Alexis Rocha lands four body shots on Juice Unlocked's CEO, then goes live

On the evening of Thursday, April 9, 2026, Juice Unlocked's CEO strapped on a blue Everlast body protector outside a Suavecito Pomade trailer in Santa Ana and let welterweight Alexis Rocha throw four shots to the body. The reel, posted with Rocha as a collaborator, ended with a promise to go live on YouTube at 7:30 p.m.

The live followed. Juice Unlocked's YouTube channel lists a stream titled "Alexis Rocha CALLS OUT Ryan Garcia & Barboza After Big Win" that started that night and runs about an hour and 27 minutes. Host Matt Allenn introduced Rocha as "a real Orange County legend" with his own mural in the city.

The big win

On March 14, 2026, Rocha beat former IBF junior lightweight champion Joseph "JoJo" Diaz Jr. by unanimous decision over 10 rounds at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Boxing247 reported. The scores were 100-90, 98-92 and 97-93, leaving Rocha at 26-2-1 with 16 knockouts, the same record he gave on the stream.

Rocha said he had been inactive for 15 months after surgery, and that Golden Boy Promotions and Oscar De La Hoya gave him the Diaz fight. He called Diaz a "tremendous fighter" with "the heart of a lion."

“They thought it was just for the internet. No, man, I'm really about to go bodies.”

Who he wants next

Asked who stands between him and a title, Rocha named Ryan Garcia, Devin Haney, Rolly Romero and another champion. He said he called out Garcia after the Diaz win because "Ryan Garcia is the one of the best in my division" and he knows he could beat him.

He called a fight with Arnold Barboza, a fellow Golden Boy fighter, "a perfect fight to make in the future." Rocha said the two spoke respectfully in the ring after Barboza's Honda Center win, but that Barboza later posted that he wanted a world champion, "not someone that can't make weight."

“I just took body shots for y'all, man. Tune in right now.”

The weight cut

Rocha addressed that jab directly. He said that in his first scheduled fight after the layoff, he passed out several times while cutting the final pounds, was taken to the emergency room and never made it to the scales, and the fight was scrapped. He called weight cutting "the fight before the fight."

That account lines up with Boxing247's January 2026 report that Rocha withdrew from a scheduled Jan. 16 rematch with Raul Curiel at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert after "a medical emergency during his weight cut forced hospitalization."

Santa Ana roots

Rocha said he was born and raised in Santa Ana and still lives there. He said he went to McFadden Intermediate and was drifting toward the wrong crowd before boxing, and that his brother Ronnie Rios and coach Hector Lopez helped steer him to Golden Boy.

He credited his mural to artist Jose Ortiz and Councilman Jonathan Hernandez, and said it was painted over months later after the property changed hands. Rocha said Hernandez had publicly promised to work on getting something done for him.