{"id":786086,"date":"2026-07-07T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786086\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:10:10","slug":"andy-cruzs-replacement-foe-is-abraham-montoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786086\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cruz&#8217;s replacement foe is Abraham Montoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Mexico\u2019s Abraham Montoya has been named the replacement opponent for Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz on the July 18 DAZN card in Carson, California, Cruz\u2019s advisor told BoxingScene Monday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cuba\u2019s Cruz, 6-1 (3 KOs), was due to fight lightweight contender Albert Bell, but Bell was summoned to replace England\u2019s Joe Cordina versus WBO lightweight champion Abdullah Mason in Cleveland on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mason defeated Bell by 12th-round stoppage in a tightly contested title bout.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That left Cruz with a void for the co-main event under the Diego Pacheco-Immanuwel Aleem super-middleweight main event on July 18 at Dignity Health Sports Park, an outdoor venue coined the \u201cwar grounds\u201d for its slew of all-action battles over the years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ranked No. 4 by the WBC and IBF, Cruz, coming off an IBF title loss to Raymond Muratalla in January, now faces a come-forward foe from Mexicali who\u2019s compiled a 24-7-1 ledger with 14 KOs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Montoya, 31, defeated former featherweight champion Joseph Diaz Jnr in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexico\u2019s Abraham Montoya has been named the replacement opponent for Olympic gold medalist Andy Cruz on the July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[134596,176133,703,711,710,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-786086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-abraham-montoya","tag-andy-cruz","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786086","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=786086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}