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Yuriorkis Gamboa Net Worth, Biography, Career, Awards, Facts

Yuriorkis Gamboa net worth: Yuriorkis Gamboa is a Cuban professional boxer who has a net worth of $2 million. Yuriorkis Gamboa was born in Guantanamo, Cuba in December 1981. He won an Olympic gold medal in the flyweight division at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Gamboa also won a gold medal at the 2003 Santo Domingo Pan American Games. He won bronze medals at the 2005 World Amateur Championships and 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and a silver medal at the 2005 World Cup in Moscow. Gamboa defeated Alexan Manvelyan in his professional boxing debut in April 2007. In 2008 he won the vacant NABF Super Featherweight title, WBC International Super Featherweight title, and WBO NABO Featherweight title. In April 2009 he defeated Jose Rojas to win the WBA Featherweight title. Gamboa won the vacant IBF Featherweight championship in September 2010. He won the Interim WBA Super Featherweight title in December 2012 and the Interim WBA Lightweight title in Jun 2013. Gamboa’s first loss came from Terence Crawford in June 2014 for the WBO Lightweight title. His last fight was a victory against Joel Montes de Oca in November 2011 to bring his professional record to 24-1. Gamboa was stripped of the WBA and IBF Featherweight Championships.

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