Any word on Miguel Acosta's next fight??

Agreed, I'm an Acosta fan after that fight. The way he sat down and fired bombs in combination was awesome, he just ran out of gas under Rios's pressure.

Luckily there are a bunch of great fights to be made at '35 right now. I'd like to see him try and solve Vasquez.

 

I'm surprised it took the loss to Rios to make people really start following Acosta.

His performance against Antillon was an eye-opener as well. Maybe it's just that fewer people saw it? :conf

 

Great fight with Paulus Moses too who was rated quite highly around the time Acosta beat him.

 

If I recall, the Antillon-Acosta PPV was the only big boxing card televised that Saturday night. It was originally supposed to be part of the Latin Fury series headed up by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., but he wound up dropping out on a couple days' notice or something like that. So the main event became Antillon-Acosta, which was a million times better than Chavez vs. some bum would have been. :good Those tend to be a cheaper variety of PPV, too (and rightfully so, as the production value is so damn ghetto). It was probably like $25-30 or so. Well spent, it turns out. Most of those Chavez shows were busts, though.

Marquez-Mayweather at a fair weight (ie not above either man's ceiling in Marquez's case or at a point where one has to drain down in Mayweather's case) is a technician's wet dream! :deal

 

I watched the Antillon fight on youtube and was impressed, but Antillon was following him around and just begging to get hit. The KO was nice but it didn't totally grab me. Couldn't find the Moses fight.

Sometimes it takes a high profile, compelling loss to become a star. I'm amazed how much more respect people have for Katsidis now than they did two and three years ago.

 

An Acosta thread and nobody mentions me?

 

I only tend to mention you in Mijares threads (it is Mijares you are obsessed with right?)

 

Has there been Mijares threads? Why wasn't I told? And yes, I have a severe case of man-love for Cristian bordering on insanity.

 

He isn't as Mijares-obsessed as I am.

Amsterdam wasn't as Mijares-obsessed as I am.

I am the original Mijares nuthugger on ESB! :cus

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When you have to call yourself the original at something, it doesn't bode well IB.

 

Well, research shows that "some bum" was Jason LeHoullier...who got a rescheduled date with Chavez just two months later on the very next Latin Fury PPV. Chavez sparked him in two minutes. :rofl What a horrible rip-off of a main event that would have been.

My research also turned up some of my own posts from the RBR that night (which was done by RightCross, back when he was the RBR king. Note: He still is the king emeritus in my view, I'm just keeping the throne warm until he or Viscount Arriba decide to return to regular action :bowdown). Antillon vs. Acosta actually wasn't a very aesthetically pleasing fight, and far from a FOTY. It was pretty damn ugly. Urbano fought like a MORON. Still, he was a very well regarded prospect at the time and got badly owned by Acosta. It ought to have been a star-making effort, but Acosta probably did suffer from a majority of boxing fans boycotting the Latin Fury bull**** by that point.

 

Looks like jpab needs a new fighter to idolise and be all individual over, I propose Mzonke Fana.

 

I AM THE CORN FLAKES!!!!!




(everyone knows what i mean by that, right? original and best? works without explanation?)