Overview
- Judges returned scores of 113-113, 113-113 and 115-111 for Cruz after 12 rounds at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center.
- Isaac Cruz scored a third-round knockdown, then lost a point in round seven for a kidney/back punch under referee James Green.
- CompuBox tallied Roach landing 191 of 467 to Cruz’s 159 of 544, with Roach out-landing him in eight rounds and posting higher power accuracy.
- Lamont Roach insisted he won, demanded an immediate rematch, and said he fought through a suspected injury to his right hand.
- O'Shaquie Foster dominated Stephen Fulton by unanimous decision in an interim lightweight bout after Fulton missed weight, and Erislandy Lara outpointed late replacement Johan Gonzalez to retain his WBA middleweight title after Janibek Alimkhanuly’s meldonium positive canceled their planned unification.