Unbeaten lightweights begin promotion with fiery press conference

For weeks, months, unbeaten lightweight boxer Rolando Romero has belittled chap unbeaten lightweight Gervonta Davis connected Twitter, sending 1 insulting tweet aft different arsenic helium pursued a combat with the Mayweather Promotions superstar.

On Thursday afternoon, helium yet talked his trash successful person.

“I’m going to sound this dwarf the (expletive) out,” said Romero, who seldom spoke a condemnation that didn’t incorporate an expletive. “That’s however it is. Simple arsenic that.”

Davis and Romero began the promotion with a property league Thursday for their Dec. 5 bout astatine the Staples Center successful Los Angeles. Davis is among the biggest stars successful boxing, equipped with uncanny knockout powerfulness and a wide entreaty befit for a pay-per-view star.

Romero, a Las Vegas native, besides is simply a powerfulness puncher who for 3 years has fearlessly demanded a combat with the vaunted Davis.

Both fighters are promoted by the locally-based Mayweather Promotions, and the firm’s CEO, Leonard Ellerbe, guaranteed a knockout.

“Not often successful boxing bash you get 2 guys who marque a combat and they genuinely can’t basal each others guts,” Ellerbe told the Review-Journal past week. “These are 2 guys that really, truly despise each other.”

Davis (25-0, 24 knockouts) has cemented his presumption arsenic a pay-per-view gully with resounding victories implicit erstwhile four-division satellite champion Leo Santa Cruz and 140-pound contender Mario Barrios.

Romero (14-0, 12 KOs) is making his debut connected the platform.

The brash, Southwest Career Technical Academy alum has repeatedly taunted and demeaned Davis and continued Thursday during his archetypal nationalist enactment with his chap stablest. Romero said that helium was expected to spar with Davis respective years ago, but Davis didn’t amusement up — igniting his disdain for the stable’s apical star.

Davis, usually calm and reserved, didn’t hesitate to prosecute successful the banter.

“This (expletive) is simply a clown. He ain’t thing similar me,” said Davis, who holds a secondary WBA lightweight title. “That’s each helium bash is talk. That’s what he’s winning at, talking.”

Davis is among the astir vicious pound-for-pound punchers successful boxing, though Romero, too, pairs plentifulness of popular with an awkward benignant that could marque for a compelling matchup.

“They’re not moving connected nary skills oregon nothing,” Davis said. “Pack the full radical up. Pack them up. Pack them up and get them the (blank) retired of boxing. … He ain’t warring cipher similar me.”

Not until Dec. 5.

Contact newsman Sam Gordon astatine sgordon@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BySamGordon connected Twitter.