Danny Jacobs says he wants to see Rolando Romero face Gervonta Davis next

After watching Rolando “Rolly” Romero easily outpoint Manuel Jaimes in a junior welterweight bout Saturday on the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga undercard at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Danny Jacobs said he wants to see Romero take on lightweight titleholder Gervonta “Tank” Davis.

Jacobs, a recently retired former middleweight titlist, provided ringside guest commentary on Amazon’s Prime Video streaming broadcast.

“I think it's a very interesting fight,” Jacobs said of a potential Davis-Romero clash, which would mark a rematch of their May 2022 fight. In that meeting, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, Davis dropped Romero and went on to a sixth-round stoppage.

On Saturday, Romero (16-2, 13 KOs) beat Jaimes (16-2-1, 11 KOs) in dominant fashion, winning almost every round (99-91 on all three judges’ scorecards) in a performance that Jacobs believes merits his earning another shot at facing Davis.

“I like his style,” Jacobs said of Romero. “I like how explosive he was, and he was smooth like water – like Bruce Lee is – tonight. Right here, what I think Rolly did is, he dominated with the body shots right there – big left hook. In the first half of the fight, he was loading up.”

Romero, 28, lost his 140-pound title in March to hard-hitting Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz via an explosive eighth-round stoppage. The Las Vegas native needed a win over Jaimes to retain his status as a contender in the division.

When asked about Romero’s good moments in the fight, Jacobs said, “In the second half, I felt like he kinda settled in and started doing body blows. Good body shot right there with that left hook to deliver.”

Meanwhile, Jaimes, a 24-year-old native of San Jose, California, saw his four-fight winning streak come to an end.

Bernard Neequaye is a sports journalist with a specialty in boxing coverage. He wrote a boxing column titled “From The Ringside” in his native Ghana for years. He can be reached on X (formerly Twitter) at @BernardNeequaye, LinkedIn at Bernard Neequaye and through email at bernardneequaye@gmail.com.