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Total Fights | 43 |
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Wins | 41 |
Losses | 2 |
Draws | 0 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 4 |
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Title Defenses | 10 |
Title-Fight KOs | 9 |
KO Wins | 34 |
KO Losses | 2 |
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sFT w1 d3 | sFT w1 d10 |
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In a professional boxing career spanning 22 years and three months, Acelino Freitas fought 43 times with 41 wins and 2 losses.
Freitas retired from professional boxing with a record of 41-2, which included four world-title wins and 10 successful title defense fights at the super-featherweight weight division. He had a 79.1% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 34 of his total 43 fights being knockout wins, nine of which were in title fights. Freitas lost twice via knockout, both of them in title fights.
His last fight was a 8-round unanimous decision victory over Gabriel Martinez on November 11, 2017.
Some of Freitas' best fights and notable victories include wins over Joel Casamayor, Juan Carlos RamĂrez, Orlando Soto, Lemuel Nelson, Javier Jáuregui, Anthony Martinez, and Anatoly Alexandrov.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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43 | Nov 11, 2017 | 42 | Gabriel Martinez | Win | UD |
42 | Aug 15, 2015 | 39 | Mateo Damian Veron | Win | TKO3 |
41 | Jun 2, 2012 | 36 | Michael Oliveira | Win | TKO9 |
40 | Apr 28, 2007 | 31 | Juan DĂaz | Loss * | RTD8 |
39 | Apr 29, 2006 | 30 | Zahir Raheem | Win * | SD |
38 | Jul 16, 2005 | 29 | Fabian Salazar | Win | KO1 |
37 | Dec 11, 2004 | 29 | David Saucedo | Win | UD |
36 | Aug 7, 2004 | 28 | Diego Corrales | Loss * | TKO10 |
35 | Jan 3, 2004 | 28 | Artur Grigorian | Win * | UD |
34 | Aug 9, 2003 | 27 | Jorge Rodrigo Barrios | Win * | TKO12 |
33 | Mar 15, 2003 | 27 | Juan Carlos RamĂrez | Win * | TKO4 |
32 | Aug 3, 2002 | 26 | Daniel Attah | Win * | UD |
31 | Jan 12, 2002 | 26 | Joel Casamayor | Win * | UD |
30 | Sep 29, 2001 | 26 | Alfred Kotey | Win | UD |
29 | Jan 27, 2001 | 25 | Orlando Soto | Win * | KO1 |
28 | Dec 16, 2000 | 25 | Daniel Alicea | Win | TKO1 |
27 | Sep 23, 2000 | 25 | Carlos Rios | Win * | TKO9 |
26 | Jun 10, 2000 | 24 | Lemuel Nelson | Win * | TKO2 |
25 | Mar 18, 2000 | 24 | Javier Jáuregui | Win * | KO1 |
24 | Jan 15, 2000 | 24 | Barry Jones | Win * | TKO8 |
23 | Dec 18, 1999 | 24 | Claudio Victor Martinet | Win | KO3 |
22 | Oct 26, 1999 | 24 | Anthony Martinez | Win * | TKO2 |
21 | Aug 7, 1999 | 23 | Anatoly Alexandrov | Win * | KO1 |
20 | Apr 2, 1999 | 23 | Juan Angel Macias | Win | KO8 |
19 | Dec 19, 1998 | 23 | Peter Buckley | Win | RTD3 |
18 | Oct 16, 1998 | 23 | Jose Luis Montes | Win | TKO1 |
17 | Sep 15, 1998 | 22 | Francisco Tomas Da Cruz | Win | TKO2 |
16 | Aug 14, 1998 | 22 | Juan Gutierrez | Win | TKO1 |
15 | Jun 8, 1998 | 22 | Rafael Oliveira | Win | KO3 |
14 | May 29, 1998 | 22 | Rildo José Oliveira | Win | TKO1 |
13 | Nov 19, 1997 | 22 | Gustavo Rodolfo Sayaavedra | Win | KO1 |
12 | Sep 2, 1997 | 21 | Edwin Vazquez | Win | TKO7 |
11 | Jun 27, 1997 | 21 | Hilario Guzman | Win | TKO8 |
10 | May 10, 1997 | 21 | Johnny Montantes | Win | TKO1 |
9 | Apr 22, 1997 | 21 | Arcelio Diaz | Win | TKO1 |
8 | Mar 8, 1997 | 21 | Antonio Maria Do Nascimento | Win | KO2 |
7 | Feb 1, 1997 | 21 | Hamilton Cerqueira | Win | KO4 |
6 | Aug 16, 1996 | 20 | Gutemberg Ferreira | Win | KO2 |
5 | Apr 2, 1996 | 20 | Ralph Riveros | Win | KO2 |
4 | Nov 14, 1995 | 20 | Marco De Lima | Win | TKO3 |
3 | Sep 18, 1995 | 19 | Manoel Oliveira da Cruz | Win | KO2 |
2 | Aug 14, 1995 | 19 | Valdevino Monteiro | Win | KO1 |
1 | Jul 14, 1995 | 19 | Jose Adriano Soares | Win | KO1 |
* World-title fight
Acelino Freitas (Popó) is a 48-year old retired Brazilian professional boxer. He was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil on September 21, 1975. He is a former two-weight-class world champion. His professional boxing career spanned more than 22 years — from 1995 to 2017.
Freitas made his professional boxing debut against Jose Adriano Soares at the age of 19 on July 14, 1995, defeating Soares via 1st round KO. He went on to win 34 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 30 wins via stoppage.
He had his first world title fight at the age of 23 on August 7, 1999 after 20 professional fights, against Anatoly Alexandrov for the super-featherweight WBO title. He defeated Alexandrov via 1st round KO to become the super-featherweight champion of the world.
Acelino Freitas was a one-time unified super-featherweight world champion, and has won four world titles at two weight classes. For all the details about Freitas' world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Freitas had a total of two losses in his professional boxing career.
His last professional fight was a non-title bout against Gabriel Martinez on November 11, 2017. Freitas won the fight via 8 round unanimous decision. It's been 6 years, 4 months, and 17 days since this fight.
Freitas had a total of 15 world-title fights, which includes winning four world titles and 10 successful title defenses. He won 13 of these fights and lost two.
Acelino Freitas fought for world titles in five fights and won four of these fights, winning one of them via way of stoppage. In total, he won four belts across two weight classes.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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Apr 29, 2006 | Zahir Raheem | Lightweight | WBO* | SD |
Jan 3, 2004 | Artur Grigorian | Lightweight | WBO | UD |
Jan 12, 2002^ | Joel Casamayor | Super-featherweight | WBA (Super) | UD |
Aug 7, 1999 | Anatoly Alexandrov | Super-featherweight | WBO | KO |
Acelino Freitas had 12 world-title defense fights across two weight classes — super-featherweight (x10) and lightweight (x2). He won 10 of them and lost two times.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Aug 9, 2003 | Jorge Rodrigo Barrios | Super-featherweight | WBA (Unified), WBO | TKO |
Mar 15, 2003 | Juan Carlos RamĂrez | Super-featherweight | WBA (Unified), WBO | TKO |
Aug 3, 2002 | Daniel Attah | Super-featherweight | WBA (Super), WBO | UD |
Jan 12, 2002^ | Joel Casamayor | Super-featherweight | WBO | UD |
Jan 27, 2001 | Orlando Soto | Super-featherweight | WBO | KO |
Sep 23, 2000 | Carlos Rios | Super-featherweight | WBO | TKO |
Jun 10, 2000 | Lemuel Nelson | Super-featherweight | WBO | TKO |
Mar 18, 2000 | Javier Jáuregui | Super-featherweight | WBO | KO |
Jan 15, 2000 | Barry Jones | Super-featherweight | WBO | TKO |
Oct 26, 1999 | Anthony Martinez | Super-featherweight | WBO | TKO |
Acelino Freitas lost two world-title defense fights, and lost a total of two titles in these fights.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Apr 28, 2007 | Juan DĂaz | Lightweight | WBO | RTD |
Aug 7, 2004 | Diego Corrales | Lightweight | WBO | TKO |
Freitas fought a total of 43 times during his professional career, which includes 15 world-title fights at two weight divisions. He was among the very best of his generation and put on some great performances in his fights. These seven fights are the highlight of his career.
August 7, 1999: Freitas wins his first world title by defeating Anatoly Alexandrov via 1st round KO. He is now the WBO super-featherweight world champion.
October 26, 1999: Freitas successfully defends the WBO super-featherweight title against Anthony Martinez, winning the fight via 2nd round TKO.
March 18, 2000: Freitas successfully defends the WBO super-featherweight title against Javier Jáuregui, winning the fight via 1st round KO.
June 10, 2000: Freitas successfully defends the WBO super-featherweight title against Lemuel Nelson, winning the fight via 2nd round TKO.
January 27, 2001: Freitas successfully defends the WBO super-featherweight title against Orlando Soto, winning the fight via 1st round KO.
January 12, 2002: Freitas becomes a unified super-featherweight world champion by beating Joel Casamayor via 12 round unanimous decision. He now holds the WBO and WBA (Super) super-featherweight world-champion belts.
March 15, 2003: Freitas successfully defends the WBA (Unified) and WBO super-featherweight titles against Juan Carlos RamĂrez, winning the fight via 4th round TKO.
Freitas knocked out 34 of his 43 opponents. By his last fight, his KO ratio was at 79.1%. Of his total 41 wins, 34 of them were via KO (82.9%).
Freitas' first world-title win was the WBO belt at super-featherweight. He defeated Anatoly Alexandrov via 1 round KO to win the title.
Freitas won four world titles at two weight classes.
Freitas had a total of 12 title defense fights. He was successful 10 times and lost two times.