{"id":12961,"date":"2025-07-21T12:49:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12961\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:49:17","slug":"pitbull-cruz-routs-omar-salcido-wins-interim-wbc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/12961\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitbull Cruz routs Omar Salcido, wins interim WBC title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz picked up the interim WBC super lightweight title with a one-sided win over Omar Salcido on tonight\u2019s Pacquiao vs Barrios undercard in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KO) won the fight on scores of 99-89, 99-89, and 100-88. Bad Left Hook unofficially scored it 100-88 and 100-88, both in favor of Cruz. Cruz was ruled to score a knockdown in the 12th and final round, and Salcido also was penalized a point in that round, which was really long overdue.<\/p>\n

Cruz, 27, didn\u2019t have any real trouble in this fight beyond getting Salcido (20-3, 14 KO) to engage as much as he would have liked him to, as it seemed clear that Salcido felt the fight out early and just went into \u201csurvival\u201d mode, holding a lot and avoiding action as much as he could against the hard-charging \u201cPitbull,\u201d whose one-speed approach didn\u2019t do him any favors in getting Salcido to change tactics, either.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second straight loss for the 25-year-old Salcido, following a wide points defeat to Andy Cruz in January, and a second straight win for Cruz after his WBA title loss to Jose Valenzuela in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Salcido was in the fight on extremely short notice, as just yesterday, he replaced the originally scheduled Angel Fierro<\/a>, who fell ill during his weight cut this week.<\/p>\n

Pitbull vs Salcido highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz picked up the interim WBC super lightweight title with a one-sided win over Omar Salcido…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6585,2560,6102,6588,8741,448,6587,8746,6586,8743,8740,8742,8744,101,7316,56,54,55,8747,8745],"class_list":["post-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-bad","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-results","tag-cruz","tag-front-page","tag-hook","tag-interim","tag-left","tag-omar","tag-pitbull","tag-routs","tag-salcido","tag-sports","tag-title","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wbc","tag-wins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}