Ángel Acosta

Ángel Acosta, born Ángel Acosta Gómez on October 8, 1990, is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the WBO light flyweight title from 2017 to 2019. As an amateur he won the gold medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. He was born the seventh of nine siblings and raised in the low-income Barrio Obrero area of San Juan, where his older brother, the amateur boxer Luis A. Gómez, took him to the neighborhood gymnasium in late 1999 and he began training. While growing up he followed the welterweight trio of Félix Trinidad, Miguel Cotto and Daniel Santos and admired the technical skill of Iván Calderón, and after the family moved to a public housing project known as Las Gladiolas he met the fellow boxer Félix Verdejo.