Rolly Romero not solely scored an enormous upset win over Ryan Garcia tonight, however he did it in a style that might have been least anticipated, incomes the win through unanimous resolution over 12 rounds.
Judges scored the struggle 115-112, 115-112, and 118-109 for Romero, and the win for Rolly will put some critical doubt on the anticipated rematch between Garcia and Devin Haney, who did win however didn’t look good on the undercard.
If Romero (17-2, 13 KO) was thought to have any actual shot on the upset tonight, it might have been due to his energy, which we did see flashed within the second spherical when he dropped Garcia (24-2, 21 KO) on a left hook.
However from there, Romero merely boxed conservatively — very conservatively, in truth, as he and Garcia mixed to throw a reported third-lowest complete of punches in a 12-round struggle in CompuBox’s lengthy historical past of monitoring these numbers. That was sufficient to carry off Garcia, who by no means actually regarded like himself, didn’t actually present any of his velocity or explosiveness, and had clearly the worst night time of his skilled profession.
It wasn’t an enormous shock that Romero’s awkwardness gave Garcia some early bother, nor that he was in a position to land an excellent shot and put Ryan down. However up to now, high quality opponents have been in a position to get to Rolly and take over the struggle. That by no means occurred tonight, and actually, by no means appeared all that near occurring.
Even if you happen to had Garcia rallying a bit within the center rounds, when actually neither of them have been doing a lot of something, Ryan by no means regarded very harmful and Rolly by no means regarded uncomfortable.
It’s a disastrous return to motion for Garcia, who hadn’t fought since incomes a suspension following his overturned bout with Haney in April 2024, having failed the post-fight drug check. For Romero, it’s an enormous burst of recent life for a profession that appeared it had reached its peak.
“He’s a warrior, he obtained up and completed the struggle,” Romero mentioned of Garcia. He additionally mentioned he thinks Garcia and Haney ought to nonetheless do their rematch, and prevented answering if he’d prefer to struggle Haney himself.
“Rolly fought an excellent struggle. He caught me early. No excuses, congrats to him. He did an incredible job and that’s that,” Garcia mentioned. “I believe that (yr off) took rather a lot off my physique, bodily and mentally. I’m simply blissful I made it to the ring and fought 12 rounds. Hats off to Rolly, he did an incredible job.”
“We’ll go to the drafting board, discuss it over, and see what we do subsequent,” Garcia mentioned when requested what’s subsequent.
