Diego Pacheco

Diego Pacheco (born March 8, 2001) is an American professional boxer. Amateur career Pacheco began boxing at the age of ten and amassed over seventy-five bouts and eight National championships in his amateur career. At the time he turned professional, he was ranked as the top amateur middleweight in both the United States and Mexico. Professional career In October 2018 Pacheco signed with Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing USA. He made his professional debut on December 22, 2018, at the Auditorio Fausto Gutiérrez Moreno in Tijuana, Mexico, against Luis Carlos Gonzalez, winning by knockout (KO) early in the first round. In 2019, he fought and won seven times, including six victories by way of KO. On December 7, 2019, he featured on the undercard of Andy Ruiz Jr. vs Anthony Joshua II in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, knocking out the more experienced opponent Selemani Saidi with a right hand.