Michael Gomez
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Despite finishing his career fighting in the lightweight division, Gomez is more notable for his fights at featherweight and super-featherweight. During his career he amassed a number of regional championships, most significantly the British super-featherweight title twice, from 1999 to 2004. He also held the WBU super featherweight title from 2004 to 2005.
Gomez, who has been compared to Johnny Tapia, has lived a turbulent life and was often involved in controversial fights. In Gomez's initial matches he suffered a number of losses to journeyman opposition but then went on a run of victories which stretched for almost four years. Of his 17 fights between February 2001 and March 2008, 16 ended in knockouts. Concerns arose about his drinking and failure to adhere to his diet and training regimes after a loss to László Bognár in 2001. Gomez appeared to be "back on track" in 2003, with his high-profile fight against Edinburgh-based fighter Alex Arthur for the British and WBA Inter-Continental super-featherweight titles, which Gomez won by knocking out Arthur in the fifth round.
In 2006, Gomez suffered a controversial loss to Peter McDonagh when, in the middle of a round, he dropped his guard and walked out of the ring, later saying he had retired from boxing. He returned to the ring after a 15-month interval. On 21 June 2008, Gomez lost what was seen as possibly his last bout: a last chance saloon opportunity to resurrect his career against rising star and Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan. Although scoring a surprise knockdown against Khan early on, the fight ended with Gomez being stopped in five rounds.
Gomez took the surname Gomez after his childhood hero Wilfredo Gómez. Provided by Wikipedia
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10by A. Paola Zuluaga, Przemyslaw Bidzinski, Emilie Chanclud, Aurelie Ducasse, Bastien Cayrol, Michael Gomez Selvaraj, Manabu Ishitani, Alain Jauneau, Laurent Deslandes, Thomas Kroj, Corinne Michel, Boris Szurek, Ralf Koebnik, Jean-Benoit MorelGet full text
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11by Dan Smale, Susan E. Strahan, Richard Querel, Udo Frieß, Gerald E. Nedoluha, Sylvia E. Nichol, John Robinson, Ian Boyd, Michael Kotkamp, R. Michael Gomez, Mark Murphy, Hue Tran, Jamie McGawGet full text
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