Miguel ''Aguacerito'' Acosta Thread.

It's been a few hours now. What do you think, Flea? Out of the world title picture for good?

 

How many examples of fighters can you think of who have turned their career back around in circumstances like this compared to those who haven't? :think

 

I don't see where it's on Youtube or any other public upload space, so here's my play by play for those slow-down-and-watch-the-scene-of-the-car-crash types with a morbid curiosity to know what happened in greater detail:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352579

Even the rounds I gave Miguel (2, 3, 8, & 9) were messy and close enough to have possibly swung the other way. He never put a flourish on any one, and his once-composed "boxing" was a diaper filled to bursting from the start.

 

Jorge Arce and Erik Morales had the entire world convinced they were shot beyond all hope for a few years - up until very recently, in both cases. Then came the upsets against Vazquez and Maidana (although Maidana technically won, but Morales' eye-opening performance still makes it an upset).

I think Acosta is possibly even further gone than they were during their Dark Years. :verysad

Moreover, Arce & Morales have always had stellar punch resistance - so even when they were looking poor and struggling with/losing to opponents well below their prime caliber they weren't getting embarrassed and KTFO (just befuddled and outboxed). Acosta, needless to say, has not always had stellar - or even average - punch resistance. He's always worn the scarlet C, of being a bit chinny. It's just that he was such a fluid and expert boxer he could usually avoid the big bombs...and when they landed he had the heart to refuse to stay down.

Now, his boxing is gone...and based on some of his behaviours against Abril, it seems even his heart is gone. All that leaves is that fissured chin. Ill portent if he does trod on.

 

Enzo coming back to capture the Euro belt after getting taken out by Afolabi then Lebedev?

 

Yeah, but...from Kotlobay.

...and the stooges he beat to get the crack? :!:


I don't think Acosta is going to luck out and get such an easy path to another title. His division is too deep.

He might not be top 20 h2h anymore (which is freaking bananas, because most still probably had him at an optimistic top 3 even after the Rios loss...but before last night).

 

Duran was written off 2 or 3 times and came back to be world champion. He's a special case obviously though

Barrera on a smaller scale, after Junior Jones sine people felt he had already peaked at a young age. Didnt do too bad after

 

Mijares has come back to re-stabilise himself after losses to Vic and too to the unspoken (if 'Pab does have a change of heart and come on here to seek solace I don't want him to see his name and finally jump off the cliff).

And IB, got sidetracked atsch (Bazooka Limon Vs Rolando Navarette, so give me a free pass, eh? ;-)) am going to watch it NOW :deal

 

Very obvious one here but Roberto duran.

Edit forgot tommy o c mentioned him.

Id probably give ali a big shout also.

 

Kuniaki Shibata.

 

Acosta is done IMO. Too small for Lightweight and, if it wasn't after Rios than now his confidence will be completely shot, he has gone from a guy who wasn't that durable, to a guy that is downright vulnerable.

Even if he moved down to avoid the bigger guys, at his age the cut isn't going to help him, and there are fighters that punch hard enough at 130 to get him out of there IMO.

He looked bothered whenever Abril landed clean, and made him look like Hearns in the 10th. How he got up from that I don't know, but he looked a shadow of his former self.

 

It's ****in' spastic talk.

 

Deffo'. Surviving by being completely negative? That's hardly successful despite a lot of people (including myself) favouring Donaire to get it done in style.

Narvaez showed nothing of himself other than his intelligent defence, which means nothing if it isn't helping you to get any work of your own off.