{"id":487127,"date":"2026-03-21T05:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T05:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:46:18","slug":"keyshawn-davis-delivers-surprising-devin-haney-vs-rolly-romero-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487127\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyshawn Davis delivers surprising Devin Haney vs Rolly Romero verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/devin-haney\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Haney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/rolando-romero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolando Romero<\/a> are expected to collide in a welterweight title unification this May, and potential 147lb rival <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/keyshawn-davis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keyshawn Davis<\/a> has offered his prediction for the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Haney dethroned Brian Norman Jr to become the WBO welterweight champion in November, whereas Romero won the vacant WBA Regular title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/44974939\/rolando-romero-disrupts-ryan-garcia-plans-massive-upset\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">with a win against Ryan Garcia last May<\/a>, before later being upgraded to full champion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Keyshawn Davis was stripped of his WBO lightweight crown when he missed weight ahead of a planned first defence versus Edwin De Los Santos. He moved up to super-lightweight as a result, knocking out Jamaine Ortiz back in January to rediscover some momentum.<\/p>\n<p>However, during his post-fight interview, Davis revealed plans to move up to welterweight and take on Haney, despite just one fight above the lightweight limit since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>It appears as though Haney has instead opted for this title unification opportunity against Romero, but \u2018The Businessman\u2019 is sure to pursue a clash with the victor, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/keyshawn-davis-moving-up-in-weight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claiming to have already agreed to a \u2018championship contest\u2019 in the welterweight division<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3je9d_D2EAw?si=EEcXlj7wqClGNutN\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FightHype<\/a>, Davis looked ahead to the bout, which he labelled as a \u201950\/50 fight\u2019 after sharing a phone call with Romero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaney-Romero? I got it 50\/50. Definitely a 50\/50 fight. I have been talking to Rolly on the phone, I know how serious he is. Everybody know Devin for his last fight. So, I got it being a 50\/50 fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haney-Romero is anticipated to take place on Saturday, May 30, at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, pending official announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Haney and Rolando Romero are expected to collide in a welterweight title unification this May, and potential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}