Juan Carlos Gomez KOs Brazilian Frank

Written By Oliver Richardt
 

 

After his one year fight break (for having been tested positive) former WBC Cruiserweight Champion Juan Carlos Gomez (33) came back with a knockout.

 

In round three the Cuban Heavyweight KO’d his Brazilian opponent Daniel Frank. There was a lot of work for the doctors in the “Alsterdorfer Sporthalle” in Hamburg, Germany, because Frank went down scary hard. But Gomez (40-1-0/ 34 KOs) wasn’t really satisfied, he feels he didn’t really show a persuading fight. Gomez: “The expectations had been really high and I had some problems at the beginning, but finally I knocked him out and won. That counts, I am back.”
 

 

Coach Phil Paolina was fine with his guy. Said: “Juan needed two rounds to throw away the dust after his break. But our plan was to start though in round three and that’s what he did.”

Gomez’ return was only the first step to go back to be champion again. Arena Box-Promotion Head Ahmet Oener: “Everybody knows how strong Juan can be, he will show it against stronger opponents. We plan a title fight within his three next fights and we want Wladimir Klitschko.”

 
 

Spada Still unbeaten

 

The unbeaten Italian middleweight Domenico Spada (22-0-0, 12 KOs) won the WBC International title over Mustapha Karagol (8-1-0). The young Turkish guy fought a great fight but had to give up with a shoulder injury in the break of round eight. At that time Spada was only a little ahead on the score cards. Spada will defend his title against Mahir Oral who had to pull off because of a broken hand.