Frankie Gomez came in 6.5 pounds overweight for his fight with Humberto Soto. The fight was subsequently cancelled. One of the most unprofessional things a fighter can do is to come in overweight. To come in this overweight is inexcusable.
This would have been the biggest stage in the career of Frankie Gomez. A co-main event in Minute Maid Park on HBO and he blew it because he chose not to make weight.
"There's no fight. We're going to pull it," Golden Boy vice president Eric Gomez, no relation to Frankie, said in an impromptu address to a few media members at the weigh-in. "[Gomez] is not in condition to fight. Both fighters can get hurt. We're not doctors, but we don't want to take a risk. Frankie is in bad shape. He can't lose any more weight. Soto wants him to lose a little more. He can't do it. Frankie is dry."
"We are very disgusted, very upset," Eric Gomez said. "This spot, this position in between those two fights, was a golden ticket. We could have put on any fighter we wanted. If we would've known two weeks ago that he was sick and not responsive, that he was really heavy and wasn't going to make weight, we would've considered maybe doing something else. We've got a lot of young prospects. We have at least 20 other fighters that would've killed to be in that spot."
Gomez was paid by Golden Boy Promotions a signing bonus when he turned pro of $400,000 in 2010. It was said that neither fighter will be paid for this, which is really unfortunate for Soto, who came in at 142.5, easily made weight on the re-negotiated limit.
