{"id":330658,"date":"2025-12-07T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:49:12","slug":"lamont-roach-sounds-off-on-controversial-draw-vs-isaac-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330658\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamont Roach Sounds Off On Controversial Draw vs Isaac Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4l\">Despite producing two of the best performances of his boxing career in his two most recent bouts, Lamont Roach has had a brutal 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4o\">The first of these performances came against Gervonta &#8220;Tank&#8221; Davis for Davis&#8217; WBC lightweight belt on March 1. Despite many believing that Roach did enough to hand Tank his first professional loss (not to mention that Tank got off easy after taking a knee that wasn&#8217;t ruled a knockdown), the fight was ruled a majority draw.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4r\">Roach and Tank were supposed to rematch before Tank allegedly breached his contract and decided to fight Jake Paul instead (which was eventually cancelled). Therefore, Roach took a fight against Isaac Cruz for Cruz&#8217;s WBC interim junior welterweight title, which took place on December 6. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"4u\">Once again, many felt like Roach deserved to get his hand raised after a hard-fought fight against Cruz, where Roach was dropped in the third round. But one judge ultimately scored the fight 115-111 in favor of Cruz, while the other two judges scored it 113-113. Therefore, Roach has received his second straight majority draw. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The moment Isaac &#8216;Pitbull&#8217; Cruz knocked down Lamont Roach Jr \ud83d\ude33<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1qb27BIuNI\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/1qb27BIuNI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ringmagazine\/status\/1997530790650052900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a>Lamont Roach Rips Draw Verdict Against Isaac Cruz<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"53\">Lamont Roach spoke with the media after Saturday&#8217;s draw verdict and made his frustration apparent. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"56\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know why [Cruz&#8217;s team] thought the ref was on my side, when I got hit low a lot. I got hit low a lot&#8230; And he was holding every exchange,&#8221; Roach said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sean_Zittel\/status\/1997558226758557739\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">an X post <\/a>from Sean Zittel. &#8220;I just wish it was an even playing field.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"59\">Roach also added, &#8220;Two [draws] in a row, it\u2019s crazy. I can\u2019t fight my opponent and fight the judges. It&#8217;s just something we gotta do about it. Something we gotta do about it. I think I won, and I think I definitely outboxed him. All I need is an even playing field, that&#8217;s all,&#8221; per another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Sean_Zittel\/status\/1997561105007386688\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X post<\/a> from Zittel. He also mentioned that he broke his hand in the fifth round.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/01jzxewznzqvv4v6q4ps.jpg\" alt=\"Lamont Roach\" title=\"Lamont Roach\" width=\"5416\" height=\"3046\" class=\"undefined w-full w-full blur-[5px]\" q:id=\"5i\"\/><\/p>\n<p>IMAGO \/ ZUMA Press Wire<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">&#8220;All I want is a fair shake, man. That&#8217;s it. I think I pulled that fight out&#8230; I don&#8217;t know what I got to do. But we&#8217;re going to go back to the drawing board. I don&#8217;t accept this at all. I clearly thought I won a close fight, and I&#8217;m tired of this s***, man,&#8221; Roach said during his post-fight press conference, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/47231152\/isaac-cruz-retains-title-majority-draw-lamont-roach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an article from ESPN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5p\">It&#8217;s hard not to feel for Roach after that has been a tumultuous year, to say the least. But the bottom line is that he has now proved twice that he&#8217;s a championship-caliber fighter and is in a great position to rematch Cruz next year, in what will be an even bigger fight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">The Latest Boxing News<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite producing two of the best performances of his boxing career in his two most recent bouts, Lamont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-330658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}