Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz vs José Valenzuela // ESPN

Isaac ‘Pitbull’ Cruz [Mexico City] vs José Valenzuela [Sinaloa].

Saturday, Aug. 3, at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles on ESPN+ PPV, 3p.m.

About Cruz:

Cruz (26-2-1, 18 KOs) will make the first defense of the title he won last month with an eighth-round TKO victory over Rolly Romero.

That was Cruz’s first fight at 140 pounds. The 25-year-old Mexican has won four fights since a close-decision defeat to Gervonta Davis in December 2021. Cruz is ESPN’s No. 5 junior welterweight.

Valenzuela (13-2, 9 KOs) is coming off a brutal sixth-round KO win over Chris Colbert in a December rematch. The 24-year-old Mexican lost his two previous bouts, a decision defeat to Colbert and a third-round KO at the hands of Edwin De Los Santos. This will be Valenzuela’s 140-pound debut.

Full card:

Title fight: Terence Crawford vs. Israil Madrimov, 12 rounds, for Madrimov’s WBA “super” junior middleweight title and the vacant WBO interim junior middleweight title

Title fight: Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz vs. Jose Valenzuela, 12 rounds, for Cruz’s WBA junior welterweight title

Title fight: David Morrell vs. Radivoje Kalajdzic, 12 rounds, for the WBA vacant “regular” light heavyweight title

Andy Ruiz vs. Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller, 10 rounds, heavyweight

Jared Anderson vs. Martin Bakole, 10 rounds, heavyweight

Andy Cruz vs. Antonio Moran, 10 rounds, lightweight

Steven Nelson vs. Marcos Vazquez Rodriguez, 100 rounds, super middleweights

Ziyad Almaayouf vs. Michal Bulik, 6 rounds, welterweights.

Video: their last fights!