Diego Pacheco (21-0, 17 KOs) faces Maciej Sulecki (32-2, 12 KOs) in a twelve-round mini-test within the headliner, reside on DAZN, on the Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, Carson, Los Angeles.
Reside Outcomes
Tremendous featherweight Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez (28-1 28 KOs) outslugged veteran Miguel Marriaga (31-8 26 KOs), stopping him within the sixth spherical in a pure battle. Nunez knocked Marriaga down as soon as the fourth and sixth rounds.
After the sixth, the battle was halted. Marriaga had been dropped by a physique shot from Sugar Nunez late within the sixth, and it might have been pointless to permit the 37-year-old to return out for the seventh.
Marriaga caught the easy-to-hit Nunez all through the battle, throwing homerun punches and connecting with them. Nunez by no means appeared bothered by any of the pictures from Marriaga, however he was hit with punches that appeared extra highly effective than those he was throwing. If not for Nunez’s punch resistance, he wouldn’t have lasted lengthy on this battle as a result of he received hit with enormous punches.
Continental Americas tremendous bantamweight champion Arturo Cardenas (15-0-1 8 KOs) retained his belt, profitable a ten-round cut up choice over Jesus Arechiga (21-2 15 KOs). Arechiga managed the battle within the second half, working Cardenas to the physique and backing him up. The judges appeared extra impressed with Cardenas’s headshots and appeared to disregard all of the physique pictures that Arechiga was touchdown.
The judges’ scores had been 96-94 for Arechiga, 98-92, and 96-94 for Cardenas.
Unbeaten cruiserweight Chev Clarke (10-0, 7 KOs) needed to attain deep to defeat the highly effective Nigerian knockout artist Efetobor Apochi (12-3, 12 KOs), profitable a ten-round majority choice.
Apochi had Clarke, 33, damage within the tenth spherical after clipping him with a proper hand, however he couldn’t end the job. The judges’ scores had been 95-95, 98-92, and 97-93. It was aggressive all over, it was not possible to decide on between them on the finish. The judges went with the A-side fighter Clarke, however he didn’t appear to be he’d performed sufficient.
Apochi was strolling Clarke down all through the battle, hitting him with the more durable pictures and forcing him to battle to outlive. Within the ninth, Clarke had Apochi damage after tagging him with a proper to the top. Apochi got here again on the finish of the spherical to nail Clarke with repeated pictures to the top, which had him wanting shaky.
Occasion begin time: 7:30 p.m. ET/4:30 p.m. PT.
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Pacheco, 23, is a diamond within the tough and desires extra time earlier than he’s able to problem Canelo Alvarez for his tremendous middleweight titles. Promoter Eddie Hearn says he needs to see Pacheco “slice via Sulecki like a knife via butter” to indicate that he’s able to be superior towards harder competitors, like #1 WBC-ranked Christian Mbilli or Jaime Munguia.
Sulecko is being introduced in because the B-side opponent and has different concepts. He needs to defeat Pacheco and transfer his profession ahead to land an enormous battle towards Canelo, which might be a large turnaround at this level in his 14-year profession.
Undercard Spotlight: ‘Sugar’ Nunez vs. Marriaga
Within the undercard tonight, the all-action tremendous featherweight contender Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez (27-1, 27 KOs) battles former world title challenger Miguel Marriaga (31-7, 25 KOs) in a ten-round contest.
This battle has knockout written throughout it, and its going to be attention-grabbing to see how ‘Sugar’ Nunez holds up beneath the onerous pictures from the 37-year-old Marriaga. The Colombian Marriaga had Oscar Valdez damage of their battle in 2017, and a few consider the Mexican fighter hasn’t been the identical fighter since.
