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

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. 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 Pacquiao

Manny 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 Solis
  Jorge Solís
  Jorge 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 Garcia
  Miguel Angel Garcia
  Miguel 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 Remillard
  Matt Remillard
  Matthew 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...
  
  

Garcia defeats Remillard via RTD at 3:00 of round 10.

Untelevised

• Super Bantamweight bout:   Jorge Diaz
  Jorge Diaz
  Jorge 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 Kennedy
  Teon Kennedy
  Teon 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 Zbikowski
  Tom Zbikowski
  Thomas 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

Zbikowski defeats Grummet via unanimous decision.

• Featherweight bout:   Camilo Perez
  Camilo 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 Williams
  Desi Williams
  Desi 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....
  
  

Perez defeats Williams via TKO of round 1.

• Middleweight bout:   Rashad Brown vs.   Darryl Parker

• Bantamweight bout:   Miguel Cartagena vs.   Omar Gonzalez
  Omar Gonzalez
  Omar 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:...
  
  

Cartagena defeats Gonzalez via unanimous decision.

External Links

• HBO