Upper Marlboro, MD junior lightweight contender Lamont Roach Jr. scored a ten-round unanimous decision over Alberto Mercado of Humacao, P.R., on the undercard of the Canelo Alvarez-Rocky Fielding super middleweight fight on Saturday December 15 at Madison Square Garden. Roach Jr. won by scores of 99-91, 98-92, 97-93.
Roach started to landed some big left hooks in the fourth-round that bothered Mercado. He also started to use the basic jab to set up more openings to land different types of punches. In the sixth and seventh rounds Roach Jr. started to find a home for the right hook also.
Roach Jr. defended his WBO title and remains undefeated at (18-0-1, 7 KO's) as Mercado drops to (15-2-1, 3 KO's).
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