Remembering Wilfredo Gomez .Vs. Lupe Pintor

Possibly!

One thing i do know is, Pintor Zarate is the hardest fight to jusdge ever imo!!!! Oh, my headache's coming back just thinking about it!!!

 

Yeh it was a great win Pintor took some huge shots and showed little effect until the end.

 

I remember it well......I thought Pintor was going to win.....then
Gomez got that big punch in and knocked him out.

Another free CBS Sports Spectacular (or similar show) classic.

 

this one was a seesaw classic back and forth just when you thought Gomez was gone he would come back, its on my top 10 greatest fights ever.

 

Great fight ,I remember Mercante admonishing Gomez "keep em up Gomez".

 

That is right......he "Teeto'ed" Pintor when the going got rough.

 

................Amazing bout, and a terrific contrast in mentality, if not style.

There was Gomez, all fire and attack, emotion as much a weapon as his right hand. Then we had Pintor, cooler and more studied. I remember after the sixth round, when Gomez landed as many elbows on the follow through as legitimate punches, Pintor showed his experience and businesslike approach by calmly motioning to the ref at the bell to watch for those fouls.

It was incredible to see how Pintor ate shot after hard shot and show no ill effects whatsoever, while Gomez puffed up like a blowfish, his face a gruesome mask by the tenth.

Then, in the 14th, a seemingly innocuous right hand landed for Gomez, and it was all but over. Losing momentum in shades over the past few rounds, Gomez ended it conclusively.

I remember reading the words of Gomez's manager before the fight that I had read in an article about it later........."when he was younger, he could box and move and not get hit. But his mind is criminal. Now his attitude is, 'you hit me, now I'm going to break your neck.' "

Something along those lines.

 

.........Nah. It was Hearns-Benitez.

 

yes, great fight at the New Orleans Carnival of Champions. Best fight at that weight I've ever seen.

 

Gomez showed he was a warrior, not of the previous booty kind.

 

Does anybody know who was ahead on cards at the time of stoppage?

 

I think Gomez was ahead on two of the three scorecards.

 

I remember thinking as Lupe went down that the bombs he had withstood during his career had finally caught up to him. A year earlier I think he would have stayed up.