Frankie Gómez
Frankie Gomez ( born February 4, 1992, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California) is an American boxer. Vice world champion 2009 in the light welterweight.
Amateur career
Career
Frankie Gomez, who is a resident of East Los Angeles, began at age six with the boxes. He proved to be extremely talented and joined the boxing club LAPD PAL Los Angeles. He is trained by Ronnie Rivota.
As an American junior champion ( Cadets ) it was used at the 2007 World Youth Championship ( Cadets = age group up to 16 years ) in Baku. He suggested there in the weight class up to 54 kg bodyweight his four opponents in the final, he defeated the Azerbaijani Elvin Aliyev for points and thus became Junior World Champion.
In the following years he has been carefully constructed by the U.S. box dressing. His next important start, he had again only in 2009 at the U.S. Senior Championship, where he took part despite being only 17 years old. He proved to be in the light welterweight, in which he had now grown into, as the best boxer in the finals and defeated Jose Benavides 11:9 hits.
After he later at a meet against Italy in Vaghera Renato De Donato defeated something on points, the association resolute employ it also in the Senior World Championships in Milan. In Milan, he proved to be of combat and technically accomplished boxer who point with wins over Mikhail Bakatura from Belarus ( 18:4 ), Levan Gwamichawa, Georgia (16:6 ) and Sanzharbek Rakhmonov, Uzbekistan ( 19:10), an abort win id Third round before Egidijus Kavaliauskas, Lithuania and a points victory over the experienced Hungary Gyula Kate ( 8:7 ) in the final battle, where he met Rosniel Iglesias from Cuba. In an exciting battle but he lost this with 2:8 matches. Despite this defeat, winning the World Championship silver medal for the 17 -year-old American has a sensational success.
International success
U.S. Championships
Countries fighting
Note: WM = World Championship, Welterweight, up to 64 kg body weight
Professional career
In 2010, Frankie Gomez was a professional boxer. His manager is Hector Ibarra. He denied on April 3, 2010 in Las Vegas at the Light Welterweight his first professional fight, defeating it his American compatriot Clayvonne Howard by techn. KO i.d. 3rd round. He also won his subsequent fights. His last fight he initially denied on January 14, 2011 in Indio, California. He edged the Mexican Jose Alfredo Lugo over six rounds by unanimous decision. Gomez is very carefully constructed and contested as a professional yet no championship fight.