Thursday, April 11, 2019

Roach Battles Oquendo May 4th In Las Vegas!

Undefeated Upper Marlboro, MD super featherweight Lamont Roach, Jr. will return to action on Saturday, May 4th when he battles Jonathan "Polvo" Oquendo of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV.  The bout will be a feature contest on the Canelo Alvarez-Danny Jacobs card and will be shown on DAZN.

There will be a lot riding on this contest.  The 10-round bout will be for Roach's WBO International Super Featherweight championship and for the vacant NABO Super Featherweight title.  Reportedly, this will also be a WBO Eliminator bout as both men are ranked by the WBO -- Roach is second and Oquendo is fifth.

Roach (18-0-1, seven KO's) is coming off a 10-round unanimous decision win over Alberto Mercado on December 15th at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  This was the first defense of his WBO International title. Oquendo (30-5, 19 KO's) is a former world title challenger who lost a bid for the WBA Featherweight title to Jesus Cuellar by unanimous decision in December of 2015.  Since that loss, Oquendo has won four straight bouts including an eight-round unanimous decision win over Deivi Julio Bassa on December 8th in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.  Roach won his WBO International title with a sixth-round stoppage win over Bassa on July 20th in Cancun, Mexico.

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