George Acosta beats Gadwin Rosa in Boxeo Telemundo headliner

Junior light-weight George Acosta outboxed Gadwin Rosa over 10 rounds, profitable by unanimous determination, Friday evening, at Osceola Heritage Park, in Kissimmee, Florida.

Scores have been 96-94, 97-93 and 98-92 for Acosta, who improves to 12-1 with 1 knockout.

It was a fast turnaround for Acosta, who most just lately fought on April 18, defeating journeyman Edgar Ramirez by unanimous determination, in Corona, California, not removed from his hometown of Whittier.

Rosa (11-2, 9 KOs), initially from Puerto Rico and now residing in Ocala, Florida, had not fought since stopping Danny Flores in Spherical 2, in October 2019. The struggle came about nearly six months after Rosa misplaced by unanimous determination to Sulaiman Segawa.

Each Acosta and Rosa fought on even phrases from the opening bell however Rosa discovered success connecting with proper crosses to Acosta’s head. Undaunted, Acosta started mixing his assault, touchdown lead and counter proper crosses upstairs on Rosa.

Acosta battered Rosa in the course of the remaining minute of Spherical 6, touchdown a collection of combos that had Rosa backing up. Whilst Rosa gave a superb account of himself, Acosta was the busier fighter and linked the simpler punches.

The 24-year-old Acosta, who’s promoted by Thompson Boxing Promotions, believed the mandatory changes have been key in defeating Rosa.

“I felt positive, this being my first 10-round bout,” stated Acosta, who has now gained his final 5 bouts since struggling his solely loss as a professional by the hands of light-weight prospect Ruben Torres in Could 2019. I’ve by no means even had an eight-round bout earlier than. I did really feel a bit drained within the struggle when he linked a hook to the physique.

“I’d have to look at the struggle once more. There’s quite a lot of room for enchancment. My favourite punch is the jab. It was working however then my coach instructed me to stress him extra and go on the assault.”

In a conflict of unbeaten junior featherweights, Pedro Salome, of Anaheim, California, by the use of Puebla, Mexico, defeated Hector Bayanilla by break up determination.

One judges scored the bout 39-37 for Bayanilla, whereas the opposite two judges scored the bout 39-37 for Salome, who improves to 3-0-1 with 1 KO.

Bayanilla, who resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania, drops to 2-1-1 with 1 KO.

Friday’s All Star Boxing card was the primary of the “Boxeo Telemundo” spring collection. The cardboard came about one evening after the passing of Felix “Tuto” Zabala Sr., who based All Star Boxing. Felix “Tutico” Zabala now runs the day-to-day operations of the corporate together with his son Felix Zabala III.

Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October of 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He might be reached by e mail at [email protected] or on Twitter @FSalazarBoxing.