Coming into 2019, bantamweight Vince Cachero was riding high. Riding a six-fight winning streak, with three of those victories coming in 2018, Cachero was looking to keep his momentum going in a title shot at LFA 62 in March.
Unfortunately for Cachero, his March bout with Casey Kenney did not go his way, as he suffered a first round TKO loss, the first defeat of his career.
“Earlier this year I had that title shot with the LFA, and had a last minute replacement and unfortunately I lost to him,” Cachero told MMAWeekly.com. “Honestly I just got caught. That’s all it really was. I didn’t really get a chance to settle down. The beauty of MMA is you can get caught at any moment.
“I’m not taking anything away from someone like Casey Kenney; he hit me with the right shot at the right moment at the right time and it put me out; but I think I take that shot nine times out of 10 and nothing happens.”
Having suffered his first defeat, Cachero went back to the drawing board and made some tweaks to his game, especially in how to avoid such a loss in the future.
“Obviously there is always going to be things needing changing,” said Cachero. “When you’re winning you’re always in the mindset of ‘we’re doing the right thing’, so it gave me that good reset button to look at all the smaller parts of my game and see where the holes are.
“That shot he landed on me, I was just exiting the clinch wrong, so we drilled that a lot, drilled a lot of clinch work, but other than that I just made some changes in camp to make sure I’m ready for the next test.”
Cachero (6-1) will look to rebound this Friday in Riverside, California, when he takes on Liudvik Sholinian (5-1-1) in a main card 135-pound bout at LFA 74.
This article first appeared at News – MMAWeekly.com
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