Wilfredo Gomez vs Guadalupe Pintor One of the greatest fights in Bantamweight history Back in 1982, Wilfredo Gomez and Lupe Pintor helped write another thrilling chapter in the long saga of glorious violence that is the rivalry between Puerto Rico and Mexico. No list of the best fights between those two great pugilistic nations, nor of the most exciting clashes of the 1980s, is complete without this classic: Gomez vs Pintor, a barn-burner from the opening bell, testing both warriors to the utmos

WBC super-bantamweight champion Wilfredo Gomez extended his record to 14 straight knockouts in title defences at the Playboy Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City #OnThisDay in 1982 with a sixth-round stoppage of Juan Kid Meza. Meza had trouble breathing. "He was sucking air," said Meza's trainer, Jimmy Montoya of Los Angeles. "When you get hit in the groin as much as he did, it takes a lot out of you." Gomez said, through an interpreter, that he was "programmed to punch to the lower abdomen - the l