Michael Gomez - Irish Boxing

On This Day: October 27th

2001: Belfast’s Eamonn Magee overcame awkward South African Matthews Zulu to defend his Commonwealth light welterweight title for a fourth

2003: Longford’s Michael Gomez rolled back the years to cause a huge shock and defeat British super featherweight champion Alex

2013: Carl Frampton stopped Frenchman Jeremy Parodi in the sixth with a hellacious body shot to retain his European super

2008: A glorious day in Poland saw Ireland claim six medals in the finals of the European Union championships. and

Back in 2003, Alex Arthur defended his British super featherweight title against Michael Gomez. Nobody gave Gomez a hope –

Bernard Dunne traveled to Manchester for RTE Radio One to talk to Michael Gomez about his turbulent life and his