Arturo Gomez
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Luis Arturo Gomez Torres (born May 28, 1984 in Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Mexico
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) is a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 in the Lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 division and is the current WBC Mundo Hispano
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

 Lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 Champion.

Pro career

Arturo won a ten round decision over Sandro Marcos
Sandro Marcos
Sandro Marcos González is a Mexican professional boxer in the Welterweight division.-Pro career:In July of 2000, Marcos lost to Roberto Garcia, Garcia would go onto be the IBF Super Featherweight Champion...

 and then he lost to undefeated Mexican American
Mexican American
Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican descent. As of July 2009, Mexican Americans make up 10.3% of the United States' population with over 31,689,000 Americans listed as of Mexican ancestry. Mexican Americans comprise 66% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States...

 Miguel Angel Garcia
Miguel Angel Garcia
Miguel Ángel García Cortez is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division. García's the current USBA, WBO NABO, and NABF Featherweight champion. Miguel Ángel is trained by his father Eduardo Garcia and former World Champion, his brother Roberto García.-Early life:García is...

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WBC Mundo Hispano Championship

On July 17, 2010 Gomez beat Alexis Salinas to win the WBC Mundo Hispano
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...

 Lightweight
Lightweight
Light-weight is a class of athletes in a particular sport, based on their weight.-Professional boxing:The lightweight division is over 130 pounds and up to 135 pounds weight class in the sport of boxing....

 Championship.

He has gone the distance with Jose Emilio Perea
José Emilio Perea
José Emilio Perea Trujillo is an undefeated Mexican professional boxer in the Lightweight division. He's currently the WBC FECARBOX Lightweight Champion and was the WBC FECARBOX Super Featherweight Champion....

, Pedro Navarrete
Pedro Navarrete
Pedro Zenon Navarrete Montaño is a Mexican boxer in the Lightweight division. Pedro is the former WBC CABOFE Featherweight and WBC FECOMBOX Super Featherweight Champion.-WBC Mundo Hispano Championship:...

, Oscar Larios
Oscar Larios
Óscar Larios is a professional boxer from Mexico and former WBC Super Bantamweight and Featherweight champion. He is trained by Jose "Chepo" Reynoso.-Boxing career:...

, Victor Manuel Cayo, Juan Carlos Batista, Michael Farenas, and Jose Alfaro
José Alfaro
José Alfaro is a Nicaraguan boxer with a record of 20-3-0-1 who captured the vacant WBA lightweight title against Thai Prawet Singwancha in a split decision on December 29, 2007 in Bielefeld, Germany. He later lost that title on May 19, 2008 to Yusuke Kobori who knocked him out in only 3 rounds...

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