Ryan Garcia’s fight against Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero will have the WBA ‘ordinary’ welterweight title on the line for their headliner on Turki Al-Sheikh’s map in May at Times Square.
None of the fighters are arranged in the WBA’s Top 15 at 147 or by one of the other three sanctions in the division. Former WBA Light Welterweight Champion Rolly, 29, is 140 at 140, but not at 147.
Undeserved title shots
Fans feel that there should be no belt at stake for the fight, because Ryan Garcia comes from a one -year suspension because he was beaten for a PED in April last year. Going from a suspension straight to a world title looks so bad. I don’t know what to say about it. If your Rolly is fighting for a title, it looks even worse.
By The ringRyan (24-1, 20 foods) and Rolly (16-2, 13 COs) will fight around the WBA ‘ordinary’ welterweight title.
It is unclear what the Rationale of the World Boxing Association is to their ‘ordinary’ Welterweight title for the Garcia vs. To have romero conflict. Yet it makes sense in terms of publicity to fight through these two.
Just for show
If the WBA secondary belt is fought, the Ryan-Rolly battle will validate in the eyes of some fans. It would look better if the fight was an eliminator for a belt rather than for a title, as no man fought. With the way things are now, It makes the battle cheap To have a title on the line for which Garcia and Romero do not deserve to fight for.
Rolly was knocked out by Isaac Cruz on March 30 in the eighth round and will arrive an uninterested unanimous decision of 10 round on September 14 against second -level fighter Manuel Jimes.
Fans consider Romero as a low-level fighter. His 140-pound WBA victory over Ismael Barroso in May 2023 was one of the most controversial matches I’ve ever seen. The fight was creepy.
Rolly threw five strokes, all missing, and the referee stepped in and stopped the fight and gave him a ninth round victory over Barroso. It looked wrong. In Rolly’s first defense of his WBA belt, he was blown out of the water by Pitbull Cruz.
Romero is more like a comedian than a boxer, and he never hit anyone without controversy. His controversial victories over Barroso and Jackson Marinez were disturbing because he earned defeats in both fights.
