Matchroom’s Next Superstar Boxer Re-Announces Himself With Nasty Body Punch KO

Matchroom’s next superstar boxer, Diego Pacheco, re-announced himself Saturday with a nasty body punch knockout win in Carson, California over Maciej Sulecki.

The 23-year-old has enjoyed a rapid ascent in boxing’s super middleweight division and put the weight class on notice as he obliterated Sulecki in the sixth round, having out-landed him in punch statistics in every round prior. By the end, he’d landed 81 shots from 280 thrown for a 28.9% accuracy rate, according to Compubox data sent to GIVEMESPORT. He also, noticeably, landed 49% of his power punches — almost half of those thrown.

Diego Pacheco Beat Maciej Sulecki With a Body Shot

Watch the knockout win in slow-mo right here

Pacheco has been a rising star for years but a particularly exquisite 2023, in which he returned three knockout wins from three fights, put him on the map. The 168-pound bout against Sulecki was his toughest task to date, and it was one he passed with flying colors.

The bulk of Pacheco’s work had focused on head-shots, and threw straight rights with bad intentions after a couple of feeling-out rounds early on. He found his momentum quickly, integrated uppercuts into his repertoire, and was pretty much bullying Sulecki in the fifth. Then came the sixth — a round in which Pacheco only needed one shot; the body punch.

Sulecki was done. It was over.

Watch the knockout right here:

And in slow-motion right here:

Pacheco Called Out a Big Name After His Saturday Win

He now has Jaime Munguia firmly in his crosshairs

Pacheco campaigns in a super middleweight division that seems to open itself up with every big fight at the top of the division. Though Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez runs the weight class, there are a number of big name fighters there like Edgar Berlanga, Christian Mbilli, Demetrius Andrade, and Jaime Munguia.

At the post-fight press conference, Pacheco’s promoter Eddie Hearn, the group chairman of Matchroom, said a fight with Munguia is one “that sells out [the Crypto.com] Arena.”

Regarding whom he wants most, Pacheco todl DAZN on the broadcast, while still in the middle of the ring, that he’d fight “anyone in the top-10.

​​​​​​​Victory over Sulecki advanced Pacheco’s unbeaten pro boxing record to 22 wins (18 KOs).