Lamont Roach approached his fight with Isaac Cruz in the exact dangerous manner he promised.

Roach’s reward for standing and trading with the hard-hitting Mexican, overcoming a third-round knockdown and delivering an entertaining slugfest was a second straight controversial majority draw Saturday night at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.

Judge Chris Tellez scored their fight for Cruz, 115-111, but he was overruled by Nathan Palmer and Cory Santos, both of whom scored it a draw, 113-113 apiece.

A deeply disappointed Roach (25-1-3, 10 KOs), of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was crestfallen following another majority draw nine months after he believes he was robbed of an upset victory over Gervonta Davis.

“All I want is a fair shake man, that’s it,” Roach told Premier Boxing Champions’ Brian Campbell in the ring. “I think I pulled that fight out, a close victory. This is some [expletive], man. I clearly thought I won.”

Cruz complained that referee James Green cost him what would’ve been a close but unanimous win when he deducted a point in the seventh round for hitting Roach on his back.

“I won this fight,” Cruz said, “and the referee took this fight from me.”

Mexico City’s Cruz, 27, retained his WBC interim junior welterweight title.

Roach, 30, fought for the first time since his controversial majority draw with the heavily favored Davis on March 1 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Davis exercised his contractual right to an immediate rematch, but it was never announced because Davis agreed to face Jake Paul in an ill-fated fight that was canceled once an ex-girlfriend accused Davis of domestic violence.

Roach took an aggressive approach to the 12th round against Cruz (28-3-2, 18 KOs), even though he could’ve justifiably believed he had built a lead after overcoming his slow start. Cruz and Roach both landed flush punches in those final three minutes.

Cruz cracked Roach with a right hand in an exchange late in the 11th round, but Roach took it well and traded with his dangerous opponent. That sequence was still the most success Cruz experienced in several rounds.

Roach taunted Cruz by suggesting he was the matador in the middle minute of the 10th round. He made Cruz miss most of his punches in those three minutes.

Roach fought off his front foot again in the ninth round, when Cruz tried to box and move, rarly standing his ground during that frame.

Cruz’s left hook caught Roach at the halfway mark of the eighth round. Roach was the aggressor again in that round, though, and appeared to frustrate Cruz, taunting Roach by sticking out his tongue toward the end of it.

Green took a point from Cruz with 1:19 to go in the seventh round for hitting Roach on the lower part of his back. A counter left hook by Roach knocked Cruz off balance about 40 seconds into the seventh, in which Roach landed hard shots and caused Cruz to hold him.

Roach’s right hand was effective on the inside during the sixth round. He took some clean shots from Cruz to land those punches, but built some momentum in that round.

For the second straight round, Green warned Cruz for a low blow about 25 seconds into the fifth. Cruz caught Roach with another left a little less than a minute into the fifth. A right by Cruz clipped Roach just after the halfway point of the fifth too.

Despite suffering a knockdown in the third round, Roach stood in front of Cruz and fought with him when the fourth round began. They traded right hands during a violent exchange at the midway mark of the fourth.

Cruz also landed a low blow that caused a brief break in the action in that round.

Cruz caught Roach with a left hook that turned Roach around and forced him to use his right glove to keep himself from going down with just under a minute to go in the third round. That counted as the first knockdown of Roach’s career.

Roach recovered well enough to make it to the end of the third round.

A right hand by Cruz connected in the middle of the second round. He landed a left hook and followed with a right hand later in an action-packed second stanza.

Cruz was unsurprisingly aggressive as soon as the opening bell rang. He got inside and landed several clean punches before a counter left by Roach knocked Cruz off balance toward the end of the first round.