Acelino "Popó" Freitas

The scene is so weak that the legends have to comeback to breath life into it now?
Or is it so weak that legends have the confidence to batter these weak minded boys into manhood?
Is Larry Legend coming back to jab the HW division into submission? I hope so.

 

Hey IB.

I watched his fight with Carlos Rios last night. Quite an underwhelming showing truth be told, but I would be reluctant to draw any conclusions given the fact that Rios was in survival mode for large periods of the fight.

I have a few more to watch tonight, so I will report back tomorrow.

 

You called it 100%. Popó wanted to be a boxer though, for some reason he never liked his own style if that makes any sense..... in his interviews right after he hired Suarez he talks about how pleased he was that now he was slipping and jabbing and moving.... it didn't match him at all though, in his fight with Corrales you see a confusing boxing style, clearly.

Many people criticized him here and everywhere for quitting, which is fair, but in the next days it was revealed (on a footnote in a newspaper) that he had a brain concussion in the Corrales fight, and it wasn't like your regular thing, so after knowing that I kinda feel like the criticism was not deserved too much....

(I am having a deja vu here, I probably said this before around these boards).

 

Is he ? I didn't know, feel like they have to induct Corrales and Castillo first I guess....

 

His rise to fame was his fight with Anatoly Alexandrov, the russian. It was broadcasted in mainstream Tv here... He was a underdog in that and the way he wins was pretty great.

 

I won't post his recent "fights" with youtubers, you can type on youtube and you can see, he fought some guy that is famous on social media or something, it was a joke, fun to watch Popó knock the guy out...

This below is not against a youtuber though, it isn´t against a boxer either, but at least Pelé Landi was a pro MMA fighter and a pro kickboxer with dozens of pro fights... of course, he is old and shot but still...

Pelé beat guys like Matt Hughes and Pat Miletich in MMA, for example....
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cz9FBz6ncbM
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Anyway, back to serious Boxing....... this fight below was great too.

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I watched this fight today, Vic. A genuinely scary knockout that saw Alexandrov leave the ring on a stretcher and needing a respirator.

@IntentionalButt how would you describe Popo as a fighter? I've watched around 5-6 of his fights now and what stands out the most for me is that he was clearly an incredible athlete. He was very light on his feet and could manoeuvre around the ring with ease. Do you think there is any truth in the suggestion that Oscar Suarez made him a worse fighter or did that union just happen to coincide with him fighting better competition? Also, do we consider Freitas as big a puncher as Rosario at 130? I think his knockout record flatters him a little bit if we are talking about pure one punch power.

 

I remember watching him spark out Jones as a kid.

 

Could you go into a bit more detail about what you think Popo's strengths and weaknesses were mate?

I really enjoyed his fight with Barrios. The right hand he landed on the Argentine at the end of round 11 has to be one of the most devastatingly flush shots I've ever seen land. Credit to Barrios, he had taken the right hands quite well up until that point, but he just walked right into that one and it completely took his legs away. Devastating shot. He could have been given 5 minutes to recover and it wouldn't have mattered.