Who Goes The Distance With Prime Wilfredo Gomez At 122?

The obvious key for Fenech would be to smother and bully him. He would have to take away his punching room and pound away. These things were Fenech's specialty, he had extraordinary strength and excelled at phone booth warefare laden with dirty, bullying tactics. No-one ever had the strength and aggressiveness Fenech would bring at him and Gomez had the one punch and skills edge and was a great great fighter. Gomez always neglected his skills in favour of war if an opponent was willing. It would for sure be war.

 

Eder Jofre, Jeff Fenech, and Orlando Canizales.

 

Fenech was far too easy to hit to go the distance with Gomez.

 

Fenech, Jofre, Morales, Barrera, McKinney maybe.

 

Only Jofre...and he was far greater than the other fighters mentioned.

 

Rigo could do it with a good shot at beating him.

 

I'm going to go back a bit further and name Manuel Ortiz as a fine chance. He had numerous fights over the weights (118) and had a fantastic chin. His style would also mesh well here.

 

I'll just cut and paste my response from a previous thread about these 2

First off just let me say that I think Rigo's chin gets a bit underrated, he took clean shots from a KO artist in Donaire and never shook, he got caught off balence coming out of a clinch with his feet square and was up by 3. Same against Amigasa and the second knockdown was more a push than anything. Either way he got up and hospitalised both men. Also I don't think I've ever seen a fighter with better footwork who is harder to corner than Rigo. He looks to clinch and smother on the inside denying Gomez his best opportunities. Add to that shocking hand speed, crushing power, the increased distance that usually accompany an orthodox vs southpaw match up and Rigo's slight reach advantage he has all the ability to dominate on the outside and walk Gomez into that lazer left hand. He fights well going in both directions using his check right hook to skip away out of distance. Rigo has all the tools to give anyone EVER a hard, frustrating evening at 122.

Nobody doubts he got the skills, it's just a matter of heart which he's shown on 2 occasions. The only current fighter who would even trouble him is a weight class higher and won't fight him.

 

Terrible.