Rolando Romero has spoken out after a showdown with fellow world welterweight champion Devin Haney failed to come to fruition.
Romero is yet to make a return to action since he produced a career-best performance over countryman Ryan Garcia at Times Square in New York City back in May of last year.
The 30-year-old from Las Vegas dropped and dominated Garcia over 12-rounds to capture the WBA ‘regular’ world welterweight title, later being elevated to full world champion after former title holder Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis vacated the belt.
As he looks ahead to his anticipated ring return to be made official, Romero has revealed exactly why he does not expect to lock horns with reigning WBO champion Haney next, after negotiations between the two fighters fizzled out.
Speaking to Seconds Out in partnership with Campobet, Romero slammed Haney for not responding to an offer sent, as he claims the three-weight world champion is a ‘clown’ for avoiding a showdown with him.
“I don’t want anything to do with Devin Haney ever again. He wasted my time. He said we sent him a great, lucrative offer and all that stuff after calling me out and saying I’m ducking … I just didn’t want to deal with them originally because, like I said, they are clowns and I knew that they were gonna do this.
“I was like “Oh yeah, all right, I’m ducking Devin. I don’t care, right?” But the second I put the pressure, boom, who sent the contract? Who sent the deal? Who sent the offer? We were going to do it on Prime. Who sent everything? Me. You can play the big tough guy until you realise you ain’t the big tough guy no more, right? But Devin Haney knows he’s the most hyped-up boxer of this whole entire era.”
Haney last appeared back in November when he outclassed countryman Brian Norman Jr to capture the WBO welterweight title at the conclusion of their bout at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
