Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2017-11-25, fight not so exciting between Yuriorkis Gamboa and Jason Sosa: it gets two stars.The former Wba super-Fw champion Jason Sosa entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 20-2-4 (15 KOs=75%) and he is ranked as the No.6 super featherweight in the world but he comes off the loss against #1 Vasyl Lomachenko (=Lomachenko vs Sosa). Before this bout, in 2016, he had beat Javier Fortuna (=Fortuna vs Sosa) and Stephen Smith (=Sosa vs Smith).
His opponent, the 2004 Olympic flyweight gold medalist and former IBF and Wba Fw champion Yuriorkis Gamboa, has a record of 27-2-0 (17 knockouts) and he entered as the No.36 in the same weight class. He has already fought three times in 2017 beating Rene Alvarado (=Gamboa vs Alvarado) and Alexis Reyes (=Gamboa vs Reyes) but between these two bouts he lost to Robinson Castellanos (=Gamboa vs Castellanos). Gamboa vs Sosa is on the undercard of Sergey Kovalev vs Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2017-11-25
Where: Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, USA
Division: super featherweight (130 lbs, 59.0 kg)
Sosa’s previous fight: Vasyl Lomachenko vs Jason Sosa
Gamboa’s previous fight: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Alexis Reyes
Gamboa’s next fight: Yuriorkis Gamboa vs Miguel Beltran Jr
Sosa vs Gamboa full fight video:
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Official highlights
94-94 for me. Misleading commentary and how Harold Lederman scored rounds 2 and 6 for Sosa I don’t know. Gamboa won 5 of the first 6 and the 10th. Good fight.
In my opinion the judges were too nice to Gamboa. It was a draw or an slight victory for Sosa who did most of the job. Gamboa’s fighting spirit is gone for ever since he is fighting with total lack of confidence and honestly, I fully believe he should seriously think about retirement. Very sad because he technically excelled in this category.