Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez ( left ) with the Puerto Rican historian, Tony Santiago
Wilfredo Gómez ( born October 29, 1956 in Las Nuns, Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican boxer. Nicknamed "Bazooka " Gómez had one of the highest knockout win rates in professional boxing (88 %). The " Ring Magazine " 2003 Reviewed Gómez as thirteenth best boxers and Halbfedergewichtler best of all time. In 1995, he was welcomed into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Amateur
In 1972 he took part in the Olympic Games in Munich, but already retired on the first lap. In 1974 he was in Havana with exclusive early victories amateur world champion bantamweight. More Amateur achievements reach him with victories in the Central American and Caribbean Championships 1972 in San José and the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1974 in Santo Domingo.
Professional career
In 1974, he turned professional in 1977 he beat the South Koreans Dun - Kyun Kim KO after he himself was in the first round at the bottom and was WBC Light Featherweight World Champion. With his long-time series of title defenses to 1983 he defeated, among others, the Mexican Bantamgewichtler (ie slightly smaller ) Carlos Zárate (then 52-0 with 51 KOs) early and Lupe Pintor. All of his 17 title defenses he won by knockout, of which only the Japanese Kobayashi is on genuine semi featherweight learning, however, worth mentioning. After beating Pintor he resigned the title to get out in the featherweight.
He had in 1981, during his time as Acting half featherweight world champion, trying to win the WBC featherweight title, losing to the Mexican defending champion Salvador Sanchez by TKO in the eighth round, it was his first defeat in professional boxing.
Mixed results in higher classes
In 1984, he then won the featherweight title on the version of the WBC with a points victory over Juan La Porte, but he lost it in his first defense of the title by knockout in the eleventh round to Azumah Nelson.
Then he moved to the super featherweight (junior lightweight ) and secured in 1985 with an official "victory" was regarded by the Boxpresse as a catastrophic mistake on Rocky Lockridge the world title of the WBA, him but had to turn at the first defense against Alfredo Layne ( mixed record 13-5 ) exits.