{"id":863596,"date":"2026-08-19T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863596\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:48:23","slug":"rolly-romero-wants-to-become-a-pastor-after-his-boxing-career-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/863596\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolly Romero Wants To Become A Pastor After His Boxing Career Is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan Hafey\/PBC<\/p>\n

Outside the boxing ring, Rolly Romero pursues an even greater passion.<\/p>\n

This weekend, Romero will face one of the toughest tests in the ring when he defends his 147-pound WBA championship against Teofimo Lopez on August 22nd on DAZN and Amazon Prime PPV.<\/p>\n

THE FIRST FACE-OFF \ud83d\ude24<\/p>\n

Rolly Romero and Teofimo Lopez face-off for the first time ahead of their WBA welterweight title fight on Aug 22nd \ud83d\udd25#RollyTeofimo<\/a> live on DAZN & DAZN on Prime \ud83d\udcfa pic.twitter.com\/AwcWdojVyr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ring Magazine (@ringmagazine) July 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Before becoming one of boxing\u2019s biggest names, Romero credits his faith with turning his life around when he found himself homeless for a brief period.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod spoke to me July 31st, 2017, the first time he saved me, and I was homeless. I was homeless for like a month and a half, but he spoke to me and I heard his true audible voice, and I\u2019m sitting there and I never been so mad in my life, and I start to cry. And I just heard, tell me what\u2019s wrong. I\u2019m like, who\u2019s there? He tells me again, tell me what\u2019s wrong. So I told him everything, and from one day to another, he fixed everything that happened in my life at that moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romero says he didn\u2019t start taking religion seriously until he found himself taking supplements that messed with his hormones and led to him having a severe bout of depression.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was something that we caught that I was taking and messed up my hormones. It started making sense now why everything was so off for two years. But because of that I was able to find my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who\u2014 his blood makes up for every bad I\u2019ve ever done in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe day I started following him seriously was December 27th of 2023. So what happened, that was the day I started taking poison, but another event had happened to me that day coincidentally, and, I told God I was going to start to follow him. So that very next week I started reading the Bible because I was completely in the wrong. And that\u2019s when I started reading the Bible, but my heart still wasn\u2019t with him. My heart wasn\u2019t with him completely until January 11th. Of 2025, so 747 days later.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up in a panic attack crying, and, I fell into sin, and I beg Jesus to help me. And I, I ended up on the ground in a fetal position crying for about twenty minutes. I go in the shower, I wipe my tears, and I\u2019m still crying. I\u2019m like, Jesus, you love me because I\u2019m broken. He says, my son, in my eyes you are perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it was in the\u2014 it was Even in my most shameful, humiliating moment, Jesus said in his eyes, I am perfect. And he became my true love. I didn\u2019t care about boxing. I didn\u2019t care about\u2014 I didn\u2019t care about women. I didn\u2019t care about my family. I didn\u2019t care about money. I didn\u2019t care about nothing. Jesus became my true love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cuban-American boxer says he now wants to become a pastor after his boxing career is over.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter boxing, I want to become a pastor. Just knowing that I could save a soul, that makes me happy. That gives me more dopamine now than anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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