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Yuriorkis Gamboa Seeks Equal Billing to Juan Manuel Lopez

Before he ever enters the ring against WBO featherweight (126 pounds) champion Juan Manuel Lopez of Puerto Rico, in a highly-anticipated mega-bout, Cuban-born WBA titlist Yuriorkis Gamboa wants to up the ante. That's because Gamboa (pictured, standing at right) knows that by attaining similar drawing power as the man they...

Lopez, Gamboa, Vazquez Highlight Saturday Night Fights

On Saturday night, three fights of interest will transpire in the superbantamweight and featherweight divisions.Puerto Rico's WBO superbantamweight (122-pounds) champion, Juan Manuel Lopez (pictured left) and WBA featherweight (126) king Yuriorkis Gamboa (middle) will be involved in two of them at the WaMu Theatre in New...

Yuriorkis Gamboa to Defend WBA Crown, Aims for 'Bigger Fights'

Cuban-born featherweight Yuriorkis Gamboa (15-0, 13 knockouts) will go after his sixth straight knockout when he defends his WBA title against Panama's Whyber Garcia (22-6, 15 KOs) on Oct. 10 at New York's Madison Square Garden.The clash of 126-pounders will take place on the undercard of a main event featuring another...

Boxing's Real Champions

Despite big nights for the sport like we had on Saturday night, we're constantly hearing that boxing is a dying sport. Two of the biggest reasons for that are that no one can keep the weight classes straight and no one can keep the champions straight.Ring Magazine deserves great credit for attempting to change that by...

Undercards Key to Boxing's Future

By ramping up their promotional efforts for the Sept. 19 Floyd Mayweather vs. Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view fight, some might say that HBO and Golden Boy Promotions are going old school. The fight will be shown at 170 movie theaters across the country and available in over 350,000 hotel rooms. Couple that with what...

ChrisJohn News From the Web

05/05/12 What you might have missed Source: The Courier-Mail MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner won his 35th career pole position at the Portugal Grand Prix on a day marred by Colin Edwards breaking his collarbone.
05/05/12 Boxing: Daud Yordan wins IBO World Featherweight title Source: Channel NewsAsia The Dragon Fire Championship Boxing event is underway at Marina Bay Sands, with two championship titles on the line.
05/04/12 /cache/images_pic2012_05/news4_6-600x450.jpg Source: Business Recorder - Pakistan Japanese boxer Shoji Kimura (L) and Indonesian boxer Chris John (R) strike a pose at the weigh-in ceremony for the world featherweight division fight at Singapore's Marina Bay Sands casino complex on May 4, 2012, ahead of the Dragon Fire Championship Boxing Event on May 5, 2012.
05/03/12 AP Weekly Sports Calendar Source: eTaiwanNews.com These are among the top sports events of the week.
05/03/12 Asia shows hunger for sports entertainment; tickets to... Source: The Manila Times The first signs of Asia's hunger for sports entertainment have been seen this early as tickets to the 4,000 seat-capacity Marina Bay Sands Resort Theater which hosts a double world boxing championships on Saturday, May 5, have totally been cleaned up.

Background on ChrisJohn

Yohannes Christian John (born September 14, 1979 in Banjarnegara, Central Java, Indonesia) is an Indonesian professional boxer, and the current WBA (Super) featherweight champion.

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