Junior lightweight Lamont Roach Jr. (17-0-1, 7 KOs) rebounded from a controversial draw in his previous fight to score a TKO victory over Deivi Julio Bassa (20-5, 12 KOs) at the start of the seventh round in a scheduled 10-rounder on Friday.
The bout was the main event of a Golden Boy on ESPN card from Grand Oasis Cancun in Cancun, Mexico. Roach is from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, while Julio Bassa is from Monteria, Colombia. In the co-feature, Juan Sanchez (24-6-1, 11 KOs) overcame a knockdown to win a unanimous eight-round decision over Florentino Perez (13-3-1, 7 KOs) in a battle of Mexican featherweights.
Perez, of Monterrey, floored Sanchez, of Los Mochis, with a flush right to the head in the second. Sanchez, however, beat the count and out-boxed and outpunched Perez the rest of the way to win by scores of 76-75, 77-74 and 78-73.
In the TV opener, Cancun’s Alexis “El Peje” Bastar (12-1-1, 5 KOs) held off Mexico City’s Rigoberto “Mowgly” Nava (3-2-2) to win a unanimous decision by triples scores of 57-56 in a fast-paced six-round junior featherweight bout.