Ángel Acosta
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| Real name | Ángel Acosta Gómez | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Tito | ||||||||||||
| Rated at | Light flyweight | ||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 64 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Puerto Rican | ||||||||||||
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October 8, 1990 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 17 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 16 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 16 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Ángel Acosta Gómez (born October 8, 1990) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who competes at light flyweight. Burdened by a necessitous upbringing, he was introduced to boxing at an early age by his brother, later adopting the sport as the means to help his family. As an amateur, Acosta fought out of the Barrio Obrero Boxing Club, climbing the ranks until he became the national champion in his division. This allowed him participation in the Puerto Rico national boxing team, with which he won the gold medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. Unable to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics after losing a series to youth national champion Jantony Ortiz, Acosta decided to become a professional.
After a brief tenure with Universal Promotions early in his career, he signed with Promociones Miguel Cotto. As a professional Acosta became regarded as a knockout artist, scoring fifteen consecutive knockouts to open his career in a streak that included two regional title wins, before disposing of Japhet Uutoni in the same fashion to secure a world title opportunity.
Acosta was born the seventh out of nine siblings. He was raised in a low-income working class area known as Barrio Obrero in the capital of San Juan. His family was among the poorest, a situation that Acosta channeled by becoming involved in scuffles both at school and in the streets. His older brother, amateur boxer Luis A. Gómez, noticed this behavior and took him to Barrio Obrero's gymnasium in late 1999, where he began training in the sport. While growing up, Acosta followed the careers of welterweight trio Félix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto and Daniel Santos while also admiring the technical prowess of Iván Calderón. During this timeframe, the family moved to a public housing project known as Las Gladiolas, where he met fellow boxer Félix Verdejo. The elder sibling managed Acosta throughout his early amateur career, but died suddenly in 2005. Another of his siblings also died, while the eldest left to live abroad. To support his mother, María del Carmen Gómez, he opted to dropout in seventh grade, intending to find a way to earn enough money to repair an inherited house and resume his studies.
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