boxing After Dark
Boxing After Dark
Boxing After Dark is an HBO boxing program, premiering in April 1996, that usually shows fights between well-known contenders, but usually not "championship" or "title" fights. Unlike its sister program, HBO World Championship Boxing, BAD features fighters who are usually moving up from ESPN's...
. In a featherweight double-header.
The Fight
Gamboa stopped Solis in the fourth round Saturday night to defend his Featherweight title. Gamboa delivered a sensational performance knocking down Solis five times, twice in the fourth before a sellout crowd of 2,913 at Boardwalk Hall's Adrian Phillips Ballroom. The Mexican was overwhelmed by a combination of quickness (hands and feet) and punching power that rivals another of Solis’ elite opponents, Manny PacquiaoManny Pacquiao
Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
, who had some trouble with Solis before stopping him in eight rounds in a junior lightweight bout in 2007.
Solis, from Guadalajara hit the canvas early in the fourth from a straight right. He got up, but Gamboa pinned him in a corner and pummeled him with punches until referee David Fields stepped in to halt the bout at 1:31 of the round.
Televised
- Featherweight Unified Championship bout: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs. Jorge SolisJorge SolísJorge Iván Solís Pérez , is a Mexican professional boxer. He is a former holder of various minor and regional titles including, the Jalisco State Featherweight title, WBC Latin America title, Mexican Super Bantamweight and Featherweight divisions and WBA Fedecentro titles...
- Gamboa defeats Solis via TKO at 1:31 of round 4.
- Featherweight bout: Miguel Angel GarciaMiguel Angel GarciaMiguel Ángel García Cortez is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division. García's the current USBA, WBO NABO, and NABF Featherweight champion. Miguel Ángel is trained by his father Eduardo Garcia and former World Champion, his brother Roberto García.-Early life:García is...
vs. Matt RemillardMatt RemillardMatthew Patrick Remillard was an undefeated boxer in the Featherweight division until he lost to Miguel Angel Garica by TKO in the ending of 10th round stoppage on March 26 in Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 2011...
- Featherweight bout: Miguel Angel Garcia
- Garcia defeats Remillard via RTD at 3:00 of round 10.
Untelevised
- Super Bantamweight bout: Jorge DiazJorge DiazJorge Diaz is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent in 1996. He played college football at Texas A&M-Kingsville.Diaz also played for the Dallas Cowboys....
vs. Teon KennedyTeon KennedyTeon Kennedy is the current North American and United States Boxing Association dual Super Bantamweight champion...
- Kennedy defeats Diaz via unanimous decision.
- Super Welterweight bout: Glen Tapia vs. Eberto Medina
- Tapia defeats Medina via unanimous decision.
- Heavyweight bout: Tom ZbikowskiTom ZbikowskiThomas Michael Zbikowski is an American football safety for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League, and an occasional professional boxer. He was drafted by the Ravens in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft...
vs. Caleb Grummet
- Heavyweight bout: Tom Zbikowski
- Zbikowski defeats Grummet via unanimous decision.
- Featherweight bout: Camilo PerezCamilo Pérez (boxer)Camilo Pérez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. As an amateur, he represented Puerto Rico in several international competitions, winning the bantamweight national title, 2010 Pan American Elite Championships and 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games.-Amateur career:On June 10, 2010, Pérez...
vs. Desi WilliamsDesi WilliamsDesi Williams is a rugby league player born in London, England. He started his career at London Skolars before being signed by Wigan Warriors and playing in the successful Youth Academy at Wigan in which he was a regular player, normally starting on the Wing....
- Featherweight bout: Camilo Perez
- Perez defeats Williams via TKO of round 1.
- Middleweight bout: Rashad Brown vs. Darryl Parker
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- Bantamweight bout: Miguel Cartagena vs. Omar GonzalezOmar GonzalezOmar Gonzalez is an American soccer player. He played youth soccer for the Dallas Texans Soccer Club. He currently plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer.-College:...
- Bantamweight bout: Miguel Cartagena vs. Omar Gonzalez
- Cartagena defeats Gonzalez via unanimous decision.