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Regis Prograis isn’t ruling out a chance for former WBA light welterweight champion Rolando Roley Romero to beat Ryan Garcia in their fight in New York’s Times Square next May.
Sparring session flash
The former two-time 140-lb champion feels that Ryan (24-1, 20 KOs) can handle anything as Roley (16-2, 13 KOs) is wild with his punches and has a tough time. Regis points to the breather session between Garcia and Rolando from 2018 to support his Rollie win.
Sparring has nothing to do with real fighting, especially when it happened seven years ago when Garcia was rail thin and still a teenager. Rollie has looked like a below-average fighter in his career, and should have two more losses against Ismael Barroso and Jackson Marinez, which would make his true record 14-4.
“Rolly and Ryan, I saw the motion pictures. “I think that’s not really a predictable fight, because they’re both very wild, and they can both land punches,” Regis told Progress. Milk City Boxdiscussing the May 2 fight between Ron Garcia and Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero in New York’s Times Square.
“Ryan can land big punches, Roli can land big punches. I would say Ryan, but I don’t know if you’ve seen sparring. Roli was beating the s*** out of Ryan in the gym. Rolly is wild. And sometimes it’s hard to time and fight someone who is so wild.
“So, I’d go with Ryan, but I wouldn’t count Rolly Out until I hit him with something. I like Ryan because he has more wrestling experience and stuff like that. I support him because he is a big star. He has a hook, but at the same time Rollie is wild and can catch him with something. So, I just pick Ryan, but it will definitely be an interesting fight,” said Prograce.
Regis gives a lot of credit to Rollie Romero for the spring session that happened seven years ago in 2018. At that time, Ryan was 19 and Roli was 22. Kingery is now 26 years old, and much older than he was during that sparring session. The way Rollie rushed Garcia during that sparring, he knocked him out today because he nailed him with one of his left hooks.
Rollie could lose to Ryan’s previous opponents Oscar Duarte, Devin Haney and Javier Fortuna. Garcia would be better off getting a rematch with Duarte than using the recently defeated Romero as his opponent because there is no point in fighting him now and there never was. It is surprising that Turki al-Sheikh did not oppose this choice of opposition. If it was me, I’d say, ‘No, Rollie’s not fit for the main event on the Times Square card. He doesn’t even deserve to be on the undercard.’
Honey, rematch is inevitable.
“Yes, I will,” Progreis said when asked if he would back Garcia in a rematch with Devin Haney. “If he can beat Devin Ryan, he can show his greatness. If you can beat someone who beat you like that (it’s special). You take that extra feed that he (Ryan) was taking and we’ll take him out (the rematch could be different).
Garcia beating Devin Haney in the rematch is a no-brainer. Fans who cling to the belief that the only reason Ryan won was because he tested positive for Ostrin are kidding themselves. He won because he was the better fighter, and Honey couldn’t take a hard punch.
Devin’s constant grappling habit that he developed in his fight with Jorge Linares came back to bite him in the back in this fight, as that put him in the firing line for Ryan’s short left hooks. Honey should have seen the tape instead of watching it. Garcia in the training camp, and confirmed that he did not try to catch.
Unfortunately, what Devin does is too entrenched to stop using excessive grip. If you take that away from Hani, he’s a broken, broken, vulnerable fighter, food for almost anyone from 135 to 147. His whole game is built on jabbing and now catching.
“We don’t know if it’s true or not, but s*** still happened (Garcia testing positive for Ostarin),” Regis said. “We can talk about anything that’s in his system, but that fight still happened. He still dropped him and dropped him three times. If he (Haney) can come out of that and win, that really shows his greatness.”
Sign up for Haney vs. Ramirez
“It’s possible (Kingry knocking out Haney in the rematch), but we can see what Devin is up to. First, we have to see what (Jose) Ramirez does. Everything is possible in boxing,” said Progress.
Regis Honey is right about fans needing to see if he can win his fight against former WBA and WBO light welterweight champion Jose Ramirez (29-2, 18 KOs) on May 2, because he could. Turki said nothing about Hani needing to win his fight against Ramirez in order to get Kingery a rematch in October. So it might not matter if Haney gets hit by Ramirez. That’s a throwaway fight.
