Pacheco and Mercado’s Return on West Coast

Ernesto Mercado and Diego Pacheco Will Share The December 13th Card in Southern California Eddie Hearn-Promoted Event.

The Highly Ranked, Unbeaten # 3 WBO Super Middleweight Contender Pacheco (24-0, 18 Kos) Will Likely Be in the Main Event Against A Still-to-Be-Determined Opponent.

Tito Mercado Deserves The Headline

Light Welterweight Contender Mercado (16-0, 16 kos) arguably Should Be The Main Event, As He’s Shown in His Short Fourth Professional Career Than The Lanky 6’4 “Pacheco. Mercado was supposed to Fight Last Summer in June, but IDEA Scratched That Idea.

The ring Broke The Story of Mercado and Pacheco Sharing The Card. Will be interested to see Who Hearn Can Secure For Those Two Fighters IF Turkey AlaShikh Isn’t Involved. To Persuade Other Promoters to Agree to Their Fighters Facing Pacheco and Mercado, Hearn Will Need to Invest Money.

Fans Tired of Baby Steps

Fans Starting to Lose Patience With The Way Hearner Is Bringing Aste Pacheco, As They Want to Step Up to A Quality Contender Like Osleys Iglesias to See’s Any Good or Not.

Understandably, It Wouldn’t Make Sense to Hearn to Match Pacheco Against A Phenom Like Osleys and Watch Him Lose. The Chances of Rebuilding Diego After a Loss To The Cuban Iglesias Would Be Slim.

Ranking slippage at 168

It Took Pacheco Seven Years to Reach His Current Position, and he has actually Losing Ground Lanely, Unbeaten Remaining Despite. Canelo Alvarez has taken the # 1 spot in the wbo’s rankings from 168 Pacheco, and the Unaccomplished Hamzah Sheez is Now Ranked Just And Him # 2.

The ranking drop by Pacheco is tied to the lackluster matchmaking That His promoters Have Him for Him. He Should Have Been Moved By Now, But They’re Using The Same Formula As They Did Do With Edgar Berlanga When He Was Them. In Other Words, Weak Matchmaking To Get Into A Big Money Clash That He’s Overmatched And Unqualified.

Pacheco’s Last Six Opponents:

• Trevor McCumby
• Steven Nelson
• Maciej Sulecki
• Shawn McCalman
• Marcelo Coceres
• Manuel Gallegos

Shakur’s Silence Speaks Volumes

The former amateur star, Ernesto Mercado, Is coming off a Fourth-Round Knockout Win Jose Pedraza on June 25, 2025, in Las Vegas. Mercado, 23, Called Out Shakur Stevenson Recently, But Was Dismissed By Him. Fans saw that an example of shakur viewing Mercado as a threat.