Gamboa tears Achilles Tendon

Yuriorkis Gamboa has torn his Achiles Tendon in his loss to Gervonta Davis, according to Dan Rafael of espn.com.

“There is a complete tear through the Achilles tendon,” Dr. Eric Godreau wrote in his report. “The possibility of a fracture cannot be totally excluded.”

“That he was able to fight for as long as he did with this injury is incredible,” Gonzalez said. “From everything I have read and videos I have watched about this kind of injury, he wasn’t supposed to be able to do what he did. Speaking to him in my office when the dust settled, I asked him, ‘How were you able to do this?’ He told me when he went down in the second round is when he felt the pain. He said the shot [from Davis] didn’t put him down. He said he was fine. He said, ‘What put me down was I felt a snap in the back of my leg. When I got up, I started looking at the back of my leg.’ It’s amazing. I’m without words.

“He wasn’t supposed to even go to the third round with this kind of injury. If he is at 100 percent, connect the dots. We believe a rematch is warranted. He couldn’t move laterally the way he wanted to, couldn’t sit down on his punches. Gamboa at 100 percent wasn’t even supposed to last four or five rounds. But he had a grade 3 rupture and went to the 12th round. I’ve never seen anything like it with this type of his injury. We are not trying to tarnish what Gervonta did but Gamboa feels being 100 percent it would have been a completely different fight. He knows it, I know it, Davis knows it.”

“My injury sustained in the 2d round…complete tear [grade 3] verified as per MRI and board certified Dr. I went 12 with Davis and did my best under the circumstances,” Gamboa wrote on social media. “Like I said, lets dance again when I’m at 100%.”