Concern is growing for former world champion and Olympic gold medal winner Yuriorkis Gamboa, because of the unwillingness of the Cuban authorities to release him from jail while waiting for his legal case to be resolved.

As krikya360.com reported a few weeks ago, Gamboa was the involved in a fatal accident on December 31 while driving through Santiago de Cuba on his way to Guantanamo.

Gamboa was reportedly driving on a dark road and was unable to avoid a pedestrian, who allegedly stepped in front of the boxer's car. The pedestrian passed away from their injuries.

According to Gamboa's manager, Jesse Rodriguez, there is a witness who seems to alleviate the boxer's guilt.

“It is somewhat frustrating, because we are dealing with something where you feel bad for the loss of human life,” Rodríguez said to George Ebro.

“If he has to face a trial by Cuban justice, well, he should show up and assume whatever happens there, but immediate release is fair so that he can wait for his trial at home. He has to face the law of Cuba, but Gamboa should be free.

"If the law says that there is a trial to come, the witness who was with the deceased has declared that it was not Gamboa's fault. The reconstruction of the facts shows that it was not Gamboa's fault. But if the law says that a trial must be held, let the boy go until he faces his day in the Cuban court."

Gamboa has split his time between Miami and Guantánamo and usually comes to the United States to carry out his training camps for important fights, as he did for his recent bouts against Devin Haney, Gervonta Davis an Isaac Cruz.

Gamboa has lost his last three fights, including a brutal knockout loss to Cruz on April 16, 2022.

Now at 41-years-old, and with this pending legal issue, everything indicates that his boxing career has definitively come to an end.