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Gamboa pushed, but tops Farenas

Updated: December 11, 2012, 1:27 AM ET
By Dan Rafael | ESPN.com

LAS VEGAS -- Yuriorkis Gamboa, out of the ring for 15 months, made a successful comeback on Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, even though he got knocked down.

Fighting in the co-featured bout on the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez IV card, Gamboa survived a ninth-round knockdown -- and scored two of his own -- to unanimously outpoint Michael Farenas of the Philippines and win a vacant interim junior lightweight title.

The judges favored the faster and more ...

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