Juan Carlos Gomez
Juan Carlos Gomez 
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Juan Carlos Gomez |
| Fight name | Pantera Negra |
| Weight class | Heavyweight |
| nationality | Cuban |
| birthday | July 26, 1973 |
| place of birth | Havana |
| style | Legal display |
| size | 1.92 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 55 |
| Victories | 51 |
| Knockout victories | 38 |
| Defeats | 3 |
| No value | 1 |
Juan Carlos Gómez (born July 26, 1973 in Havana , Cuba ) is a Cuban heavyweight boxer and former professional world cruiserweight champion of the WBC .
amateur
Gómez was an amateur junior middleweight champion in Lima in 1990 . In 1994 and 1995 Gómez took part as a light heavyweight in the chemistry cup in Halle and lost in the final against Sven Ottke and Thomas Ulrich .
After the 1995 Chemistry Cup, he left the Cuban team and became a professional at Universum Box-Promotion in Hamburg .
Professional career
Gómez played his first professional fight in May 1995 in Hamburg . On February 21, 1998 he was in Argentina in his 27th fight by a points win against Marcelo Domínguez title holder of the WBC cruiserweight division. In the ring he benefited above all from his speed and the unfamiliar right-wing display for many opponents.
After ten successful title defenses, he resigned the title and rose to the heavyweight division in 2001. There he was, however, comparatively less successful. Due to Gómez's unsteady way of life, tensions arose with his boxing stable Universum Box-Promotion and finally the temporary separation. Gómez initially boxed in the USA . Although he was able to clearly beat the Turkish Sinan Şamil Sam on points in September 2003 , he then surprisingly lost by knockout in the first round against Yanqui Díaz (alias Yampier Azcuy), also a Cuban exile. This was the first loss of his professional career. He then returned to Universum in Germany.
After winning points against ex-world champion Oliver McCall in October 2005, he was tested positive for the drug cocaine in the doping test . As a result, his victory was denied, the Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer (BDB) imposed a one-year ban and Universum terminated the contractual relationship. He went back to the USA and received a license there in May 2006 and a placement in the WBC rankings.
On October 19, 2007, there was a rematch with the 42-year-old Oliver McCall, who Gómez won on points. Next, Gomez boxed in a WBC World Cup elimination match on September 27, 2008 against Wolodymyr Wirtschis and defeated the Ukrainian over twelve rounds on points. On March 21, 2009 he lost the world championship fight against Vitali Klitschko by technical knockout in the ninth round. On July 21, 2010, Gomez announced that he was returning to Universum boxing promotion.
Others
Gómez has a total of seven children, one of them (* 1997) together with the daughter of the universe trainer Fritz Sdunek . He is not still with any of the seven mothers; according to his own statement in November 2013, he did not pay maintenance for any of his children due to lack of funds. After the positive doping test, he was rebuilt by the Black Muslim community in America and converted to Islam .
Web links
- Juan Carlos Gómez in the BoxRec database
- Juan Carlos Gomez: Scandal Fighter from Cuba in Focus-Online from February 3, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ "My father just cast me out". In: Die Welt vom November 1, 2013, accessed on November 18, 2013
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Marcelo Domínguez | Cruiserweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) February 21, 1998 - November 3, 2001 |
Wayne Braithwaite |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gomez, Juan Carlos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban heavyweight boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Havana , Cuba |