WBA Director of the Athletes Committee Acelino Freitas presented an online professional boxing workshop on Saturday. The five-hour event covered the keys to reaching the highest level and the things you need to know to be a world champion, all based on the experience of “Popo”, who was a four-time world champion during his career and now stands for the interests of boxers from the WBA Directorate. The workshop was in Portuguese and was especially aimed at Brazilian audiences. Freitas has already started planning a second workshop at the end of the year in Spanish with real-time translation into English.
Freitas was an unorthodox fighter with crazy power at all angles. I enjoyed watching his fights during his prime. Props to him for offering knowledge via web to benefit others interested in the sport.
Good fighter
Hugs ❤️ to Acelino Freitas for doing this, and thank you to the magnificent WBA for making this all possible.
Bar must be pretty low for magnificent.
He became a cop in Brasil after he retired from boxing; wonder if he still is?
It was a pleasure becoming friends with Popo… He came and trained in Coachella for about 3 or 4 of his fights and used me as a sparring partner. His coach Oscar Suarez trained me for a couple fights. Popo is a very very nice guy. And yes, he can crack. He busted my nose in one of our sparring sessions. Lol…