Record details

Yuriorkis GAMBOA

"El Ciclón de Guantánamo"

Lightweight

Male

(Yuriolkis Gamboa Toledano)
Cuba, based in USA, Miami, Florida
Born: December 23, 1981, Guantánamo, Cuba
Height: 5ft 5in, mt 1,64

(Brother of Yoelvis Gamboa)

as an amateur:

2000 Cuban amateur champion 48
Final: Wpts Yan Berthelemi
2000 Las Tunas, Cuba Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament silver medallist 48
Wstpd 4 Mohamed Ali Qamar (Ind), Wstpd 3 Suban Punnon (Tha)
Final: Lpts Maikro Romero (Cub) 4-14
2001 Cuban amateur Championships silver demallist 48
Final: Lpts Yan Barthelemi
2001 Holguin, Cuba, Giraldo Cordova Cardin Tournament
silver medallist 48 – Final: Lpts Yan Bartelemy (Cub) 8-8 / on countback
2001 Brisbane, Australia, 5 Goodwill Games bronze medallist 48
Lpts Sergey Kazakov (Rus) 7-19
Box-off: W.o. Marian Velicu (Rom)
2002 Cuban amateur Championships silver demallist 48
Final: Lpts Yan Barthelemi
2002 Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Giraldo Cordova Cardin tournament
silver medallist 51 – Final: Lpts Yankel Leon (Cub) 12-13
2002 Havana, Cuban National Olimpics gold medallist 51
Final: Wpts Yankiel Leon (Cub) 27-7
2003 Cuban amateur champion 51
2003 Santiago de Cuba, Giraldo Cordova Cardin tournament gold medal 51
Final: Wpts Yurian Fabregas (Cub) 26-19
2003, Bangkok, Thailand, 12th World Senior Championships 51
Wstpd 3 Bogdan Dobrescu (Rom), Wpts Sung Woon Lee (Kor) 40-20
Lpts Somjit Jongjohor (Tha) 22-23
2003 Santo Domingo Panamerican Games gold medallist 51
Wpts Carlos Valcarcel (Pur) 26-13, Wstpd 2 German Torres (Ecu)
Wpts Raul Hilares (Mex) 31-18, Final: Wpts Juan Carlos Payano (Dom) 28-22
2004 Cuban amateur champion 51
2004 Guantanamo, Cuban National Olympics gold medallist 51
Final: Wpts Yoandry Salina (Cub) 22-7
2004 Usti, Czech Republic, Grand Prix bronze medallist 51
2004 Athens Olympic Games gold medallist 51
Wpts Igori Samoilenco (Mld) 46-33, Wpts Somjit Jongjohr (Tha) 26-21
Wpts Georgy Balahshin (Rus) 26-18, Wpts Rustammhodza Rahimov (Ger) 20-11
Final: Wpts Jerome Thomas (Fra) 38-23
2005 Cienfuegos, Cuba, Giraldo Cordova Cardin Memorial silver medallist 57
Wpts Vladimir Diaz (Cub) 14-10, Wab 4 Diwakar Prasad (Ind)
Wpts Osandro Bolivar (Ven) 22-9, Final: Lpts Luis Franco (Cub) 13-24
2005 Moscow, Russia, 10th AIBA World Cup silver medallist 57
Wstpd 2 Thongtheang Khlongchan (Tha), Wstpd 3 Viorel Simion (Rom)
Wpts Galib Jafarov (Kaz) 48-35, Final: Lpts Alexey Tishchenko (Rus) 27-45
2005 Caracas, Venezuela, "Batalla de Carababo"
multi-nations tournament gold medallist 57
Wpts Cesar Villarraga (Col) 10-4, Wpts Rafael Gonzalez (Ven-C) 21-9
Final : Wpts Lisandro Bolivar (Ven-A) 20-15
2005 Miyanyang City, Cina, 13th World Senior Champs bronze medallist 57
Wstpd Homayoun (Afg), Wstpd Chun An Chung (Tpe), Wstpd Kim
Semis: Lstpd 2 Alexey Sdaidulin (Bul) injury
2006 Cuban amateur champion 57
2006 Havana, Cuba, Cuban Olympiad gold medallist 57
Wpts Lisandro Bolivar (Ven) 21-9, Wstpd 2 Alex Oliveira, (Bra)
Wpts Li Yang (Chn) 19-8, Final: Wpts Luis Franco (Cub) 22-14
2206 Cartagena, Colombia, 20th Central American
and Caribbean Games bronze medallist 57
Wstpd 1 Daulis Prescott (Col), Semis: Lpts Carlos Velasquez (Pur) 7-10
2006 Baku, Azerbaijan, 11th World Cup Champs gold medallist 57
Wpts Maksat Ospanov (Kaz) 37-13, Wstpd 1 Luis del Valle (USA)
Wstpd 2 Shahlar Nagiyev (Aze), Final: Wab 3 Albert Selimov (Rus)

No amateur results

Professional record


2007
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Apr. 26	Alexan Manvelyan	Hamburg, Germany	W 4
+ June 16	Araik Sachbazjan	Ankara, Turkey	TKO 4
+ July 6	Joel Mayo	Hamburg, Germany	TKO 2
+ Sept. 2	Thomas Hengstberger	Berlin, Germany	TKO 1
+ Sept. 21	Nestor Paniagua	Lübeck, Germany	KO 1
+ Oct. 19	Samuel Kebede	Berlin, Germany	TKO 2
+ Oct. 30	Adailton De Jesus	Hollywood, Florida	TKO 6

2008
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 5	Gilberto Luque	Atlantic City, New Jersey	TKO 1
+ Feb. 22	Johnnie Edwards	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	TKO 1
(Won vacant NABF Super-Featherweight Title)
+ May 17	Darling Jimenez	Primm, Nevada	W 10
(Won vacant WBC Int’l Super-Featherweight Title)
+ July 18	Al Seeger	Primm, Nevada	TKO 1
(Won vacant NABO Featherweight Title)
+ Oct. 4	Marcos Ramirez	Temecula, California	KO 2

2009
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 9	Roger Gonzalez	Primm, Nevada	TKO 10
(Retained NABO Featherweight Title)
+ Feb. 20	Walter Estrada	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	KO 1
+ Apr. 17	Jose Rojas	Primm, Nevada	TKO 10
(Won vacant WBA interim Featherweight Title)
+ Oct. 10	Whyber Garcia	New York City, New York	TKO 4
(Retained WBA Featherweight Title)

2010
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Jan. 23	Rogers Mtagwa	New York City, New York	KO 2 (2:35)
(Retained WBA Featherweight Title)
+ Mar. 27	Jonathan Barros	Hamburg, Germany	W 12 UD
(Retained WBA Featherweight Title)
+ Sept. 11	Orlando Salido	Las Vegas, Nevada	W 12 UD
(Retained WBA and won vacant IBF Featherweight Titles)

2011
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Mar. 26	Jorge Solis	Atlantic City, New Jersey	TKO 4 (1:31)
(Retained WBA Super Champion Featherweight Title)
+ Sept. 10	Daniel Ponce De Leon	Atlantic City, New Jersey	TW 8 (1:24)

2012
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Dec. 8	Michael Farenas	Las Vegas, Nevada	W 12 UD
(Won vacant WBA interim Super-Featherweight Title)

2013
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ June 8	Darley Perez	Montreal, Canada	W 12 UD
(Won vacant interim WBA Lightweight Title)

2014
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
- June 28	Terence Crawford	Omaha, Nebraska	TKO by 9 (2:53)
(For WBO Lightweight Title)

2015
Date	Opponent	Place	Result
+ Dec. 19	Hylon Williams Jr	Verona, New York	W 10