By: Sean Crose
Rising tremendous middleweight Diego Pacheco appeared to impress Saturday evening when he battled Maciej Sulecki in a scheduled 12 rounder in Pacheco’s residence turf of Southern California. At 21-0, Pacheco was clearly the principle attraction. The 32-2 Sulecki, nevertheless, was seeking to benefit from a comparatively quiet boxing weekend by scoring an enormous upset in entrance of DAZN cameras.
Sulecki was aggressive early behind a excessive guard. Pacheco responded with an efficient – and really lengthy – jab. Though Sulecki began off aggressively once more within the second, Pacheco was in a position to dominate the spherical by choosing away at his man along with his correct jab. By the third it appeared that Pacheco was in a position to neutralize Sulecki’s assault by advantage of placing his punches along with pace and accuracy. By spherical’s finish, nevertheless, Sulecki was exchanging with Pacheco.
The fourth spherical was excessive octane and nicely fought by each males. It was a detailed, thrilling chapter. The fifth was shut, just like the fourth, till Pacheco damage his foe. Because the seconds wore down, it appeared like Pacheco would possibly really have the ability to cease his man earlier than the bell. It wasn’t meant to be, however there was little question Pacheco had dome some actual harm. A thunderous physique shot within the first minute of the sixth put Sulecki down – and out. It was the primary time in his profession that Sulecki had been stopped.
“I really feel nice,” Pacheco stated afterward. “He got here to combat; he got here to win; however like I stated he by no means bumped into anybody like me earlier than.” Though it’s unlikely he’ll have the ability to face present tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez anytime quickly, Pacheco stated he’s prepared to tackle “anybody within the high ten.” In the intervening time, nevertheless, the younger Californian was clearly savoring his most up-to-date win. “I hope you guys loved it,” he stated to the gang.
