Show: Rolly’s Wildness could upset Ryan Garcia

Regis Prograis is not ruling out the possibility of former WBA light welterweight champion Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero beating Ryan Garcia in their fight in Times Square in New York next May.

Flashback of the sparring session

Former two-time 140-pound champion Prograis believes that with Rolly (16-2, 13 KOs) so wild with his punches and hard to time, he could catch Ryan (24-1, 20 KOs) with something Regis points to a sparring session between Garcia and Rolando from 2018 to support his argument for Rolly to win.

Sparring has nothing to do with an actual fight, especially since it happened seven years ago when Garcia was skinny and still a teenager. Rolly has looked like a below-average fighter throughout his career, and should probably have two additional losses on his resume from his fights against Ismael Barroso and Jackson Marinez, which would make his true record 14 -4.

“Rolly and Ryan, I saw the sparring footage. I don’t think it’s actually a predictable fight, because they’re both so wild and they can both punch,” Regis Prograis told MillCity Boxingdiscussing the May 2 fight between Ryan Garcia and Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero in New York’s Times Square.

“Ryan can hit big shots, and Rolly can hit big shots. I’d say Ryan, but I don’t know if you’ve seen coach. Rolly was beating the crap out of Ryan in the gym. Rolly is wild. and sometimes it’s hard to time and fight someone who is wild like that.

“So I’d go with Ryan, but I’m not counting Rolly out until he hits him with something. I favor Ryan because he’s got more experience in fights and things like that. I favor him because he’s a bigger star. He’s got that hook , but at the same time, Rolly is wild and could catch him with something. So I would just favor Ryan, but it’s going to be an interesting fight for sure,” Prograis said.

Regis gives Rolly Romero too much credit for a sparring session that took place seven years ago in 2018. Ryan was 19 at the time and Rolly was 22. Kingry is now 26, and much older than he was during that session of asparagus The way Rolly rushed Garcia during that sparring would knock him out today because he would be nailed by one of his left hooks.

Rolly would likely lose to Ryan’s previous opponents Oscar Duarte, Devin Haney and Javier Fortuna. Garcia would be better off fighting a rematch with Duarte instead of using the recently knocked out Romero as his opponent because there is no gain in fighting him now and never was. It is surprising that Turki Al-Sheikh did not veto this choice of opponent. If it had been me, I’d have said, “No, Rolly is not eligible to main event the Times Square card.” He is not even worthy of being on the leave card.

Haney Rematch inevitable

“Yeah, I do,” Prograis said when asked if he favors Garcia in a rematch with Devin Haney. “If Devin can beat Ryan, he can show his greatness. If you can beat someone who beat you like that (it’s special). When you take all the supplements he (Ryan) was taking, and we take that out (the rematch can be different ).

It’s a no-brainer that Garcia will beat Devin Haney in the rematch. For fans who cling to the belief that the only reason Ryan won was because he tested positive for Ostarine, they are kidding themselves. He won because he was the better fighter, and Haney can’t take a hard punch.

Devin’s constant grappling habitat that he has developed from his fight against Jorge Linares came back to bite him in the back in this fight, as it put him right in the firing line of short hooks from Ryan’s left. Haney should have seen it watching the tape. de Garcia in training camp, and made sure he didn’t try to hold on.

Unfortunately, Devin’s over possession has become too ingrained for me to stop using him. If you take that away from Haney, it would break him, leaving him as a fractured and vulnerable fighter, fodder for just about anyone from 135 to 147. His whole game is now based on jabbing and holding.

“We don’t know if it was true or not, but the crap still happened (Garcia tested positive for Ostarine),” Regis said. “We can say whatever was in his system, but that fight still happened. He still dropped him, hurt him and dropped him three times. If he (Haney) can come out of that and win, that would show really its greatness.

Regis in Haney v. Ramirez

“(Kingry knocking out Haney in the rematch) is possible, but we have to see what Devin is doing. We have to see what he does with (Jose) Ramirez first. In boxing, anything is possible,” Prograis said.

Regis is right about fans needing to see if Haney wins his fight against former WBA and WBO light welterweight champion Jose Ramirez (29-2, 18 KOs) on May 2 because it’s likely that he loses against him. Turki said nothing about Haney needing to win his fight against Ramirez to get the Kingry rematch in October. So it likely won’t matter if Haney is defeated by Ramirez. This is a throw away deck.