{"id":45597,"date":"2025-10-07T05:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/roach-will-go-up-to-140-pounds-to-face-isaac-pitbull-cruz-for-title\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:42:01","slug":"roach-will-go-up-to-140-pounds-to-face-isaac-pitbull-cruz-for-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/roach-will-go-up-to-140-pounds-to-face-isaac-pitbull-cruz-for-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Roach Will Go Up to 140 Pounds to Face Isaac &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Cruz For Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning WBA junior lightweight champion, Lamont Roach Jr., will move up to 140 pounds to face Isaac &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Cruz for the WBC interim super lightweight title on December 6 at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. The announcement was made by Premier Boxing Champions.<\/p>\n<p>The fight will be the main event of a PBC pay-per-view on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs) changed course after a proposed rematch in August with Gervonta &#8220;Tank&#8221; Davis fell through, and his rival went on to face Jake Paul in an exhibition in November. Roach had a controversial majority draw against Davis in March.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of waiting for the result of the Paul-Davis fight, Roach will seek to become interim champion at 140 pounds, making this his third consecutive fight competing in a different weight class.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KOs) lost by a close decision to Davis in December 2021. Since then, he has had a record of 6-1, winning the vacant WBC super lightweight title in his last fight, when he defeated Omar Salcido in July.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, fighting from Mexico City, and his team see this fight as an opportunity to become the next big star in the country, calling it &#8220;the most important fight of his career&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning WBA junior lightweight champion, Lamont Roach Jr., will move up to 140 pounds to face Isaac &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Cruz for the WBC interim super lightweight title on December 6 at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio. The announcement was made by Premier Boxing Champions. The fight will be the main event of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,9388,9389,395],"class_list":{"0":"post-45597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-isaac-cruz","10":"tag-lamont-roach-jr","11":"tag-title"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}