Upper Marlboro, MD's super featherweight Lamont Roach Jr. (18-0-1, 7 KO's) returns to the ring on Saturday, May 4th to battle former world title challenger Jonathan "Polvo" Oquendo (30-5, 19 KO's) of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, NV. The bout will be shown on DAZN as a featured contest on the Canelo Alvarez-Danny Jacobs card.
This will be a scheduled 10-round contest for Roach to defend his WBO Intercontinental Super Featherweight title and also fight for the vacant NABO title as well. The WBO has Roach ranked second and Oquendo is fifth, and this bout will be a WBO Eliminator.
Roach's first WBO Intercontinental title defense was on December 15th when he defeated Alberto Mercado by 10-round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Oquendo lost his shot for the WBA Featherweight title to Jesus Cuellar by unanimous decision on December 5th of 2015.
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