Acelino Freitas and Diego Corrales battled for the WBO lightweight championship on Saturday evening at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. The matchup pitted two knockout artists, and all signs pointed to a slugfest.

Freitas put on a boxing clinic for the first half of the fight. Constantly moving, the Brazilian frustrated his American opponent with combinations and the occassional haymaker. Through the first six rounds, the unorthodox Freitas was up five rounds to one.

Freitas's pace, however, proved impossible to maintain. Corrales scored a vicious knockdown in the eighth. He did the same a round later, and Freitas again spat his mouthpiece out to delay the fighting. The referee wasn't having it and deducted him a point, making it a 10-7 round. I had the fight even entering the tenth round, despite the deductions suffered by the undefeated Brazilian. Corrales inflicted another knockdown, and although Freitas was quick to get up he uttered the words made famous by Roberto Duran nearly a quarter-century ago: no mas.