Wilfredo Gomez beat the living day lights out of Juan Meza

Decline?? He was undefeated & all his wins were by Knockout. Going into the Sanchez fight. 36-0 36 Knock outs.

 

Which doesn't undoubtably mean he hadn't start to decline in a small way of course. Cobra simply means he'd lost some of his sharpness and edge.

I actually think he'd gone downhill a little stylewise, he'd become more of a slugger as opposed to the supreme boxer/puncher he had been earlier. Rosario did this as well, on a lesser scale. They become all encompassed by their power and skills suffer.

 

I would not dimish the performances of the great Sanchez and Nelson against him but for me he was the greatest at 122 in the history of the sport.

 

Great Performance, remember seeing it on national Tv years ago.I would've loved to see Wilfredo fought Jamie Garza and Jeff Chandler, it was never meant to be, however.

 

:good

 

Jesus, Ndukwu was awful.

 

I'll tell you what though, Ndwuku had the best knockdown I have ever seen, he flew backwards horizontally and landed with the middle of his back on the bottom rope. Amazing stuff.

 

The Garza-Berna fight was pretty impressive display of power-punching.

 

Haven't seen it, can you explain it for me?

 

Right...great fighters like Gomez...with all the skills to go with their power, become intoxicated...seduced by the power they possess...they depend more on the power at the expense of the other skills they had that went along with it.

 

Probably better just to post the fight, and let you judge for yourself. :good

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Edit: I was initially going to compliment the manner in which Garza decimated Berna with right hands once the initial kd was scored, but he was doing some impressive work with the hook as well. Definitely had power in both hands.

 

At the time, Garza wasn't able to put his finger on just why he was able to hit with such power, but did say, "Maybe it helps that I knew Little Red. Nobody could punch harder than Little Red." High praise from one huge slugger to another.

Meza proved that Gomez still had it after the humiliating beating Sanchez handed him. Pintor was Wilfredo's Manila.

Eddie Ndukwu was a decorated amateur, but was instantly obvious he had no business being in the ring with Gomez, and Wilfredo knew it too. Eddie's tight peek a boo wasn't much of a defense against that level of mastery. There was a very sympathetic gesture from Gomez at the end of round one, an affectionate arm across the shoulders at the bell before they headed to their corners. It was also charitable sportsmanship to rush to prevent Ndukwu from falling out of the ring. Gomez had a reputation for being dirty, but certainly not in this instance. Certainly he was mindful of the fact he was on live American television, and wanted to display himself well. (The next time out, on NBC's Friday Night Fights, he was on fire though, eager to pay back Derrik Holmes for starching him in his amateur television debut in 1974.)

 

That Ndwuku fight is the only one that Gomez shows compassion. Really odd fight, aswell.

 

Guy beat David Kotey coming up, so this might be a case of Gomez being that good, rather than Ndukwu really being that bad.

Addendum: That's not say that Ndukwu was great. Not at all. But Kotey wasn't that far removed from his featherweight title reign, so a victory over Poison would have established him as being a credible opponent for Bazooka to face at that point.