{"id":36228,"date":"2025-12-07T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36228"},"modified":"2025-12-07T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:12:47","slug":"isaac-cruz-vs-lamont-roach-fight-start-time-where-to-watch-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=36228","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Cruz vs. Lamont Roach fight: Start time, where to watch, odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p>The two boxers best known for giving lightweight champion Gervonta &#8220;Tank&#8221; Davis his toughest pro tests to date will square off against one another on Saturday as Mexican star Isaac &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Cruz and Lamont Roach Jr. meet in a pay-per-view clash in San Antonio. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interim WBC junior welterweight title bout will serve as the headline bout of a Premier Boxing Champions card (Prime Video PPV, 8 p.m. ET) from the Frost Bank Center. In the co-main event, Stephen Fulton Jr. looks for a title in a third division when he faces WBC junior lightweight champion O&#8217;Shaquie Foster.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KOs), the diminutive slugger from Mexico City, fought Davis on short notice in 2021 and largely built his professional reputation upon the strong performance he gave in a close decision loss. Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs), an amateur rival of Davis from Maryland who still holds the WBA 130-pound title, fought &#8220;Tank&#8221; on even terms in a March lightweight bout but was forced to settle for a disputed majority draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) initially activated his immediate rematch clause with Roach until pulling out and instead signing for a November clash with YouTube star Jake Paul. That fight was canceled after Davis, who has a decorated history of legal issues, was named in a civil lawsuit by an ex-girlfriend accusing him of domestic violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, 27, a former 140-pound titleholder, will be headlining his first PPV card and is expected to have the Texas crowd very much on his side. But the 30-year-old Roach, who will be moving up in weight for the second straight fight, is no stranger to playing spoiler and enters as the betting favorite for a fight in which both headliners have the opportunity to truly announce themselves as independent stars.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to watch Cruz vs. Roach<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Saturday, Dec. 6 |\u00a0<strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Frost Bank Center &#8212; San Antonio, Texas<\/li>\n<li><strong>Start time:\u00a0<\/strong>8 p.m. ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>Streaming:<\/strong>\u00a0Prime Video PPV |<strong>\u00a0Price:\u00a0<\/strong>$74.99<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0&#8220;I could have never imagined five years ago when I was fighting in San Antonio that I&#8217;d be here now, but this is the fruits of my hard work,&#8221; Cruz said at Thursday&#8217;s final press conference. &#8220;I want to keep progressing and evolving and doing big things. I know what my fans expect of me, and I&#8217;ve done everything I could in training camp to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope [Roach] doesn&#8217;t run. It&#8217;s all about the fans and they want to see us go toe-to-toe. I&#8217;ll be ready to go for as long as he&#8217;s able to withstand the pressure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many in boxing believe Roach was robbed out of a second title in as many divisions against Davis, not just by the divisive scorecards but due to a voluntary knee &#8220;Tank&#8221; took in Round 9 that was incorrectly not ruled a knockdown by referee Steve Willis and would&#8217;ve resulted in a Roach upset win. Yet, Roach never harped one bit on the controversy, even during the immediate post-fight interview, and has kept an even keel about the experience that fuels him entering the Cruz fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It gets to a point where I&#8217;m very accepting. I had been through things in life that were similar or worse,&#8221; Roach told CBS Sports on Tuesday, looking back at the Davis fight. &#8220;It&#8217;s alright. I know that me doing what I have to do, me continuing on the path that I&#8217;m on, everything is going to be OK. I can&#8217;t dwell on the past, it just don&#8217;t work like that. It&#8217;s not going to change anything. The only way you get better is to learn and move on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I consider that a bump and bruise on my path. It brought a little light and that&#8217;s all I needed. Now we are advancing and getting bigger and getting better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roach said a victory over Cruz could lift him to any number of marquee fights across the 135 and 140-pound divisions. Cruz, meanwhile, believes the winner of Saturday&#8217;s fight should draw the winner of the Jan. 31 bout between WBO junior welterweight titleholder Teofimo Lopez Jr. and three-division champion Shakur Stevenson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the stakes are high in a fight that is expected to be contested at a high pace, featuring a mixture of technical boxing and two-way skirmishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is the complete PPV fight card for Saturday night in San Antonio with the latest odds.<\/p>\n<h2>Cruz vs. Roach fight card, odds<\/h2>\n<p>Odds via DraftKings Sportsbook<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lamont Roach Jr. -235 vs. Isaac Cruz (c) +180, interim WBC junior welterweight title<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Fulton -115 vs. O&#8217;Shaquie Foster (c) -110, WBC junior lightweight title<\/li>\n<li>Erislandy Lara (c) -700 vs. Johan Gonzalez +450, WBC middleweight title<\/li>\n<li>Jesus Ramos -1400 vs. Shane Mosley Jr. +700, junior middleweights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two boxers best known for giving lightweight champion Gervonta &#8220;Tank&#8221; Davis his toughest pro tests to date will square off against one another on Saturday as Mexican star Isaac &#8220;Pitbull&#8221; Cruz and Lamont Roach Jr. meet in a pay-per-view clash in San Antonio. \u00a0\u00a0 The interim WBC junior welterweight title bout will serve as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[15124,2171,12474,20272,865,20273,1587,286,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-36228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cruz","9":"tag-fight","10":"tag-isaac","11":"tag-lamont","12":"tag-odds","13":"tag-roach","14":"tag-start","15":"tag-time","16":"tag-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}