Yuriorkis Gamboa

Amateur Career

2001 Silver Medalist at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia as a light flyweight:

2003 Represented Cuba at the World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand as a flyweight:

2003 Won the Gold Medal at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic at Flyweight:

2004 Won the Gold Medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Grecce at Flyweight:

Round of 32 - Defeated Igor Samoilenko of Moldavia - PTS (46-33)
Round of 16 - Defeated Somjit Jongjohor of Thailand - PTS (26-21)
Quarterfinals - Defeated Georgy Balakshin of Russia - PTS (26-18)
Semifinals - Defeated Rustamhodza Rahimov of Germany - PTS (20-11)
Gold Medal Match - Defeated Jerome Thomas of France - PTS (38-23)

2005 Silver Medalist at the World Cup in Moscow, Russia as a featherweight

2005 Won the Bronze Medal at the World Championships in Mianyang, China as a featherweight

2006 Bronze Medalist at the Central American & Caribbean Games in Cartagena, Colombia as a featherweight

2006 Won the Gold Medal at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan as a featherweight

1999 Light flyweight participant, losing to Kadel Luis Martinez 7-3 in first round
2000 Light flyweight champion, defeating Yan Barthelemy 19-9 in final
2001 silver medalist at Light flyweight, losing in final to Yan Barthelemy 7-2
2002 silver medalist at Light flyweight, losing in final to Yan Barthelemy 13-5
2003 flyweight champion, defeating Yosvani Acosta 18-5 in final
2004 flyweight champion, defeating Kadel Luis Martinez 24-20 in final
2005 withdrew in opening round match of flyweight competition
2006 featherweight champion, defeating Luis Franco 27-10 in final

April 27 2007 - Defeated Alexan Manvelyan 6-1 (4 KOs) by unanimous decision in his professional debut.
Oct. 30 2007 - Made his U.S. debut by defeating Adailton De Jesus 19-2 (17 KOs) via a 6th Round TKO.
Feb. 22 2008 - Scored a 1st Round KO victory over Johnnie Edwards13-1-1 (7 KOs) on ESPN Friday Night Fights to claim the vacant NABFSuper Featherweight Title.
May 17 2008 - Claimed the vacant WBC International Super Featherweight Title via a unanimous decision victory over Darling Jimenez 23-2-2 (14 KOs).
July 18 2008 - Won his 10th consecutive bout by knocking out Al Seeger 27-3 (21 KOs) in the 1st Round to win the vacant WBO NABO Featherweight Title.
Oct 4 2008 - Scored a 2nd Round knockout victory over then undefeated Marcos Ramirez 25-0 (16 KOs) on HBO Boxing After Dark.
Oct 10 2009 - Defeated Whyber Garcia to defend the WBA Featherweight title for the first time.
Sep 11 2010 - Beat Orlando Salido by UD to unify the WBA and IBF Featherweight titles. Becomes the first Cuban IBF world champion since the organizations inception in 1983.

Has a record of 5-1 (3 KO) in World Title fights.
Has a record of 6-1 (1 KO) against former or current world titlists.
- Won against Jonathan Victor Barros, Orlando Salido, Daniel Ponce de Leon, Darleys Perez, Jason Sosa, and Roman Martinez.
- Lost against Terence Crawford.
Gamboa defected from the Cuban national team in December 2006, while in Venezuela along with Yan Barthelemy and Odlanier Solis. After escaping to Colombia, and arriving in Miami, all three boxers signed professional promotional contracts with German-based ARENA Box-Promotion.
He was the subject of the "New Face" article in the May 2008 issue of The Ring Magazine.
Son of Carlos Gamboa.