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Acosta vs Rivera: Live stream, results, round by round, how to watch, start time, full card info

Angel Acosta takes on Janiel Rivera in tonight’s Golden Boy Fight Night main event!

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Angel Acosta takes on Janiel Rivera in the main event of tonight’s Golden Boy card
Angel Acosta takes on Janiel Rivera in the main event of tonight’s Golden Boy card
Golden Boy/Lizette De Los Santos

Results

  • Angel Acosta TKO-1 Janiel Rivera (1:19)
  • Victor Morales UD-10 Alberto Torres (100-88, 100-88, 100-88)
  • Rudy Garcia UD-8 Diuhl Olguin (79-73, 79-73, 80-72)
  • Jimmy Brenes MD-4 Hector Perez (38-38, 40-36, 40-36)
  • Eric Tudor UD-6 Donte Stubbs (60-54, 60-54, 60-54)

Golden Boy Fight Night is back on Thursday again, and tonight’s main event will see flyweight contender Angel Acosta take on Janiel Rivera, plus four more fights from the Fantasy Springs in Indio, Calif.

You can watch live at 9 pm ET on DAZN and also on YouTube free for everyone, if you don’t have DAZN or just don’t feel like logging into DAZN for the fights.

Here’s the YouTube stream for those who want to watch there:

Acosta, 31, is a former junior flyweight titleholder whose fights almost never go to the cards, and the 30-year-old Rivera, who has been stopped three times, is up against in on paper here. In all candor, if we’re sticking to “on paper,” this is not a very good main event; it’s a bounce-back fight for Acosta after his loss to Junto Nakatani last year. Rivera has lost five in a row.

To note, Acosta weighed in at 112.8 for the fight, and Rivera at 114, because again, it’s not really meant to be some huge challenge for Acosta, who probably will still fight at flyweight for more “serious” bouts. But that’s why it’s listed as junior bantamweight below.

These shows are always fast-paced, easy to watch, and if you’ve got nothing going on on a Thursday night — and let’s be real, who does?! — come on by and talk some fights with us! You’ll get a chance to see some prospects in action, and hey, Acosta’s never boring. Ever.

Full Card (DAZN and YouTube, 9:00 pm ET)

  • Angel Acosta (22-3-1, 21 KO) vs Janiel Rivera (18-8-3, 11 KO), junior bantamweights, 10 rounds
  • Victor Morales (15-0-1, 8 KO) vs Alberto Torres (11-4-3, 4 KO), featherweights, 10 rounds
  • Rudy Garcia (12-0-1, 2 KO) vs Diuhl Olguin (15-22-5, 10 KO), featherweights, 8 rounds
  • Jimmy Brenes (1-0, 1 KO) vs Hector Perez (0-0-1, 0 KO), welterweights, 4 rounds
  • Eric Tudor (3-0, 3 KO) vs Donte Stubbs (6-4, 2 KO), middleweights, 6 rounds

We previewed Acosta vs Rivera and so much more on the latest episode of Prophets of Goom, Bad Left Hook’s boxing podcast!

If the embeddable player doesn’t show or work for you, we are on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon/Audible, Google, iHeart, Deezer, and several other apps! You can also directly download the MP3 here. There is NSFW language.

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