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Diego Pacheco, Maciej Sulecki Make Weight, Engage in Lengthy Staredown Ahead of DAZN Headliner
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Diego Pacheco, Maciej Sulecki Make Weight, Engage in Lengthy Staredown Ahead of DAZN Headliner
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Dec 13, 2024
Dec 13, 2024
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Diego Pacheco made changes in this past training camp to better distribute weight across his 6’4” frame. The results were evident at the scale, as the unbeaten prospect checked in at a chiseled 168 pounds. Poland’s Maciej Sulecki was under the division...
Diego Pacheco made changes in this past training camp to better distribute weight across his 6’4” frame.
The results were evident at the scale, as the unbeaten prospect checked in at a chiseled 168 pounds. Poland’s Maciej Sulecki was under the divisional limit at 167.4 pound for their scheduled 12-round contest.
The bout headlines a five-fight DAZN telecast this Saturday from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
Both fighters have been respectful of the other throughout fight week. However, their final stare down lasted nearly a full minute before Sulecki nodded and calmly stepped back.
Pacheco (21-0, 17 knockouts) was born and raised nearby in Los Angeles’s South Central region. The event marks his second local headliner in less than ten months. He topped a DAZN bill last Nov. 18 in nearby Inglewood, where he stopped former title challenger Marcelo Coceres.
The knockout streak ended for Pacheco in his ten-round points win over Shawn McCalman (15-1, 10 KOs) this past April 6 in Las Vegas. Pacheco is currently ranked asThe Ring’s No. 4 super middleweight.
Sulecki (32-2, 12 KOs) has only lost at the top level and in his opponent's hometown. He dropped a twelve-round decision to Daniel Jacobs in their April 2018 WBA title eliminator. His lone title bid was considerably less competitive as he was shut out by then-unbeaten WBO middleweight titlist Demetrius Andrade 14 months later in Providence, Rhode Island.
Four wins have since followed for the 35-year-old contender who once again hits the road.
Eduardo ‘Sugar’ Nunez (27-1, 27 KOs) took a fight above the junior lightweight limit as he is owed an IBF title shot. The Ring’s No. 8-rated 130-pounder from Los Mochis, Mexico was 133 pounds, while Colombia’s Miguel Marriaga (31-7, 26 KOs) was 131.8 pounds. Their scheduled ten-round contest is the evening’s chief support.
Nunez is the current mandatory challenger to IBF junior lightweight titlist Anthony Cacace (22-1, 8 KOs).
DAZN main undercard, 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT
Arturo Cardenas (14-0-1, 8 KOs), Sahuayo de Morelos, Mexico, 121.2 pounds Jesus Arechiga (21-1, 15 KOs), Mazatlan, Mexico, 122 pounds10 rounds, junior featherweight
Cheavon Clarke (9-0, 7 KOs), Gravesend, England, 199.8 pounds Efetobor Apochi (12-2, 12 KOs), Nashville, Tennessee via Ughelli, Nigeria, 199.2 pounds10 rounds, cruiserweight
Adelaida Ruiz (16-0-1, 8 KOs), Los Angeles, 113.6 pounds Ginny Fuchs (3-0, 1 KO), Houston, 114.4 pounds10 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 pounds Alejandro Frias (15-10-2, 7 KOs), Tepic, Mexico, 146.4 pounds6 rounds, welterweight
Criztec Bazaldua (5-0, 1 KO), Los Angeles, 140 pounds Kyle Erwin (7-2, 3 KOs), Oceanside, California, 140.8 pounds6 rounds, lightweight
Alexander Gueche (5-0, 5 KOs), Long Beach, California, 115.6 pounds David Vargas (8-4-2, 5 KOs), Gomez Palacio, Mexico, 116 pounds6 rounds, junior bantamweight
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