Acelino Freitas is back!

[Romulus9]

Spyder Wrote:

Romulus9 Wrote:

Method Wrote:My chick got pretty cool pic of me and him shaking hands, and then dude broke out his belt and made me hold it (which I did NOT want to do). I dunno, I just felt somethin like that is sacred...like askin to ride another man's Harley. Its not yours. You didn't earn it. You dont have the right. But he was insistent. He wanted me to put it on, but I refused. Those belts have a lot more heft to them than you'd think. They're not lite.

I get your point, really I do, but I also think that it's very cool that he was so insistent. It's a nice way to acknowledge the fans who recognize and support them.

I think it's sacrilege to go up and ask HIM to put the thing on. But for him to offer it, to go out of his way to present it? That's tremendous, and something I believe I'd have taken him up on.

And you're right. Those belts are a LOT heavier than they look (although the WBC belt tends to look like one of those plastic WWE belts that you can buy at K-Mart). The belts awarded to the state champions here in West Virginia are MUCH bigger and heavier than expected, and heavier than they appear. Hopefully one of the fighters I work with will be bringing one home at the end of March.

Weapon X?

Another fighter. I sort of 'consult' on some things from time to time.

He'd have won the damn thing last November but in one of those funny little things that happen in boxing, he came back to the corner after the first round, which he won, and said, "I can't feel my left arm."

Fantastic!

Then, the fight was stopped in an absolute horseshit TKO that mixed incompetence with the shady side of the sport that none of us like to fully acknowledge. Basically, a lackey referee that buddies up to the promoter (who is the promoter of the guy who was champion at the time) stopped the fight in a way that was unbelievable. I went crazy.

Rematch is set for March 31 in a venue about five minutes from my house.

Weapon X fights again on April 7 in Charleston, about 45 minutes north of here. THAT fight will not be in question. The opponent is either getting knocked straight the fuck out, or he's coming out of there battered, bleeding, bruised, and possibly with a stuttering problem that he didn't have when he stepped through the ropes. A message is going to be sent. Doing a nice behind the scenes documentary style look at the fight too, from the weigh-in to the backstage stuff to a ringside/corner view of the fight to the postfight stuff. Hopefully around an hour of stuff.

(Totally hijacked the thread but whatever. It's just Popo coming out of retirement to get beaten up for no reason.)