Diego Pacheco and Maciej Sulecki pose on the weigh-in forward of the Matchroom Boxing card at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park in Carson, California. Photograph Credit score: Melina Pizano/Matchroom.
Diego Pacheco made adjustments on this previous coaching camp to raised distribute weight throughout his 6’4” body.
The outcomes have been evident on the scale, because the unbeaten prospect checked in at a chiseled 168 kilos. Poland’s Maciej Sulecki was below the divisional restrict at 167.4 pound for his or her scheduled 12-round contest.
The bout headlines a five-fight DAZN telecast this Saturday from Dignity Well being Sports activities Park in Carson, California.
Each fighters have been respectful of the opposite all through battle week. Nonetheless, their ultimate stare down lasted practically a full minute earlier than Sulecki nodded and calmly stepped again.
Pacheco (21-0, 17 knockouts) was born and raised close by in Los Angeles’s South Central area. The occasion marks his second native headliner in lower than ten months. He topped a DAZN invoice final Nov. 18 in close by Inglewood, the place he stopped former title challenger Marcelo Coceres.
The knockout streak ended for Pacheco in his ten-round factors win over Shawn McCalman (15-1, 10 KOs) this previous April 6 in Las Vegas. Pacheco is at the moment ranked as The Ring’s No. 4 tremendous middleweight.
Sulecki (32-2, 12 KOs) has solely misplaced on the prime degree and in his opponent’s hometown. He dropped a twelve-round resolution to Daniel Jacobs of their April 2018 WBA title eliminator. His lone title bid was significantly much less aggressive as he was shut out by then-unbeaten WBO middleweight titlist Demetrius Andrade 14 months later in Windfall, Rhode Island.
4 wins have since adopted for the 35-year-old contender who as soon as once more hits the highway.
Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez (27-1, 27 KOs) took a battle above the junior light-weight restrict as he’s owed an IBF title shot. The Ring’s No. 8-rated 130-pounder from Los Mochis, Mexico was 133 kilos, whereas Colombia’s Miguel Marriaga (31-7, 26 KOs) was 131.8 kilos. Their scheduled ten-round contest is the night’s chief assist.
Nunez is the present necessary challenger to IBF junior light-weight titlist Anthony Cacace (22-1, 8 KOs).
DAZN important undercard, 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT
Arturo Cardenas (14-0-1, 8 KOs), Sahuayo de Morelos, Mexico, 121.2 kilos
Jesus Arechiga (21-1, 15 KOs), Mazatlan, Mexico, 122 kilos
10 rounds, junior featherweight
Cheavon Clarke (9-0, 7 KOs), Gravesend, England, 199.8 kilos
Efetobor Apochi (12-2, 12 KOs), Houston, Texas by way of Ughelli, Nigeria, 199.2 kilos
10 rounds, cruiserweight
Adelaida Ruiz (16-0-1, 8 KOs), Los Angeles, 113.6 kilos
Ginny Fuchs (3-0, 1 KO), Houston, 114.4 kilos
10 rounds, for Ruiz’s interim WBC junior bantamweight
DAZN preliminary undercard, 5:30 p.m. ET/2:30 p.m. PT
Fabian Rojo (9-0, 7 KOs), Phoenix, Arizona, 145.8 kilos
Alejandro Frias (15-10-2, 7 KOs), Tepic, Mexico, 146.4 kilos
6 rounds, welterweight
Criztec Bazaldua (5-0, 1 KO), Los Angeles, 140 kilos
Kyle Erwin (7-2, 3 KOs), Oceanside, California, 140.8 kilos
6 rounds, light-weight
Alexander Gueche (5-0, 5 KOs), Lengthy Seashore, California, 115.6 kilos
David Vargas (8-4-2, 5 KOs), Gomez Palacio, Mexico, 116 kilos
6 rounds, junior bantamweight
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