{"id":332665,"date":"2025-12-07T11:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332665\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T11:37:19","slug":"isaac-cruz-v-lamont-roach-cruz-retains-wbc-title-with-controversial-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332665\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Cruz v Lamont Roach: Cruz retains WBC title with controversial draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, O&#8217;Shaquie Foster made light work of fellow American Stephen Fulton to win the WBC interim lightweight title by majority decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight was scheduled to be for Foster&#8217;s WBC super-featherweight title, but Fulton came in 2lb overweight at Friday&#8217;s weigh-in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foster outboxed Fulton to win 117-111, 118-110 and 119-109 on the judges&#8217; scorecards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foster became the mandatory challenger to the winner of the fight between WBO light-welterweight champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5y26wp1d65o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teofimo Lopez and Shakur Stevenson<\/a> on 31 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Erislandy Lara retained his WBA middleweight title with a dominant win against Venezuela&#8217;s Johan Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cuban-American Lara, 42, scored two knockdowns and looked sharp despite fighting for the first time since a stoppage win against Danny Garcia in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lara floored Gonzalez &#8211; a late replacement this week after Janibek Alimkhanuly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cp89jg3znn8o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failed a drugs test<\/a> &#8211; in the first and last rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judges scored the fight 118-108, 119-107 and 120-106.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, O&#8217;Shaquie Foster made light work of fellow American Stephen Fulton to win the WBC interim lightweight title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}