[4] He attended Los Angeles City College, where he played football as a fullback.

Gomez also held the NWA Texas Tag Team Championship on ten occasions between 1955 and 1961 and the Texas-version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship five times between 1958 and 1961.

Gomez and Stevens went on to wrestle in a series of matches that sold-out the Cow Palace and the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena.

[2] Gomez also held the AWA World Tag Team Championship on three occasions between 1963 and 1968 and the San Francisco version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship on seven occasions between 1963 and 1977.

In the late-1960s, Gomez began competing for the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based American Wrestling Association.

In November 1975, he defeated Ox Baker for the WWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Gomez also won the WWA World Tag Team Championship with Wilbur Snyder in 1974 and 1978.