The undefeated pretender to the Super Middleight Diego Paczeco (23-0, 18 KO) made the decisive unanimous decision about the previously disturbing Steven “So Cool” Nelson (20-1, 16 KO), maintaining his WBO International and WBC USA 168-pound titles W A Planned 12-round fight at Chelsea, Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas.
The event was broadcast live to Dazn Worldwide on the match boxing card (117-111, 117-111, 117-111).
36-year-old Nelson opened strongly, controlling the early rounds, pressing 23-year-old Pacha from the south-center Los Angeles in California and keeping him on the foot with an aggressive pace. Nelson seemed to be confusing Pachane for the fourth, until the younger man managed to land solid to the right above Nelson’s left eye, opening a cut that disturbed him for the next few rounds. After a mighty closing of the fourth round, Pakco really began to find his rhythm in the fifth round, skillfully controlling the distance and speed of the fight and landing solid arrows, when the blood of Nelson’s cutting became nuisance.
“I prepared for everything, but I did not prepare for cutting. So when I felt the blood fell and got into my eyes, it rejected my whole game plan … This was what pulled me out of the game at the beginning of the fight, “Nelson said about the cuts after the fight.
Rounds from six to ten were a story of Pacharo finding his places. He landed with a shot of power after shooting the power, when Nelson’s power released to stop when the injuries began to bounce.
In the face of a clear card deficit, Nelson started in the eleventh round, regaining control over the tempo and accelerating. Omaha’s exhausted native controlled the first half of the round, landing by arrows and causing Pakco to withdraw on the ring. Paczeco recovered with many mighty mountains, sending both men back to their corners to the last round. The twelfth round of Nelson Pacco saw the twelfth round with a wave of solid shots. Clearly choosing a knockout, Nelson gave everything he had and took a round with his solid arrows and aggression, but it was not enough to overcome the dominant control of the Pakco ring and consistent capacity of power in the middle round.
After the Action, Paczeco said about the competition: “I feel that these are the fights you learn the most. When you have a guy with you in the ring who can take a blow and come back with his own, he really teaches how to find a way to win, and that’s what I had to do today. I really had to dig deep and show my skills and heart. ” Ultimately, Pakco has doubled the percentage of Nelson’s shots, 28% to 14%, and directed him from 132 to 77 shots, which makes it easier for judges to fight for the invincible Pacha.
Chairman Matchroom Eddie Hearn smiled later, congratulating the teenage warrior to his victory, at the same time praising Nelson as a competitor more than Game, saying: “That was what we wanted for Diego. That’s what he needs. You know that you have to fight these solid guys with great beards, and Steven Nelson’s chin is unbelievable. He took so many gigantic right hands that many others did not do it in the division. “Then he developed what the next year will bring for Pakco:” Great performance, great win, and is a pretender to WBO. He is number one in the world. We need these great fights now and it was a good test. But he cleaned it, and now he can go to a higher level. “
In the factor of the evening, the undefeated rising star Andy Cruz (5-0, 2 KO) from Matanzas, Kuba successfully defended her IBF International and WBA Continental America America America’s Lightweight. 2, 14 Kos), from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, in the planned 10-round delicate competition (99-91, 98-92, 98-92).
The three -time amateur world champion and the Olympic medalist Cruz was under the control of most of the fight against excellent technique, a set of skill and power. Salcido, who recently started training with Jose Benavidez, achieved moments of success during the match, but every time Cruz corresponded to his offensive efforts, including the dominant fourth round in which he wounded Salcido with his left hook and followed the elation. Cruz continued to spread Salcido’s defense with precise combinations and immaculate right hands. In the round 10 Cruz swayed Salcido with his right hand, which almost ended the fight. But Salcido was saved by the bell. Cruz landed 33 % of its power shots compared to 13 % Salcido.
Unexplored Puncher Power, Ernesto “Tito” Mercado (17-0, 16 Kos) from Pomon in California, leveled with the former world champion with two Jose “The Sniper” Pedraz (29-7-1, 14 Kos) with Caguas, Puerto Rico in the planned 10-round fight about the weight of delicate. The competition ended after four rounds, when the undefeated “Tito” was hit by Pedraza with the destructive right hook, winning a technical knockout with 52 seconds in the round (2:08 TKO RD4). 23-year-old Mercado dominated the fight from the very beginning, using a combination of head and body shots to exploit a 35-year-old Pedraza defense. In the third round Pedraza fought the rear foot, where he fought for landing on Mercado. The finish came when Mercado landed a few rapid and powerful pedrazy face, dropping him to the floor and winning a convincing victory in the fight. At the time of stopping “Tito”, 54 power beats landed compared to only 7 with Pedraz.
“It is great to go back to the ring, especially here in Las Vegas,” said 23-year-old Mercado. “You have all haters here [looking at three-division champion Shakur Stevenson, who was sitting ringside]; This victory is definitely valuable. “
Asked what it means to face someone as experienced as the former Pedraza Master, Tito said: “I just kept serene. He tried to report and get tired. I think he thought that I would try to knock him out immediately, but I saved my energy and remained serene, I collected shots, hit the body, and saw the perfect arrows, and I knocked out … he was approaching closer – and I wanted him to feel comfortable – and when He threw this shot, I knew I would catch him with a counterattack. “
After the victory of “Tito” Mercado in his first fight under the banner of the match told Chris Mannix how he wanted to look 2025 [pointing at Stevenson]. I would expand this gap between my teeth. He is not going to do sh ** t. “
In the first match of the DAZN Main Card, unbeaten Leonardo Rubalcava (9-0-1, 3 KO) with Teocaltiche, Jalisco, Mexico of Uncle Tito, Israel Mercado (11-1-2, 7 Kos), in eight rounds. . The end of the action ended in a draw of the majority, and one judge shot him 76-74 in favor of Mercado, and the other two judges shot him 75-75.
In the first round of an electrifying fight, 29-year-old Mercado dominated most of the action, but 22-year-old Rubalcava, trained by Robert Garcia, in the last moments, knocking Mercado with a huge right hand just above the right hand 20 seconds before the bell. The second and third rounds were close matters, and both warriors find strengths. After the fourth, Mercado adapted his strategy, effectively holding away from Rubalcavy’s law and securing a solid round. In the next rounds, Mercado will score on the edge and still scored a goal consistently. His momentum, however, was suspended after he landed in Rubalcav in seventh place and a point was taken away, which would ultimately cost him a fight. In the eighth and final round of Rubalcava he showed his skills, but Mercado’s heart and determination allowed him to dominate. The judges agreed that it was a strict fight, and the cards result in most of the draw due to the deduction of the point.
The newly signed talent of matches, the Indian Olympian Nishant Dev (1-0, 1 KO) debuted against Alton Wiggins (1-1-1) from Modesto, California Bell Livestream (click here to watch). In the dominant debut, Dev twice knocked Wiggins in the first, before the judge called for stopping at 2:48 in the first round. “The road to the first world champion from India begins … At the moment my fresh journey begins and I’m ready for it,” Dev announced after the fight.
Hearn joined the fresh pro in the ring and congratulated him, saying: “Nishant Dev can go to the world championships” and advertising the potential of the Olympian as a warrior and the future global star.
Harley Mederos (8-0, 7 Kos) from Brooklyn, NY, leveled against Arturo de Isla (5-3-1, 4 Kos) from Monterrey in Mexico in six-time 135 pounds. In his third six -hard fight, Mederos dominated the competition, knocking on De Isla at 1:27 in the third round with a thunderous combination on the right, left combination. “I am a student of this game, I’m still learning. I just try to be better and better, said the humble 24-year-old after winning.
Starting the Bell Bell Bell Livestream card, invincible 19-year-old Zaquin Moses (2-0, 1 KO) with Newark, Nj, cousin of master Stevenson, stood in the face of a overdue deputy, 21-year-old Mario Garcia (3 -1, 3 KO) from Cancun in Mexico, in the scheduled four-forming Super-Feather competition. The fight ended with seconds before the start of the second round, when the judge waved from the competition because of an injury in which Garcia was unable to continue.
“I haven’t been warmed up yet. I was preparing to go out and stop him in the second round – said Moses. “I live in the gym. That’s all I do. I train solid. It’s good to get my first space. “
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