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Highlights of Wilfred Gomez defending the WBC Super Bantamweight Title against Carlos Mendoza on ABC Boxing
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00:00a job this is the way it was this fight videotaped earlier round three is back to you in the light
00:08trunks is wilfredo gomez now to the left of your screen and the other fighter in the purple trunks
00:15or dark trunks is of course carlos mendoza from panama city a surprising fight it was in this
00:23round that he began to put things together to the surprise of gomez gomez's confidence was clear
00:31we saw gomez back in munich west germany in the 20th olympiad he did not win the goal there but
00:39he has come on to be one of the most feared fighters inch for inch and pound for pound in
00:45the ring a man of almost savage fury but mendoza took the best that gomez could throw in the first
00:51two rounds and there a caution from referee richard green to gomez about butter now that undercut of
00:59gomez's proved to be his most effective blow holding the head forward mendoza was a sucker for the upper
01:08cut and yet you saw him staggered right there slipped so many punches here he took the best that gomez could
01:15throw and he survived it and he would come back against it gomez at this point appearing to be an easy
01:24winner but it didn't prove to be that way at all not at all this was the third round you saw that uppercutting
01:35thrown with the right and then with the left gomez one of the few fighters who can throw now now you
01:40see mendoza coming back using the left jab getting off the road gomez one of the few fighters that can
01:46uppercut effectively with either hand now there was gomez backing off to take a break one suspected he might
01:56be growing arm weary at that point he had thrown so many punches and mendoza simply refused to buckle under
02:08then the third round finally would come to an end mendoza would come out for the fourth round which we will
02:17show you taking the pummeling right there was mendoza this was round three remember videotapes earlier
02:29here in las vegas nevada the superman late championship of the world at stake you just saw mendoza get in a
02:37good left after all the beating he had taken he was coming back getting the left in there against gomez who
02:45had to have been surprised at this point anticipating an easy victory but the little panamanian had won 24
02:53of his last 25 fights had in his records fought five different champions tough cook the third round ended
03:06then as the third round ended
03:08here in las vegas nevada the queen rounds gomez appearing totally confident one of the best
03:18balanced fighters i have ever seen chris you watched this fight with me at that point how did you feel
03:26about it well i always remembered that mendoza had been knocked out eight times in a lengthy career and
03:32whose record is not accurate but as you said had won 24 of the last 25 and all but won by knockout but i
03:39became a believer when i saw that he was up on his feet all the time like he was walking on eggs he knew
03:44how to move he was not an easy target to hit for uh the champion and the champion as you'll see a little
03:51bit later on became very frustrated and you'll see a swollen area over his left eye and it's probably good
03:57that he did take him out in the 10th round because mendoza is one of the toughest lighter division
04:03fighters we've seen in a long while all right we saw signs of mendoza taking the best of gomez in the
04:10third round and beginning to come back now fourth round action and watch the way mendoza began to come
04:18back in this one he stunk gomez with that left he had just thrown gomez beginning to look at his opponent
04:26with a new respect in this round remember that this man gomez has had 26 fights 25 victories 25 kaos
04:40one drop but right there you saw mendoza beginning to get combinations in against gomez and it was then
04:47that we first began to see a puffiness over the left eye and around the left eye and the upper left
04:54cheekbone of gomez mendoza see him staying out of range gomez trying to work to the midriff to weaken
05:04mendoza and bring his guard down as you see the graphic and as we have told you this was videotaped earlier
05:12fourth round action gomez missing with his blows now mendoza going to the belly did you see that chris
05:24yes and gomez in white at 122 pounds which is the super bantamweight limit earlier in the week howard
05:31he had weighed 128 pounds so we thought at this point that maybe because he had to shed six to get
05:38the limit in a championship fight that he was weak but he punched himself out as we both know and a
05:44mendoza uh just a tough tough bantamweight well what you viewers just saw was gomez pinioned against
05:51the ropes and mendoza hitting him with combination clearly winning the fourth round and after the
05:59fourth round was over going in to the middle rounds mendoza held his own and more most of us had the
06:07fight even going into what turned out to be the final round but we will see for ourselves what happened
06:14this the fourth round you will see the eighth and ninth rounds and then the wrap-up in the tenth round
06:21the crowd loved this fight the crowd by the way still stunned by the rapidity and the abruptness of
06:28sugar ray leonard's first round knockout of andy price mendoza getting the left in maybe you can see
06:35the toughiness now in gomez's left eye there has been blood and is blood now from the left nostril of gomez
06:44at this point it was a different gomez from the cocky fighter who began the fight and cleaned up in
06:52the early going we're approaching the end of this round videotape earlier we'll be back for the later
07:00rounds in a moment we're back for the fight held before we took the air this is videotaped fight fought
07:11earlier we've seen the third and the fourth rounds the comeback of mendoza in the early middle rounds
07:18mendoza was plaguing gomez that eye got tighter and tighter more and more swollen this eighth round
07:26action at this point you could see that mendoza was an emboldened fighter he was no longer that respectful
07:34of wilfredo gomez which in the long run may have proved to be his tenth round undoing the referee was richard green
07:43here in las vegas spikes was scored by three judges the referee no voice in the score
07:49in the eighth round try and note if you will that left eye of gomez notice how mendoza at this point
07:57was picking off gomez's blows with his glove because gomez's arms had grown kind of leather
08:04seemed kind of heavy the crisp sharp punching of the early rounds seemed to have vanished
08:10and behind this behind this we could hear the press who and are as they themselves found it hard to
08:19believe that mendoza was putting up the battle that he was i am told by my producer chet 40 that we will
08:27not have time to show you the ninth round where mendoza dominated look at that left and the right and i told
08:33you he was an emboldened fighter but we will take you to the tenth round so that you can see the stunning
08:40comeback of gomez there's gomez totally on the defense and a now confident mendoza feeling he had taken
08:49control of the fight and indeed he had was giving it to the very great fighter wilfredo gomez
08:56now there i told you that gomez's most effective blow was the uppercut because as you look at the fight
09:07posture of mendoza that head is fallen and is wide open to the uppercut at close quarters and how gomez can
09:16go the uppercut but still you see mendoza scoring the larger number of blows in this fight and clearly
09:23winning the round at this point nobody could believe what they were saying right chris no but
09:29they were aware that mendoza on the right of your screen had fought five world champions much more
09:34experienced than the champion in white gomez but gomez you're thinking he annihilated demolished
09:41zarate another champion and here he was having trouble with this club fighter but what a challenger
09:47he really was what a challenge
09:53what a right right there his slow motion of mendoza landing scoring some good punches coming right up
10:07that was gomez in the corner and you see the left eye half the size of the right now watch look at that
10:14right and notice where it went against the damaged left eye then the left to that nostril from which blood
10:21was drawn all right we'll return with more boxing action round 10 of that fight mendoza against the
10:29champion after this message in a word all right this was the start of the 10th round at this point my
10:38unofficial scorecard had mendoza hit by a point michael katz for instance of the new york times had mendoza
10:45behind by a point subjective is scoring and fighting of course but everyone knew it was an amazingly close fight
10:54now this the 10th round
10:59watch closely because as i said earlier mendoza had become a confident fighter maybe two bowls and that
11:08may have been his undoing because gomez is so very great indeed now right there a little bit of apparent
11:16controversy a suddenly developed slick in the back of the glove at the last glove of course see that the
11:24finger went into it there it was now the slit had become a hole and they elected to do nothing about
11:32which the green tries to push it down and that was the turning point of the fight because watch
11:45suddenly gomez became a tiger and you saw that finishing right
11:49it happened so suddenly it stopped only entire crowd
11:54mendoza getting up
11:56richard green
12:02checking the glove blood coming from gomez's left knocker but now mendoza was ready to go he had felt
12:10the full savage fury of the fists of wilfredo gomez it had taken until the 10th round at a time when gomez
12:18seemed the more weary but drawing upon his inner resources fired away relentlessly and there was
12:25the right and then the left but the right in there first did the heavy work as it did on the first knockdown
12:33and this was it he was game but the legs were rubbery the eyes were glazed and richard green
12:42was ready to stop it elected not to but right here defensive against the force land rope designed for
12:51the protection of the fighter gomez was at mendoza again so they have two knockdowns in the fight and
13:00richard green one would wish that he would have stopped it here and now he still let mendoza go on
13:07gomez pummeling him as well mendoza staying upright on incredible nerve alone finally the referee stopped
13:18the fight a 10th round pko just before the round would have ended now we're going to show you in just a
13:27couple of seconds we'll be showing you there was gomez receiving the victory and he was a tired gomez
13:34who had again punched himself out christopher no question about it he was happy to have this one
13:40under his belt he really was this corner i've never seen such a worried corner because they knew that he
13:45had thrown his best punches from both sides of that bantamweight body at 122 pounds and it had to be
13:52somewhat depleted by dropping that weight over a two-day carried howard but he he knows only one thing
13:58he has often said when i get in the ring i don't read the rule book i just fight because he had some
14:04lobos he throws them from everywhere but what's up what's next for him now would it be danny little
14:09red lopez i believe so little red is here tonight right i think for the very purpose of scouting gomez
14:18now here in slow-mo the first knockdown look at that right and the left missed but it wasn't needed
14:25it and that was knockdown number one this was knockdown number two mendosa missing the right did it the
14:35left finished it off and so it was the comb
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