Rollie boxing1/17/2024 ![]() All kinds of weird things were happening. “Then, in the third round, my entire left arm went numb. My body started letting go of water for no reason. “I was like, ‘Y’all got to turn off some of those lights.’ Dude, I put my hand up where the vent is at, and the AC was on. I’m like, ‘Why in the hell is it so hot in here? Y’all turned on the heater. I was warming up, and I felt like I was in a sauna. “I was in the back room, and Showtime has their lights on you. Read: On This Day: The Great Joe Louis Goes Pro I felt horrible,” said Rolly when asked how he felt physically on the night that he fought Gervonta Davis. I felt so bad that I literally lost my hair. In the modern weight cut, people are killing themselves to make weight. “Your body doesn’t absorb the water properly. That’s why when you look late in their careers, the fighters that stay closer to their weight are a lot more durable. “People that are at their weight class, they’re a lot more durable than fighters that cut down. When you lose that kind of weight, your body doesn’t absorb the water. “People don’t know this, but when you cut that kind of weight because I lost 17 pounds in a day. I would have been way more stronger, more explosive, more durable,” said Rolly when asked how much of a difference it would have been had he fought Tank Davis at 140 instead of 135. It was a lot of stuff going on in that whole situation. That’s why when I fought Tank, I was saying, ‘I want Gervonta at 140,’ because I knew I couldn’t. I really shouldn’t have been at 135 anymore. “My body grew so much that I couldn’t make 135. Read: Jaron Ennis defeats Roiman Villa - Boxing results ![]() “They all want to get in the ring until they look me in the eye, and it’s like, ‘No, no, no, no, no.’ I’ve been trying to move up for two and a half years. “Even at the weigh-in, I’ve had people pull out of fights,” said Rolly. Y’all are going to tune in anyways,” Rolando said. “I don’t want to give you guys my insight and my game plan for this one. It’s going to be a fun one,” said Rolly when asked for a prediction for his fight tonight against Barroso. “I feel like like that’s something big that needs to happen again. I had a good time, and I was the promoter of the year. Just even the lead-up and everything, it was a hysterical lead-up. ![]() “I think everybody would want to see this again and go over it again. “Hey man, I got unfinished business,” said Rolly when asked if he’ll call out Gervonta Davis if he’s victorious tonight against Barroso. ![]() I don’t believe I’m fighting that person until the bell rings,” said Rolly Romero to Sportings News on his opponent for tonight’s fight being switched from Alberto Puello to Ismael Barroso. “It ain’t the first time, and it ain’t the last time. Read: Oscar De La Hoya says Vergil Ortiz Jr moving to 154 Preview: Rolly wants Tank next if victorious tonight After that round, Rolly was hurt continuously in each round up until the strange stoppage in the ninth. In round three, Barroso dropped Rolly to the canvas afteer catching him with a counter shot. The Mayweather-promoted Rolly Romero is now the WBA 140-lb champion,m and it’s predictable that there’s going to be a big push for a rematch with Gervonta Davis. The time of the stoppage was at 2:41 of round nine. There are no words to describe how truly bizarre this move was by Weeks. In the next strange move by the referee Weeks, he jumped in between the two fighters and halted the contest, giving Rolly credit for a ninth round knockout. Rolly pushed the 40-year-old Venezuelan native Barroso to the canvas in round nine, and the referee, Tony Weeks blew the call, saying it was a knockdown. Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero (15-1, 13 KOs) was given an extremely disturbing ninth round knockout win over Ismael Barroso (24-4-2, 22 KOs) in a fight for the vacant WBA light welterweight title on Saturday night at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. ![]()
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