{"id":48380,"date":"2014-11-28T13:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=48380"},"modified":"2014-11-28T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T19:58:44","slug":"edner-cherry-calls-out-yuriorkis-gamboa-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=48380","title":{"rendered":"Edner Cherry CALLS OUT Yuriorkis Gamboa – Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boxingringheader\"<\/a>With Thanksgiving upon us, junior lightweight contender Edner Cherry believes there are plenty of turkeys in the 130-pound division who seem to run for cover whenever his name is mentioned. The 32-year-old Cherry has not lost a fight in more than more than six years. His last setback, in 2008, came via 12-round decision to Tim Bradley for the latter\u2019s WBC junior welterweight title, 10 pounds over Cherry\u2019s natural fighting weight. Cherry has boxed 10 times since then. He has won nine of them, six by knockout, and he boxed one no contest when his opponent, Eric Aiken, claimed he couldn\u2019t continue after getting hit after the bell ending the first round.
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\u201cI want to get into the ring with any champion or any of the top guys at 130,\u201d said Cherry, who blew out Osumanu Akaba, of Ghana, in two rounds in his last fight Oct. 18 in Philadelphia. \u201cAll I want to do is fight the best and show the world that I\u2019m the best 130-pound fighter in the world. Look at the guys who beat me, all above my natural weight,\u201d said Cherry, who also dropped a 10-round decision to Paulie Malignaggi in 2007. \u201cThey were all current, former or soon-to-be champions. I\u2019ve fought them all. Now I\u2019m fighting at 130, never lost at this weight, knocking guys out and I can\u2019t get an opportunity. I\u2019ve never been knocked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cherry has solid wins over Vicente Escobido, ex-champs Stevie Johnston and Juan Polo Perez, Monte Meza-Clay and Daniel Alicea.<\/p>\n

Trainer Dan Birmingham doesn\u2019t think there is a junior lightweight on the planet who can deal with Cherry. \u201cEdner is the strongest junior lightweight in the world,\u201d Birmingham said. \u201cHe\u2019s paid his dues and it\u2019s time he gets the right fights at the right weight. If he fights any of the current champions, he wins. Maybe that\u2019s why no one wants to fight him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cherry currently is ranked #9 by the IBF, #11 by the WBO, #13 by the WBC.<\/p>\n

Foremost on Cherry\u2019s hit list is former champ Yuriorkis Gamboa, the ex-champion from Cuba.<\/p>\n

Edner\u2019s too strong and hits too hard for Gamboa,\u201d said Birmingham.<\/p>\n

Manager Patrick Doljanin: \u201cIf we can\u2019t get Gamboa, Edner will fight any of the current champions, especially Orlando Salido, which has Fight-of-the-Year written all over it. Edner\u2019s willing to fight anyone at 130 in the kind of fights that boxing fans deserve and want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doljanin scratches his head when he looks at the world ratings. \u201cYou\u2019ve got guys like Ryan Kielczweski, who hasn\u2019t fought anybody and somehow he managed to get a No. 7 rating with the WBA,\u201d Doljanin said. \u201cHe\u2019s done nothing to warrant that rating. Edner would fight this guy in a winner-take-all fight and I guarantee this kid (Kielczweski). Let\u2019s see if Kielczweski, his managers or promoters have the balls to take us up on that offer.\u201d \u201cI bet the don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Promoter J Russell Peltz has tried to line-up Cherry with several world-rated 130-pounders, with no luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoxing is a business, not a sport,\u201d said Peltz. \u201cIf it were a sport, an organized sport, then some of these so-called contenders would have to fight Cherry. Guys like Jose Pedraza go around calling out the champs, but when we tried to get a fight with him all we got was a lot of un-returned phone calls.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we had to fight at 135, we would consider Mickey Bey, who backed-out once before. the winner of the Terrance Crawford-Ray Beltran fight or any other top lightweight in the world,\u201d said
\nPeltz.<\/p>\n

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With Thanksgiving upon us, junior lightweight contender Edner Cherry believes there are plenty of turkeys in the 130-pound division who seem to run for cover whenever his name is mentioned. The 32-year-old Cherry has not lost a fight in more than more than six years. His last setback, in 2008, came via 12-round decision to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11298],"class_list":["post-48380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-edner-cherry-calls-out-yuriorkis-gamboa-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48380"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}