![]() ![]() “Absolutely, hands down,” said Wade when asked if he believes Rolly is the strongest fighter in the division. ![]() Focusing on somebody else makes you look forward to what they’re going to do, and it makes you get caught up. I’m focusing on my boxer and my boxer should be focusing on himself as well. “I’m not taking anything away from his abilities. “He does a lot of good things or he wouldn’t be a two-division or three-division world champion. Read: Happy Birthday Gerry Cooney – The Heavyweight Power-Puncher Turns 67 I think the biggest mistake is putting so much emphasis on what another person does as opposed to what they do. “I think the problems are going to be a lot more than whether he can go backward or not. “When you’re the aggressor a lot of times you don’t get to see him moving off the back foot, but I’m definitely not going to hang my hat on that because that could be the reason or the cause of why he’s going to have problems that night. I think a guy like Tank can adjust and do a lot of different things. “They’re not in the structured way that people want to see them in, but it’s going to be really difficult to defend against that. ![]() It’s just that they’re from a different angle. It’s always organic, it’s always news He does give off the structured movements of the jab, and hook. “When you watch a fighter that has certain tendencies and you can watch for those tendencies, but for Rolly, there isn’t any. How can you prepare for someone that doesn’t even know what they’re going to do?” said Wade in touching on the unorthodox style that Rolly uses. ![]() “You see it in his performance right now as well. For me to see him growing, showing a high degree of professionalism, which is really important to be successful in this game, it’s been amazing,” Wade continued. “He catapulted himself into the division like he’s done with everything else. “I’ve had the opportunity to watch Rolly grow up to see him go from six rounds to twelve rounds, so he didn’t have the opportunity to gradually evolve into it,” said Rolly’s strength& conditioning coach Larry Wade to Fighthype. Preview Rolly’s unpredictability will be a problem Read: Tim Bradley: "Terence Crawford would beat Floyd Mayweather" In a tougher than expected bout, #4 WBC super featherweight contender Eduardo Ramirez (27-2-3, 12 KOs) beat Luis Melendez (17-2, 13 KOs) by a 10 round majority decision. Unbeaten junior middleweight Jesus Ramos (19-0, 15 KOs) had too much talent for Luke Santamaria (13-3-1, 7 KOs), outworking him by a wide 10-round unanimous decision. It’s unknown why the organizers of this card didn’t put Lara in with a better opponent than #10 WBA O’Sullivan because this was the chief support bout on a card that is selling for $74.95 on PPV. The referee finally decided he’d seen enough and halted the fight in the eighth round after the 39-year-old Lara stunned O’Sullivan with a jarring left to the head. From that point on, Lara had O’Sullivan hurt in rounds five, six, seven, and eight. O’Sullivan was dropped like a bad habit in the fourth by the Cuban Lara. In the chief support bout on the card, WBA secondary middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (29-3-3, 17 KOs) defeated terribly overmatched fringe contender Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan (31-5, 21 KOs), stopping the aging 37-year-old Ireland native in the eighth round in a woefully one-sided contest. ![]()
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