Prograis: Rolly’s wildness could bother Ryan García

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 to the combat session

Former two-time 140-pound champion Prograis feels that with Rolly (16-2, 13 KOs) being so wild with his punches and difficult 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 back up his argument for Rolly’s victory.

Sparring has nothing to do with a real fight, especially when it happened seven years ago when Garcia was very thin and still a teenager. Rolly has looked like a below-average fighter throughout his career, and should arguably 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 think it’s not really a predictable fight, because they’re both very wild and they can both land punches,” Regis Prograis told MillCity Boxingtalking about the May 2 fight between Ryan Garcia and Rolando ‘Rolly’ Romero in Times Square in New York.

“Ryan can hit big shots and Rolly can hit big shots. I would say Ryan, but I don’t know if you saw the sparring. Rolly was beating up Ryan in the gym. Rolly is wild. And sometimes it’s hard to time and fight someone who is that wild.

“So, I’d go with Ryan, but I’m not ruling out Rolly until I hit him with something. I prefer Ryan because he has more experience in big fights and things like that. I favor him because he is 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 will be an interesting fight for sure,” Prograis said.

Regis gave too much credit to Rolly Romero for a sparring session that occurred seven years ago in 2018. Ryan was 19 at the time and Rolly was 22. Kingry is now 26 years old and much older than he was during that sparring session. The way Rolly attacked Garcia during that sparring would leave him knocked 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 rather than using the recently knocked out Romero as his opponent because there is no benefit to fighting him now nor ever was there. It is surprising that Turki Al-Sheikh did not veto this choice of opponent. If it had been me, I would have said, ‘No, Rolly is not suitable for the main event of the Times Square card.’ It’s not even worthy of being on the billboard.

Haney’s revenge is inevitable

“Yes, 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 that he (Ryan) was taking and we eliminate them (the rematch may 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, you are kidding yourselves. He won because he was the better fighter and Haney can’t take a hard hit.

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

Unfortunately, Devin’s excessive drinking has become too ingrained for him to stop using. If you took that away from Haney, you would break him, leaving him a fractured and vulnerable fighter, fodder for almost anyone between 135 and 147. Now his entire game is based on striking and holding.

“We don’t know if it was true or not, but shit 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 it, hurt it, and dropped it three times. If he (Haney) can come out of that and win, that would really show his greatness.

Regis on Haney vs. Ramírez

“It’s possible (Kingry knocks out Haney in the rematch), but we have to see where Devin is at. First we must see what he does with (José) Ramírez. In boxing anything is possible,” said Prograis.

Regis is right about fans needing to see if Haney will win his fight against former WBA and WBO light welterweight champion José Ramírez (29-2, 18 KOs) on May 2 because he is likely to lose to he. Turki didn’t say anything about Haney needing to win his fight against Ramirez in order to get a rematch with Kingry in October. So it probably won’t matter if Haney is defeated by Ramirez. That’s a throwaway fight.