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For the next six months, maybe a year, boxing promoter Bob Arum will be like the boy who dangles a toy on a string just out of reach of a cat.

A few seconds after Juan Manuel Lopez had Featherweight Title Steven Luevano in a game in the theater was a knock at Madison Square Garden, Arum has been inundated with requests to make a match between Lopez and the other winners on the card on Saturday, Yuriorkis Gamboa.

Gamboa was electrifying anchored, while retaining his World Boxing Association featherweight title with a second round of Rogers Mtagwa arrest, setting down the idea in people that Lopez-Gamboa had to fight the next one.

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Not so fast, "said Arum, who let the idea, while it enjoys trickle Profiles of the fighters. It is a fascinating battle now, but in a year when both still appeared on HBO a few times and visibility is expanding its hardcore base, a match between them could be the modern equivalent in 1981 classic between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns.

For years, fans were calling for this fight, like Leonard and Hearns roared through the welterweight division. But Arum, who was waiting at the urging of coach Mike Leonard Manager, until the demand was so great that even non-boxing fans shouted for the battle.

"Mike was a genius coach," said Arum. "He's Ray a lot of money. And I owe these children the same."

Gamboa (17-0, 15 knockouts), which opened in 2004 gold medalist from Cuba, the HBO show with a surprisingly efficient performance. Since its earliest days as a professional, Gamboa was a world-class offensive fighter. It combines speed, power and punch combinations like few others.

But it was often easier to miss the sea from the side of a cruise ship when it was up to his chin Gamboa's, has never missed the most stable.

On Saturday, however, it was made a professional, controlled Gamboa, the hard-boiled Mtagwa like a beginner.

He was electrifying fast and brutally strong in a typically brilliant offensive effort, but he gave Mtagwa little to hit in a rare gem defense. Managed by CompuBox statistics Mtagwa to only 10 of the 57 shots he accused referee Steve Smog country stopped the fight 2:35 into the second round.

"I have begun to correct the errors in my defensive game," said Gamboa, who had sold his gold medal, he throw enough money for a birthday celebration for his daughter. "I've worked on it and I think I'm improving. Basically, I came here to demonstrate my abilities. My message is simple: I'm here to fight the best lightweights too."

The department is full of talent and there are a lot of quality fights that can be made. A Gamboa, Lopez would be playing the kind of star quality that would have an unforgettable show, but the fans have to go to settle for the starters, while Arum builds interest.

"There are a ton of great spring weights, so if I let these guys go, it is clean and the whole lot of them, which makes them much more easily than if I threw it together now," said Arum.

Lopez had a tough task to Gamboa, and against a quality that the world champions came into the bout with a 37-1-1 record. Luevano, but it turned out, not much of a game for Lopez, who had struggled and was nearly incapacitated by Mtagwa in his last outing in the same ring three months ago.

But Lopez was not concerned and thought he was drained by the struggle to make only the super-bantamweight limit of 122 pounds for the October fight. After that bout, he announced he would relinquish his World Boxing Organization super bantamweight, WBO to pursue Luevano featherweight belt.

He raked Luevano with right hooks and uppercuts, as well as just the left hand. He was not as dynamic as Gamboa, but when he quit the chance, he showed why he is considered one of the rising young stars of the game.

Lopez (28-0, 25 KOs taken) Luevano with a right uppercut in the middle of the ring badly injured, that the reigning champion. Luevano, who was bleeding from the mouth and nose, and whose left eye was nearly swollen shut, staggered back into a neutral corner.

Lopez fell and there were several shots, putting Luevano down. Luevano drew off campus, but he wobbled to his corner wisely stopped and referee Benji Esteves to fight in 2:16 of the seventh round.

Lopez insisted he was not trying to live up to Gamboa effort - he was getting ready for his bout and did not know what happened in the Gamboa Mtagwa bout - but he did it on a show that had questioned the amount of the sellout 5142 Delirium.

"I knew I was as good a boxer as he is, and I knew I had to be stronger," Lopez said of Luevano. "You have to be smart and patient, and I did."

And now go to the public must be patient, Arum, because the value of familiar waiting game. He will let Gamboa Lopez and before the public even dangle a few times - he said they could on a split-site duplication event in the spring or early summer fight - and said it is at least a chance that they are not fighting at all in this year.

"If I is wait until the year 2011, what I would do," said Arum. "I do not want to make this fight too early, because then the money is to take these children out of his pocket."

With so much talent, because in the featherweight division and the skills that have Lopez and Gamboa began Arum, where they on a par with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.

When the public comes to see them better and comes to appreciate their fan-friendly style, they are still growing in popularity.

"I want to ask me this question about [if they would] fight to hear over and over and over again," Arum said, grinning. "Because then I know they take care of their business and we do our jobs. They are great fighters and great young kids, but this fight will be a great day. If I only threw them now, yes, you'd love it and it would be a great fight, but it would not be the kind of business, it will do for a while from now.

"Will you believe me when I tell you, being on the road a struggle between these two guys huge. You look."