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EPISODE: Episode 40
Mike and Cedric discuss Rolando Florencio Romero Moreno, an American professional boxer who held the WBA interim lightweight title from 2020 to August 2021.
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What up my target fight fans, thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of knuckle up with myself by gorm, a man centered man in the den bringing you, the young, hungry, undefeated and undiscovered prospects from around the world, we’ll be the only ones doing it? And today we’re continuing with none other than mayweather promotions and we got a good one for you today be on the lookout for this kid to be fighting on the 28th of this month.
We’Re talking about rolando rolly romero.
Yes, this kid, this kid, 14-0 12 knockouts light division, he’s ranked 7th out of 296 in the us 19 out of 21 45 in the world, and this 5-8 orthodox fighter with a 68-inch reach, is taking on none other than jervante davis in a scheduled 12-round bout.
At barclay center in brooklyn on the 28th of this month, let’s talk about him.
Seti uh, mr romero, um very interesting that um he’s made it this far in such a short amount of time um.
Just i just recently heard that he only had eight amateur eight amateur boxing matches and he just turned pro in 2016.
I believe so yeah.
He literally only must have started boxing like in you know, 2013 or 14.
If that um, so you know that’s, that’s a very uh, that’s a very quick uh, quick rise to the top to the one of the tops of the mountain in gervante davis in such a short amount of time.
Um, he’s obviously got there by his power yeah with with that less that much you know, like he’s, basically a novice when you as a as an amateur boxer you when you have zero to ten fights, you’re considered a novice boxer zero to eight fights.
He stopped all eight, so yeah he knocked out every one of his amateur amateur opponents is that what is that? What it was yeah now he’s uh.
You know 12 out of 14 pro fights he’s not he’s.
He stopped the guy um, so uh yeah, and then it’s very interesting because it’s he definitely doesn’t even know.
He stands in an orthodox conventional boxing stance.
He does not fight in an in in an uh in a conventional.
You know orthodox way.
Like um, you know it’s not it’s kind of hard to predict what he does because he’s he’s he’s.
So he just fights like a street fighter.
That’S just learning, but he has that power that you have to respect him um.
So yeah man he’s he’s uh he’s he’s uh he’s different man he’s different yeah, definitely well in october 20, well, in october, of 2021 weeks after his belt with davis was announced, romero was the subject of numerous allegations of sexual assault.
Uh steven espinoza of showtime described them as disturbing and said that they were monitoring the situation.
No charges were filed.
However, the allegations could not be sustained, so that’s uh, some big big things going on there in this guy’s life and uh.
Honestly, it’s uh.
It’S got to be hard to uh.
You know shake something like that when you’re going into a fight like this, which is definitely a big test in this kid’s uh career man, uh romero, better known as rollies to his family and peers, was born and raised in uh north las vegas.
He recalls witnessing poverty and uh going to sleep to the sound of gunshots in his neighborhood as a child, romero was raised by his mother and father, whom he still has a close relationship with and comes from a family uh blessed with fighting abilities.
Romero’S father was a well-respected boxer out of cuba and former three-time national champion, and his sister is a former seven-time national judo champion romero began his fighting career at the age of nine uh when he started competing in judo uh.
He later took an interest in boxing.
After his father encouraged him to pick up the gloves at 16.
, so there you go.
He was 16 when he picked up those boxing gloves.
The young fighter began training at johnny tobacco’s gym where he met his current trainer, uh cromwell gordon bullet who trains him.
Alongside his father, after gaining experience in the spot, um inspiring fierce competition in vegas, his father took him to cuba to gain more knowledge and build his skill set as an amateur fighter.
Romero began his and he became his.
He began his amateur career in 2013 at 8 years old, started, collecting, wins early and was shortly faced with his first significant challenge in 2015, when he competed in the olympic trials.
Romero recalls the experience, a robbery uh, placing third and unable to move forward in the trials following this olympic experience, uh romero returned to las vegas and went back to training and competing his amateur career, actually consisted of 25 wins and 10 losses.
If you must know, i guess that’s with all tournaments and everything through mexico and in las vegas uh everything added up 25 wins 10 losses.
An independent decision was made by romero a year later in 2016, to begin sparring at the mayweather boxing club, with hopes of getting signed to help kick start.
His professional career, despite having a short amateur career romero, gained the attention of floyd mayweather.
His vicious sparring sessions, against top guys at the mayweather boxing club, resulted in knockouts um that pegged uh that peaked floyd’s interest, um romero was signed to mayweather promotions in november of 2016.
Romero made his professional debut in true knockout fashion, with a first round ko.
Just one minute, 11 seconds into the round on december, the 2nd 2016.
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Since then, romero has gone on to earn well now all 14 victories and 12 of those.
By way of knockout uh recent notable appearances included, the porti uh portier uh versus you guys, undercard uh, live from dignity, uh health sports park, where romero scored a knockout win against nicolas martinez, who’s, 11 and six with three kos and the garcia and grenadas undercard.
In april scoring yet another spectacular ko victory, uh versus andreas uh, figueroa uh, who was nine and five with five kos, which aired live on pbc on fox.
You guys might remember that it was a little way back.
But if you do remember, it was a great knockout of andreas figura, um, the knockout, the knockout hazmat.
This knockout artist has amassed a large following on social media um.
You know with his alluring personality and the massive fan base and around the world in all of his power and growing skills, romero looks ahead and remains focused mentally and physically, and he prepares to challenge the top contenders in this division and continue his ascension to the Top and that’s what we’re going to see this, i believe it’s this weekend coming man, the 28th so yeah.
It would be this weekend guys that this fight is going on so make sure that you tune into this one man, tank davis, looking to take on rolla.
Orlando rolly romero big step up for this kid in this fight.
We’Re gon na see the uh this this talent that everybody says that uh you know he’s got we’re gon na see true talent, uh.
You know he has gone and fought a bunch of notable names.
Has taken out some some some big names, but the true test is going to be tank davis and him.
You know javonte’s, 26 and all right now, this kid’s sitting at 14-0.
This is a big step up.
Gervante definitely has a lot more ring experience um.
Let’S touch on that a little bit center.
What do you? What do you think is going to happen here in this situation? Um, i’m expecting a spectacular knockout from devonta davis, but it’ll be um.
I think it’s going to take a little a little extra while to figure out just because uh rolly, like i said, he’s it’s very hard to time him or try to predict what he’s going to do when he probably doesn’t know what he’s going to do.
Because he’s just going off a reaction right, because sometimes certain patterns of punches come after each other, when, when a certain punch, when a certain, when the boxer throws a certain punch, you can kind of predict what it’s coming.
After.
You know basics kind of like a simple one.
Two there’s other symbol: combinations like that too, but with rowley he’s so unorthodox, it’s hard to predict where that first one’s coming from so they could take a couple of rounds for for germany to figure him out, but um.
Let’S go with the sixth round ko about.
You know what you know, what i’m gon na say: i’m gon na stick with javonte too, but i’m gon na say it’s gon na.
I think i think it’s gon na go a little later man.
I think it’s gon na go deep into the ninth.
I’M gon na say.
Ninth round ninth round is what i’m thinking that uh dante’s gon na end this one uh, but it’s gon na be nice to see the way uh.
If that, if that outcome does happen like that or if uh you know, we all get surprised, because this is boxing, it only takes one certain punch, uh, you know to to ruin man’s night and uh have the outcome of the fight uh way in a different.
In a different direction, so, to be honest, it’ll be nice to see this kid win.
If he does it’ll be a huge step up for him.
Definitely, but if he does lose um, it’s going to be nice to see how he bounces back from this loss, because you know this is a huge step up for him.
He has taken on the top in the division and um.
You know it’s it’ll be it’ll, be nice to see the way that he handles himself.
The way his management team will we’ll bring him down off this off this loss, uh, which i think it’s going to be a loss.
You think it’s going to be a loss, but none other than you know that we we got to talk about him.
It shows about him today, rolando rolly romero be on the lookout.
For this kid he is fighting gervanti tank davis.
This is going to be a good one guys.
This is saturday, i believe the 28th uh bart place center brooklyn, it’s a big card uh.
This is the this is the headliner for it so guys be on the lookout for a man’s for the wba world.
Light title: you know it’s going to be good, you know we’re going to be watching it.
You know we’re going to be talking about it, and maybe maybe this would be the highlight of the you know the highlight fight of the weekend, and maybe this will be the knockout we’ll see but uh guys thanks for joining us today, man, i’m knuckle up.
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You know what it’s about cedric.
What? What do you want to say before we get out of here? Uh man shout out shout out to rolly, for, like i said man, it’s a that’s a big accomplishment for reaching this level um this early in your boxing career in general, not just appropriate, but just yeah, the first time putting on a pair of gloves – and you Know less than less than 10 years later you’re playing one of the top guys in the world exactly so uh, that’s a crazy, crazy jump to that level.
So exactly yeah much respect for him for getting there fast with.
That being said, i’m not sure if he’s gon na be able to pass this test, i don’t know either.
I don’t know, i don’t think he’s gon na be able to pass it either, but hey listen.
This is why we have these fights.
This is why things like this happen, obviously why they fight the fight.
This is why they fight the fight.
That’S why they work their ass off to get in that you know, get in that camp get in.
There work your ass off to get in that.
That ring and perform to your best ability and that’s what we’re gon na get out of him for sure – is him performing at his best ability.
We got two undefeateds going against each other, putting that belt up on the line javonte, you know what it’s gon na make a great fight either way you look at it, but shout out to our man roland sorry, orlando rolly romero, yo man be on the lookout For this kid, even after this weekend, he’s got a long career ahead of him only been boxing for 10 years man and look at the level that he’s at already so guys.
You know what to do.
Man join us tomorrow same time same channel female friday, mayweather promotions, continuation, we’ll see you, then man knuckle up.
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