Comments Thread For: Rolly Romero: Big pay, looming fights 'messing up the sport'

[Nightfall]

The business side of everything always show its ugly head

[57Blues]

Garbage fights and garbage-- head fighters and they still are trying to spin the results and make traction................

[Butt stuff]

Rolly should fight Conner Benn

This is THE fight. Well matched, and both kind of restarted.

[Teetotaler23]

Just last week, William Scull was there to survive. Sadly, Canelo did the minimum possible to win and avoid risking an injury that would jeopardize his upcoming $100 million fight with Crawford. Over the years, I have seen loads of fighters who avoid engaging and just dance and run around the ring.

Yeah but the original point rolly was making "they go in there to survive cause they got the next fight/paycheck coming". That wasn't the case at all with scull

[Teetotaler23]

He's saying ( i assume ) since the bivol fight canelo has been fighting bums and avoiding harder fights like the monster. Teo hasn't had a unification fight in a while. I don't think Haney trys to "survive" but he will now after the Ryan fight.

That's not his point. He literally just hates them cause they're on dazn

[boxingitis]

He may well be beaten by Jaron Ennis and Brian Norman Junior 'But he would have genuinely earned the right, to compete in those fights. Nobody within the boxing community should be criticising or attempting to devalue what Romero has just achieved'.

I get that certain folk within society and the boxing community are Glory Hunters 'And those people will find it extremely difficult to appreciate fighters who are not World to Elite level fighters but are clearly way above domestic level. Rolly Romero is a fighter operating at that sort of level in the game'.

From the very first moment this fight was announced, I gave Rolly Romero a serious chance of winning 'Whether he wins or loses, he has always produces a solid effort. And in my opinion? There was not much difference between Garcia's and Romero's effort vs Gervonta Tank Davis. Rolly Romero was just knocked out earlier than Ryan Garcia. For as long as both fights lasted, I think Romero was pushing Tank Davis in a competitive fight'.

Note: I think people should just keep the fight in context 'It was a matchup between two popular, entertaining and intriguing fighters. Neither fighter has really proven themselves to be unequivocally a World level fighter. But out of the two fighters, Rolly Romero was the only former World Champion so that at least proves that he is a solid fighter'.

But let's get one thing right? Rolly Romero did not 'Get Lucky' vs Ryan Garcia 'Romero straight up beat him, and was the better fighter'. I have stated just yesterday, that Rolly Romero was picked by the powers that be backing Ryan Garcia for a reason? Because they thought it would be a entertaining fight, but one were Garcia was highly likely to win in very impressive fashion. That was the media narrative and status quo being promoted by the media machine backing Ryan Garcia'.

Well Rolly Romero improvised and went off script; it had nothing to do with being lucky 'It was all due to his own work ethic and ability, showing on fight night vs Ryan Garcia'.

To conclude: I am not going to devalue Rolly Romero's win by making the excuse that Ryan Garcia has underperformed. Garcia has never shown any signs that he is a miles better fighter than Rolly Romero. The only people giving Romero no chance, was most likely the American based media who completely overrate their boxing prospects. In fact when you analyse the two fighters from a pure technical perspective, I would rate Rolly Romero as the marginally better fighter. Ryan Garcia has only in his career been able to legitimate win one top level fights, and that was against Luke Campbell in the latter part of his career. A fight where he was decked and skill for skill in my opinion Campbell was still clearly the better boxer throughout the large majority of the fight, unfortunately for him just got caught with a body punch which he did not recover from. Credit to Ryan Garcia for that performance'.

So yes, In New York Times Square, the stage was set for Ryan Garcia to win a comeback fight in impressive fashion 'Garcia did not win, and he was beaten by the better fighter in Rolly Romero. I have stated this in some of my previous posts in regards to this fight? Ryan Garcia career has just entered into a new chapter, he can no longer rely in the media machine backing him, to amplify and embellish his performances. Garcia is going to have to genuinely and legitimately win top level fights if he wants to prove that he is a World level fighter' etc.

Let's GET ONE THING Right. I said he got LUCKY getting the fight. I did not say he was LUCKY IN THE MATCH.

[boxingitis]

The point is he “got lucky” because he was willing to take a risk (you even said he was picked to lose) and I imagine he would fight Boots or Norman if given the opportunity

So getting payed a load of Money is RISK?

[Smash]

So getting payed a load of Money is RISK?

no its REWARD

[Oldskoolg]

Rolly’s speaking facts. This whole “if the money is right” mentality is truly destroying boxing

[Verus]

Yeah but the original point rolly was making "they go in there to survive cause they got the next fight/paycheck coming". That wasn't the case at all with scull

Good point! I don't know why Scull didn't engage. He had nothing to lose, as they say. The only thing he did by running and jumping around was to make himself unmarketable.