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Barely five weeks ago, Alfonso Gomez wasn’t thinking about Miguel Cotto. He was thinking about dying.
Well along in his preparation for Saturday night’s WBA welterweight title fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City with the undefeated Cotto, Gomez began to feel tired and run down. The harder he worked the worse he felt until he finally found himself hospitalized in California. That would be the beginning of what has become another test of his will and his faith in himself, a test whose final exam will come Saturday night.
“At first the doctors believed I had pancreatitis,’’ Gomez said this week while relaxing in a Manhattan hotel room before his journey to the Jersey shore. “The doctors told my family I had a blood clot in my pancreas and that if it began to move I could die. My father got real sick after he heard that and I got really depressed.
“My mental state went down. It brought all my defenses down, mentally and physically. I thought about pulling out of the fight but I was afraid if I let it go it might not come again. It was a bad week.’’
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxin...as-near-death/
Well along in his preparation for Saturday night’s WBA welterweight title fight at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City with the undefeated Cotto, Gomez began to feel tired and run down. The harder he worked the worse he felt until he finally found himself hospitalized in California. That would be the beginning of what has become another test of his will and his faith in himself, a test whose final exam will come Saturday night.
“At first the doctors believed I had pancreatitis,’’ Gomez said this week while relaxing in a Manhattan hotel room before his journey to the Jersey shore. “The doctors told my family I had a blood clot in my pancreas and that if it began to move I could die. My father got real sick after he heard that and I got really depressed.
“My mental state went down. It brought all my defenses down, mentally and physically. I thought about pulling out of the fight but I was afraid if I let it go it might not come again. It was a bad week.’’
http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxin...as-near-death/
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