On August 7, 2004, Acelino Freitas (35-0, 31 KOs), the lightweight WBO champion, defends his title against former world champion Diego Corrales (38-2, 31 KOs).
Acelino Freitas is coming in to the fight on a 35-fight win streak with a 88% KO rate; his last fight was a unanimous decision win over Artur Grigorian, 7 months and 4 days ago. Diego Corrales is on a 1-fight win streak with a 77% KO rate, with his last fight being a split decision win over Joel Casamayor, 5 months and 1 day ago.
The winning odds are at 78.1-21.9 in favor of Acelino Freitas. It is going to be a competitive fight and Diego Corrales will put up a very good fight, but Freitas will prevail.
Diego Corrales stopped the champion via TKO in the 10th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and is crowned the new WBO lightweight champion. Corrales improves his record to 39-2 (32 KOs), while Freitas adds a loss to his record at 35-1.