Miguel ''Aguacerito'' Acosta Thread.

Acosta was supposed to fight YESTERDAY.

 

Updated, he's now apparently back out in Maturin on the 10th of next month.

No opponent though, so I'm not holding my breath this time.

 

I know, it was made at like a day's notice too.

 

I'm going to study Abril intensely now.

Oh my days, October 22nd:

Donaire-Narvaez
Booth-Quigg
Acosta-Abril
Cermeno-Avalos(WOW!)
Huck, Britsch and Bursak too.

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, good.

 

He is indeed that guy who won two fights that shall not be spoken of.

I'm very surprised that this appears to have been signed, and I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't actually happen. Avalos was being brought up by Showtime with a lot of hype behind him. Tarver, Farhood and the likes were saying that he defined the next generation of ShowBox fighters. He was being heavily, heavily backed for such a young kid(still only 21).

He was looking pretty good to be fair to the guy, albeit against less than stellar opposition. He's all-action basically, just looks to get the guy out of there, with a particularly explosive right hand. I suppose what distinguished him from the other ''prospects'' was the variety he appeared to have in his punching arsenal. When he was against guys who would just stand in front of him he looked great, because he wouldn't just mow through them, he'd stand to the side, BOOM, left to the body, shift, BOOM, right uppercut up top from the other side.

It almost made the level of opposition seem irrelevant. I remember watching him against a guy called Pacheco or something and thinking that he did look the goods, the way he was able to keep his cool and pick his shots the way he did and break the guy down, it was very impressive.

And of course it all came tumbling down against a guy that wouldn't do everything he wanted him to do in Chris Martin. What Avalos likes is a guy who stands there to get pummeled, he doesn't like movers(Martin), or guy that'll pressure him(Cermeno). Martin countered him at will, and really highlighted the fact that Avalos is awful defensively. Avalos was ragged when he wasn't gifted time to think and place his punches, and just trudged forward eating leather. He lost a split decision(despite CLEARLY being defeated) and Showtime have obviously lost a lotta' faith in him.

You know what you're getting with Cermeno, he's not the physical presence he was at bantam but he'll still pressure intensely and bring out many not so subtle dirty tricks. As shown in both Mijares fights, he loves a good old blatant shot to the spinal cord, often goes south of the waistline, the usual really.

He's not what he looked like he could've been post-Mijares though, as you know being outpointed by Terrazas, Moreno and being outsmarted and battered by Montiel, it's an intriguing encounter IMO. Avalos isn't a particularly great boxer not defender, so how he copes with a Nehomar who we don't know how much he has left is interesting.

Will Avalos come of age, or will Cermeno be really past it, in the case of an Avalos victory, or is Cermeno's style just that bad for Chris, and will he be broken down and roughed up? He'll have to hope that the Venezuela is shot, because he isn't at the level of a Terrazas, who was still pushed awfully close by what we can only assume will be the same version of Nehomar, or else he's undergone a bewildering degree of refinement, which frankly I've never seen anything to suggest he's capable of.

I haven't really seen him post-Martin though, so I'm not able to inform you whether it's a scenario where he's being fed to the wolves, or whether he's shown that he can pull this off with significant improvement.