live from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, atop a Premier Boxing Champions event, five-time world champ Gervonta “Tank” Davis (26-0, 24 KOs) takes on hard-throwing, number-one contender Rolando “Rolly” Romero (14-0, 12 KOs) in a lightweight world title clash.
The SHOWTIME pay-per-view telecast (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) also features two-division world champion Erislandy Lara defending his WBA Middleweight Title against Irish battler Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan in the co-main event.
Also on the card, undefeated rising star Jesús “Mono” Ramos takes on the always-tough Luke Santamaría in a 10-round super welterweight showdown. In the pay-per-view opener, hard-hitting contender Eduardo Ramírez faces Puerto Rico’s Luis Meléndez in a 10-round super featherweight war.
Davis is returning to Barclays Center, where he won his first world title in 2017 on the James DeGale-Badou Jack undercard. Now firmly established as a headliner and one of the biggest attractions in the sport, he’s coming back to Brooklyn in a true bad-blood grudge match.
The 27-year-old Davis has spent the last several years building his star and fortifying his resume. Now a five-time, three-division world champ headlining his fourth straight pay-per-view, the Baltimore native has made his mark as not only a pound-for-pound talent, but also one of boxing’s top draws.
In 2021, he scored a unanimous decision victory over hard-charging Mexican warrior Isaac Cruz in a December defense of his lightweight title and, before that, stopped junior welterweight titlist Mario Barrios in the eleventh round.
Now set to fight the WBA’s no. 1 contender and mandatory challenger, he looks to dominate and move on to even bigger things.
“Rolly” Romero was supposed to have the Isaac Cruz slot in December. Sexual assault allegations, however, saw that opportunity of a lifetime pulled from his grasp when he was removed from that pay-per-view main event.
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Five months later, with no charges filed, the 26-year-old Las Vegas native is back and confident in his ability to take full advantage of this high-profile shot.
Romero started boxing at 16 and, despite the late start in the sport, was discovered and eventually signed by Floyd Mayweather after some brutally dominant sparring performances at the Mayweather Boxing Club.
The hard-swinging lightweight captured the interim WBA lightweight title via close unanimous decision over Jackson Marinez in 2020 and is 2-0 with two knockouts since then.
