However, Saturday’s event was the highest-grossing and most-attended boxing event in the venue’s history at 18,970 attendees. The fight was pretty even statistically, with Davis only out-landing Romero 25-22, but with a significant edge in punch accuracy (30 percent to 19 percent), according to CompuBox. While the numbers don’t support Rolly’s claim of winning every round, he makes a solid case to be treated like a marquee talent. I jumped into something and ate a stupid shot.” Bad Guy Box Office

“I exposed him and won every single round.

After the fight, Romero stated his intention of a rematch and said so repeatedly at the post-fight press conference. Then he followed it up with his next act: defiance. For an audience that only knew his soundbites, Romero showed them that he could box, he could bang, and he could make them mad. Davis knew Romero was looking for that one knockout shot partially because Romero said he would do so repeatedly. Romero stalked Davis the whole fight and fashioned himself the bully to a cautious tank. I got to loosen him up a little more.”įor a 14-1 fighter that only has held an interim belt he was stripped of, Romero earned the respect of the heir apparent to the Mayweather Promotions kingdom. There was someone in the crowd, and they were telling me to press forward and I was like, not yet. “I know when to take it to my opponents and when to chill out. “He was strong for sure, but there were a couple shots that I was getting warmed up with and he caught me and I was like, ‘I can’t sit with him just yet,'” said Davis. Still, he gave Rolly a modicum of respect. In a highly anticipated event, the fierce rivals finally settled their war of words in the ring, although the early rounds saw the fighters essentially feeling each other out.ĭavis (27-0, 25 KOs), a three-division world champion, showed off his movement and boxing abilities through those rounds, while Romero (14-1, 12 KOs) promised the first-round knockout but was unable to hurt Davis despite pushing the pace initially. Romero has earned his polarization in an industry where the bad guy is both celebrated and loathed for being bold enough to step into a veritable lion’s den with no quarter sought or given.

Rolly should get your respect because he faced the juggernaut in the face in fifteen minutes and captured the world’s attention. He spewed this claim in the lead-up to his now record-breaking fight against Gervonta “Tank” Davis, not just for the constant trash talk, although it was partly from a promotional standpoint.

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