In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gamboa and the second or maternal family name is Toledano.
Yuriorkis Gamboa
Gamboa (center) in 2011
Born
Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano
(1981-12-23) 23 December 1981 (age 42)
Guantánamo, Cuba
Nationality
Cuban
Other names
El Ciclon de Guantánamo ("The Cyclone from Guantánamo")
Statistics
Weight(s)
Featherweight
Super featherweight
Lightweight
Height
5 ft 5+1⁄2 in (166 cm)
Reach
65 in (165 cm)
Stance
Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights
35
Wins
30
Wins by KO
18
Losses
5
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing Cuba
Olympic Games
2004 Athens
Flyweight
World Championships
2005 Mianyang
Featherweight
World Cup
2005 Moscow
Featherweight
2006 Baku
Featherweight
Pan American Games
2003 Santo Domingo
Flyweight
Central American and Caribbean Games
2006 Cartagena
Featherweight
Goodwill Games
2001 Brisbane
Light flyweight
Yuriorkis Gamboa Toledano (born 23 December 1981) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBA (Regular) and IBF titles between 2009 and 2011, as well as the WBA interim championship in both the super featherweight and lightweight divisions. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the flyweight division at the 2004 Olympics, and a bronze in the featherweight division at the 2005 World Championships.
YuriorkisGamboa Toledano (born 23 December 1981) is a Cuban professional boxer. He is a former unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBA...
lightweight title against the former unified featherweight titlist YuriorkisGamboa, on November 7, 2020. The bout was held at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood...
former unified featherweight world champion YuriorkisGamboa by twelfth-round technical knockout. Gamboa was ranked #2 by the WBA at lightweight at the...
Olympic gold medalist and former unified featherweight titleholder YuriorkisGamboa, who was a slight favourite going into the fight. This was only the...
April 2022, when he knocked down former unified featherweight champion YuriorkisGamboa multiple times en route to a fifth-round technical knockout victory...
of 30. On September 11, 2010, he faced WBA featherweight champion YuriorkisGamboa at the Palms Casino Resort in Paradise, Nevada, in a unification bout...
Orlando Salido, Chris John, Juan Manuel López, Celestino Caballero, YuriorkisGamboa, Elio Rojas, Israel Vazquez, Cristobal Cruz, Rafael Márquez, Rocky...
undercard of the WBC lightweight title fight between Devin Haney and YuriorkisGamboa. In his debut as a Matchroom Boxing fighter. Zhang dropped and stopped...
2004 Olympics, including Amir Khan, Andre Ward, Gennady Golovkin, YuriorkisGamboa, and Guillermo Rigondeaux, later went on to become world champions...
Tony Galento Andras Galfi Víctor Galíndez Esteban Gallard Julio GamboaYuriorkisGamboa Scott Gammer Joe Gans Víctor Galíndez Alejandro García Alex Garcia...
professional, joining fellow 2004 Cuban Olympians Odlanier Solis, YuriorkisGamboa and Yan Bartelemí, who defected earlier in 2007. As with the other...
boxer, Jackson signed gold medalist and former featherweight champion YuriorkisGamboa and middleweight Olympic medalist Andre Dirrell. On July 29, 2012,...
2021. Reeno, Rick (June 26, 2009). "Chris John To Become Super Champ, Gamboa Elevated". Boxingscene. Archived from the original on September 19, 2021...
WBA Lightweight title. After a proposed bout with Cuban superstar YuriorkisGamboa fell through, Brandon Rios agreed to face off with Richar Abril on...
Achievements Vacant Title last held by YuriorkisGamboa WBA featherweight champion Interim title December 8, 2012 - April 18, 2013 Stripped Vacant Title...
Mexican boxer Robinson Castellanos, who had a recent victory over YuriorkisGamboa and had previously challenged for the WBA (Super) and interim WBC titles...
At the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, he lost to Cuba's YuriorkisGamboa in the Flyweight final, winning the silver medal. He won the gold medal...
undercard of the WBA lightweight title fight between Gervonta Davis and YuriorkisGamboa in 2019, in addition to fighting Rashad Coulter on the undercard of...
Miguel Cotto Chad Dawson Oscar De La Hoya Domonique Dolton Tyson Fury YuriorkisGamboa Miguel Ángel González Mickey Goodwin Naseem Hamed Thomas Hearns Evander...
semi-finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated by Cuba's YuriorkisGamboa Toledano. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Rahimov won the bronze medal...
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