Comments Thread For: Salas Aims To Take Gamboa Back To His Roots To Shock Chris Colbert

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Former world champion Yuriorkis Gamboa is looking to shine bright with his needed reunion with respected trainer Ismael Salas. Gamboa will face undefeated WBA interim-super featherweight world champion Chris Colbert (15-0, 6 KOs), another talented young boxer who is on the rise, in a Showtime televised main event on July 3rd.
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[-Kev-]

A boxer can’t go back to his roots at 40 years old. Especially with Gamboa’s style. He is in a catch 22 where even he makes it down to 130, he’d likely be drained. And then moving up to 135lbs, you have fighters there who are 155lbs on fight night. So he is too small for LW, too big for SFW.

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Gamboa is listed as 40 but is most likely 43-44. He is shot...he is not suddenly going to be 20 years old again.

[hitmanjosh]

If Chris use his speed and natural gifts Gamboa don’t stand a chance because he doesn’t move as quickly and his reaction time has faded. I can’t see Chris doing a bunch of damage but right now the age factor and instinct and reaction time are on two different levels.