By Scott Gilfoid: Former lightweight Silver medalist from the 2004 Olympic Games Amir Khan will be taking on Michael Gomez (35-8m 24 KOs) on June 21, at the NIA, in Birmingham, England. Though some people are calling this the stiffest test of the 21 year-old Khan’s three year professional career, many see it as otherwise, feeling that Gomez, 30, a former BBBofC British super featherweight champion, is well past his prime now and can offer up little resistance to the talented Khan. To be sure, Gomez has lost three out of his last six fights, with all three losses coming by knockout.
It would perhaps be excusable if they were all against top flight opposition, but the names Peter McDonagh (7-11) and Javier Osvaldo Alvarez would seem to suggest that Gomez has slipped a lot from his perch near the top of the British boxing scene that he held in 2003. Funny how much things change in five years. It was that long ago, in 2003, when Gomez pulled off the best victory of his career, a 5th round TKO of Alex Arthur. It was Gomez at his best, and he followed it up in the next year with a 6th round stoppage of the hard-punching Leva Kirakosyan. Unfortunately for Gomez, that was pretty much was the end of his good fortunes, for he would lose to the relatively known Osvaldo by a sixth round TKO in early 2005.