Gervonta Davis won't be muting the criticism concerning the quality of his recent competition against Rolando Romero but he should return to the sports world's highlight reel with what seems to be fated to be a spectacular knockout.
Davis did have his struggles in winning a close decision over Isaac Cruz in his last fight but Romero's competition makes the Davis foes look like Murderer's Row and Romero is very crude and wild with his offense resembling the wild swipes of Ricardo Mayorga which should leave him wide open for the big power bombs from Davis.
Davis's contract with Floyd Mayweather's promotional company expires after this fight and the boxing world is somewhat abuzz with where Davis could be headed.
Davis seems to be most likely headed away from Mayweather but headed to affiliated Al Haymon and the PBC.
The problem with that would be that PBC isn't strong at lightweight or junior welterweight and could place Davis in the same spot that he resides with Mayweather- a lack of elite opponents.
Top Rank holds a lock at 135 and 140 pounds as they either promote or co-promote almost all of the best at those fights (Devin Haney, Vasyl Lomachenko, Josh Taylor, Teofimo Lopez, etc) with working agreements with George Kambosos and only Ryan Garcia with Golden Boy (who has an even worse relationship with Al Haymon than Top Rank) isn't promoted by Bob Arum's bunch.
Davis's decision could come down to this- Is he interested in facing the best and creating a legacy or is he more concerned with making the maximum amount of money?
Romero has predicted a first-round knockout and Davis doesn't have a history of being an extremely quick starter, so it will be interesting to see how Davis adjusts if Romero blasts out of the corner as he is promising.
Romero has basically done two things to earn this fight against Davis- fight for Mayweather Promotions for an easy in-house fight and talk a huge game.
Romero's best wins are over journeymen Anthony Yigit and Avery Sparrow and two fights ago, almost everyone thought he received a gift decision over Jackson Marinez, who isn't a top ten lightweight.
The fight should be fun while it lasts and if Romero can fight even close to the level of his smack talk, then we could see an even better battle.
The co-feature looks like another squash match as Erislandy Lara defends his minor middleweight trinket against Gary "Spike" O'Sullivan.
Lara can punch, should he choose to engage like he did in his last fight against dreadfully outgained Thomas "Cornflake" Lamanna.
Cornflake was crunched in only one round but Lara's previous fight saw him content to dance in a twelve-round win over another opponent not of his caliber in Greg Vendetti as it appears to be decided by Lara's mood on the day of the fight.
Spike O'Sullivan is a solid European level boxer but in each of his three attempts against world-class fighters, O'Sullivan has beaten defeated soundly by David Lemieux in one, Jaime Munguia in eleven, and Chris Eubank Jr in seven, so this one seems to be up to the enigmatic Lara in how this fight ends.
Boxing Challenge
V.S; Davis KO 3
TRS: Lara KO 8
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