Alfonso Gomez
| Alfonso Gómez | |
|---|---|
| Statistics | |
| Real name | Alfonso Salvador Gómez Becerra |
| Rated at |
Light middleweight Welterweight Light welterweight |
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
| Reach | 69 in (175 cm) |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Born |
October 28, 1980 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 33 |
| Wins | 25 |
| Wins by KO | 12 |
| Losses | 6 |
| Draws | 2 |
Alfonso Salvador Gómez Becerra (born October 28, 1980), best known as Alfonso Gómez, is a Mexican professional boxer. He was a competitor on the reality TV show The Contender, where he finished third out of sixteen fighters.
Gómez was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, but his parents subsequently moved to the city of Napa, California where he graduated in 1998 from Napa High and (later) Tustin, California, partly so as to enable Alfonso to go to college and continue boxing. He had started boxing at age 8, and had an amateur record of 80 wins and 10 losses. He was managed along the way by his father, an ex-boxer himself. He has two brothers, Jesus and Robb, and is part of a band with them called Hy3rid. He is married to Dulce, they have one daughter Heidi Luna.
Coming off a strong amateur career where he represented Mexico in the quarterfinals of the 2000 Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the Americas, Alfonso Gomez turned pro in 2001, and was used by his first few managers as a stepping stone fighter for hotter-looking prospects. In his second pro fight he was lied to by a former manager as to his opponent's record and matched against Ishe Smith, who would later be his roommate on the reality TV show The Contender. In a competitive four round fight, Ishe won by UD in his hometown based on a low blow in the 3rd round of their fight from Alfonso which was incorrectly ruled (after Ishe had been cautioned for the same infraction) and Alfonso suffered a crucial point deduction which cost him the fight. He would later be matched up with his rival Jesse Feliciano in a tough trilogy, as well as several other fighters with strong or undefeated records, defeating most of them, earning him the nickname, "The Executioner of the Undefeated" from one newspaper.
In 2004, Alfonso got on the boxing reality TV show The Contender as an alternate for a chance to win one million dollars, though he had to fight above his natural weight(Welterweight) at Middleweight due to the show's weight class choice. On the show, he was placed on the West Coast team (as was Ishe Smith) and he challenged the highly ranked Peter Manfredo in the first fight in a surprising move after Joey Gilbert seemed reluctant to take the first fight of the show against the undersized Jeff Fraza. With the exception of Ishe and Alfonso himself, both teams were skeptical as to Alfonso's chances, but Alfonso beat the then-undefeated Rhode Islander in a shocking fight where he outhustled, outboxed, and outfought Manfredo over five rounds, sending him home, though Peter was brought back later on the show due to Jeff Fraza contracting a case of chicken pox.
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