Why did Gomez's Bazooka not go off over Super Bantamweight?

Did he take a malfunctioning bazooka to a fistfight?
I guess he got arrested for attempted murder...

 

I’m not sure his power was necessarily all THAT much lessened with the climb in weight.

think about whom he fought there; two ATG’s in Sanchez and Nelson and Laporte, the fighter with history’s best chin this side of Marcos Villasana. Hard for anyone to dent that bunch, no matter how powerful.

And that was it. That was his featherweight resume. Hard then to draw any real conclusions about lack of power based on that stacked sample size.

 

lost his legs.

 

These two answers. I think he was cutting corners from 1980 onwards too, living large. That cost him some explosiveness as well.

 

Lost them even before Sanchez… quite a few bouts, always getting hurt then raising hell when he woke up after a little “smack” to come to.

 

Those legs were long since gone by the Sanchez fight. The earlier version of bazooka saw him almost dip to the canvas and he had the rare ability to punch up from that position. He could squat--and did--better than sweet pea.