1. Acelino Freitas is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBO super featherweight title from 1999 to 2004, the WBA super featherweight title from 2002 to 2004, and the WBO lightweight title twice between 2004 and 2007.
19 Facts About Acelino Freitas
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Acelino Freitas had a difficult childhood, often sleeping on a sandy floor at his house.
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Acelino Freitas was heavily influenced by his father and brothers, especially Luis Claudio Freitas.
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Acelino Freitas competed for his native country and won a lightweight silver medal at the Pan American Games 1995 in Mar del Plata.
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Between 1997 and 1998, Acelino Freitas won four more fights and then took on Francisco Tomas Da Cruz, a former world title challenger of Julio Cesar Chavez.
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Acelino Freitas handled Da Cruz with a knockout in two rounds and then added three more knockout wins before getting his first world title shot.
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Acelino Freitas then made five defenses of his world title and had one non-title bout, all of which ended in knockout wins.
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Acelino Freitas then went to London and took only 45 seconds to stop Daniel Alicea in another non-title affair.
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Acelino Freitas then beat the former world champion: Al Kotey, the brother of David 'Poison' Kotei, by a ten-round decision.
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On January 12,2002, Acelino Freitas decided to sign for a unification bout with the WBA world champion, Joel Casamayor, a Cuban refugee who resides in Florida.
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Acelino Freitas then retained the title in Chicago with a fourth-round knockout of Juan Carlos Ramirez.
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Acelino Freitas was floored in rounds eight and eleven, but retaliated with a knockdown of his own towards the end of the eleventh, and ended up retaining the title by knockout in round twelve.
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Acelino Freitas began 2004 by winning a 12-round unanimous decision over Artur Grigorian on January 4, to become the WBO's world Lightweight champion.
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Acelino Freitas announced his retirement as a professional boxer on October 4,2006.
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Acelino Freitas has fought three times since his last loss, all wins against inferior competition and all in South America.
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Acelino Freitas has been able to help his family financially and has built a soccer field in his mansion, allowing him to practice his second favorite sport.
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Acelino Freitas' married wife Eliana Guimaraes in 2001, they divorced in 2003.
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Acelino Freitas was Secretary of Sports in Salvador and is member of Brazilian Republican Party.
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In 2024, Acelino Freitas performed cosplayed as chimarrao in the reality singing competition The Masked Singer Brasil.