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Tonight from the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV, victorious lightweight contender Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios (27-0-1, 19 KOs) seized the WBA lightweight concern title by movement powerful endorse Miguel Acosta (28-4-2, 22 KOs) via a brawny in the ordinal ammo of a regular twelve-round affair.

 

During the prototypal quaternary rounds, Acosta looked every bit worthy of existence a concern titleholder in his U.S. debut, as he touched intelligently and frustrated Rios by fighting him to the lick with much quicker safekeeping and construction hornlike combinations throughout. 

 

The prototypal digit rounds were all Miguel Acosta, who utilised meliorate boxing skills and a compounding of speed and noesis to take charge. 

 

Then towards the end of the third ammo with Brandon Rios imperative Miguel Acosta against the ropes, the endorse stood his connector and landed a dowse correct assistance to the utter of the competition that stopped him departed in his tracks.  Rios was hurt but sustained lowercase boost penalisation cod to the hurried sound of the bell to end the frame.

 

In the fourth round, sensing Rios haw still be buzzing from the correct assistance he enwrapped to end the third, Miguel Acosta went on the offensive.  Landing virtually everything in the book, Acosta pressed his plus and actually backed the competition up for the prototypal instance in the fight.

 

The heavier safekeeping and constant push of Rios began attractive a sound on Acosta in the ordinal after his brawny advise in the preceding quaternary rounds.  He was unable to advise as much, and as a result, found himself on the ropes ofttimes where he began absorbing whatever real punishment.

 

Finding himself more on the exclusive during the sixth, the competition was able to realty a mitt hook, mitt poking compounding that floored the endorse and unsealed a revilement low his correct eye.  Although Acosta would easily vex the calculate and fisticuffs valiantly the rest of the way, this was a major turning saucer for Rios in the match.

 

After Miguel Acosta responded well in the seventh round, Brandon Rios halted the champion’s strength in the eighth by dropping him again, this instance with a decent mitt hook.  Acosta easily vex the calculate and didn’t seem hurt, but Rios bagged another 10-8 ammo and probable pulled aweigh on the judges’ scorecards at that saucer in the fight.

 

Following a combative ordinal round, Brandon Rios put an stressed end to the fisticuffs by housing Miguel Acosta in his possess crossway and getting him with a program of correct safekeeping that knocked the endorse out cold.  As presently as Acosta hit the canvas, his crossway men rushed to his attention and critic Joe Cortez halted the fight.

 

The instance was 1:14 of the ordinal ammo at the instance of stoppage.  

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