{"id":632364,"date":"2025-12-14T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632364\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:59:12","slug":"diego-pacheco-rises-from-knockdown-to-hand-kevin-lele-sadjo-first-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632364\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Pacheco rises from knockdown to hand Kevin Lele Sadjo first loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since1976Sun Dec 14, 2025, 5:54 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>He needs to hit the gym and work and the go back and work some more. Technique, strategy, movement to optimize use of his gifts and tools. I&#8217;m surprised with the lack of evolution. Lots of up and coming talents would have folded badly, but he hung in there with his God given gifts and nothing else. <\/p>\n<p>Take a page out of the Zayas book and get the skill level and ring IQ up to level. I have no inside info, but Pacheco looked like someone who&#8217;s entire team believed the hype, took their foot of the gas, hands of the wheel and nothing evolved. With the right sparring and training, this should&#8217;ve been an easy fight. To make things worse, he gassed out badly.<\/p>\n<p>@6&#8217;3 or 6&#8217;4 168lbs might be to much to ask. The Canelo payday at 168 is pretty much gone so time for a real roadmap to make a name and good money at the proper weight classe.<\/p>\n<p>Pacheco could  also try to squeeze one good opportunity out of this bad performance. Names that may have avoided him, won&#8217;t after this fight. If Diego can do the work, make up for lost time and learn what needs, he could, could upset someone. <\/p>\n<p>crisantonio917Sun Dec 14, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>ExPoSeD!!!! Struggled and dropped by a small middleweight&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>CoverdaleSun Dec 14, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t recognise yourself as posting negative opinions? Always moaning about promoters and the belt orgs?<br \/>\nDo you think you have some special insight? We&#8217;ve heard it all before. Many times. Before you showed up. <\/p>\n<p>I do that, and mostly in the context of how boxing media could be doing a better job of holding them to account so that they change.<\/p>\n<p>SteveMSun Dec 14, 2025, 4:14 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>From what I&#8217;ve watched of his career, this was Pacheco&#8217;s first genuinely difficult night at the office. Some of that is down to Sadjo&#8217;s pressure and compact frame, and the rest is Pacheco not being able to fight in a strategically advantageous way. I&#8217;m not sure if his conditioning was off from his training camp, or the game-plan + Sadjo&#8217;s pressure zapped his energy, but Pacheco looked lethargic and it seemed like he was already in &#8220;battery-saver&#8221; mode early on. If Pacheco had no infighting ability, I think he would&#8217;ve lost last night.<\/p>\n<p>For people who are doom and gloom about Pacheco, remember that he&#8217;s a relatively young contender at 24. I think he&#8217;ll be fine. Now he&#8217;s in a position for a title shot, and hopefully we&#8217;ll see Pacheco vs. Sheeraz\/Mbilli before year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>Good balanced post. One mediocre performance and the doom and gloom merchants are out\n <\/p>\n<p>SteveMSun Dec 14, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Opinion is okay (I don&#8217;t use social media) but I&#8217;m talking about these persistently negative posters who seem to have a ubiquitous presence here.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t recognise yourself as posting negative opinions? Always moaning about promoters and the belt orgs?<br \/>\n  Do you think you have some special insight? We&#8217;ve heard it all before. Many times. Before you showed up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since1976Sun Dec 14, 2025, 5:54 PM UTC He needs to hit the gym and work and the go&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,24191,6239,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-632364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-diego-pacheco","10":"tag-kevin-lele-sadjo","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115719226269390653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}