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Michael Gomez - the irish mexican

wendell borton · 2014-07-05 15:47:34

Heard this great, but heart-breaking, documentary on radio1 today by Bernard dunne about the Longford born professional boxer. Despite being born on the side of the road and having a troubled upbringing he went on to win numerous titles. But unfortunately trouble was never far away, drink and drugs, as well as a…

05-07-2014 3:47pm

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Heard this great, but heart-breaking, documentary on radio1 today by Bernard dunne about the Longford born professional boxer. Despite being born on the side of the road and having a troubled upbringing he went on to win numerous titles.

But unfortunately trouble was never far away, drink and drugs, as well as a manslaughter charge and being dead for 48sec, blighted his career.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/documentary-maker-bernard-dunne.html

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Yep. Remember him from his prime years. A real scrapper, don't think I ever saw another fighter walk into a ring as up for it as he usually was.

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