Some fighters utter inanities in multiple languages. Others offer up inoffensive, boring chatter, the kind of innocuous remarks such as “I’ll do my talking in the ring.”
Cuban featherweight and undefeated stylist Yuriorkis Gamboa is, thankfully, not one of those boring fellows.
Top Rank’s Todd duBoef hosted a small, intimate gathering of media types to chat with the 29 year old Gamboa (20-0, 16 KOs) at Victor’s Cafe during a persistent, heavy downpour Tuesday night, in advance of Gamboa’s Saturday night HBO 12-rounder against solid journeyman Daniel Ponce De Leon (Atlantic City).
The deluge of rain and the fact the rendezvous at the Cuban eatery made famous by frequent visitor Roberto Duran’s “Hands Of Stone” being immortalized on the sidewalk occurred only hours after a Tuesday morning Marquez-Pacquiao III presser kept the turnout low.
