Oscar De La Hoya was on Instagram live earlier today, when Jamel Herring commented that “Frankie Gomez is returning. You heard it first here”. As I stated a few months ago, Frankie Gomez has been seen running and shadow boxing around the hood the last few months @ 28 yrs old he’s still young enough to make a comeback and get back in the picture @ welterweight.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fLg9NxftL64
I saw that too hope it’s true had really high hopes for him till he got caught up!
Yup, Frankie had all the tools to become a top contender @ 140 or 147 lbs. Unfortunately, the hood lifestyle caught up to him. If Frankie does return it might be for the best for him to leave Freddie Roach and join RGBA. Jose Ramirez is Gomez former stablemate @ Wild Card Gym who now trains with Robert Garcia who has the best sparring in the game especially @ 147 w/t Vergil Ortiz, Josesito Lopez, Mikey Garcia, and Jose Ramirez
More mature now! I was very high on Frankie Gomez as well as Jose Benavidez from their Amateurs days so I would love to see him comeback and live up to his Potential that would be a great story
This mofo been gone 4.5yrs. Wow it don't seem like it's been THAT long.
Cool comeback story if he can do it, but this guy never reallllllllly got past the prospect stage so idk if he can hang with legit contenders still or if he has the drive to stick with boxing when things get tough. Odds are he'll quit again I'd imagine if this is real news.
Herring confirmed Frankie’s return to boxing. Don’t see any reason why he would lie about that especially since they known each other from the US Olympic team trials back in the day. Also, a couple of my boys have seen Frankie training around the tire shop he owns in East Los Angeles. As far as talent goes, Frankie holds wins against Adrian Granados and Mauricio Herrera when he was still a legit contender, so the talent is there just the discipline is what needs work.
I mean, I heard rumors of him beating up fighters on the p4p list from some preeeeetty credible sources.
Freddie Roach was quoted saying he was the best talent/potential he's ever trained as a fighter. Apparently had a mind of his own and with genius boxing IQ.
He was a great prospect, Seen him pick apart herrera and that one NY kid who been stabbed that fought judah. but its been years since Gomez has been active so lets wait and see he might come back and be a dud.