VSiN PrimeTime | August 7, 2026 | Hour 3

**SPEAKER_1** (0:04)
Live from the Circus Sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Matt Youmans** (0:13)
All right, welcome back, VSiN PrimeTime on a Friday night. Will Hill, Matt Youmans, and how about professional boxer Rolando Raleigh Romero from Las Vegas in studio with us tonight? Got a big fight coming up. We're going to talk about that in a minute. Will Hill, let's get a quick baseball update on what's happening around the world of MLB and the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs are rolling again.

**Will Hill** (0:35)
Cubs are piling it on. The Red Sox are piling it on. They lead 10 to 1 I think they scored five runs in the second after a scoreless first, but that is 10 to 1 and they are running away with that game. Then the Cubs, after falling behind 1-0, are up 4 to 1 I keep mentioning this. You can get this at Caesars shop around. Cubs over the Red Sox, 100 to 1 in the World Series in XACTA. The other way around, 150 to 1, Red Sox over the Cubs. Not bad bets to make. Both teams winning again tonight.

**Matt Youmans** (1:00)
Red Sox and Cubs, very strong favorites on the card. Some people thought that about Ryan Garcia when he fought this guy in May of 2025 And Rolando, Raleigh Romero, you up pulled the upset that night. Was that the last time you fought?

**Rolando Romero** (1:15)
It was actually the last time I fought. I've been out of the ring for what, 15 months now?

**Matt Youmans** (1:19)
Yeah, over a year.

**Rolando Romero** (1:20)
Going on 16 months. Did you have? Yeah, I've been going on 16 months.

**Matt Youmans** (1:24)
Did you have an injury? Why the long way off between fights?

**Rolando Romero** (1:27)
Everyone ducked me.

**Matt Youmans** (1:29)
Is that right?

**Rolando Romero** (1:29)
You know, it's kind of hard. You know, imagine I'm the most avoided fighter in boxing. I can sell a fight, I can trash talk, and I have a world title. And now nobody wants to fight me out of nowhere because they realized I punch a little bit harder than before now at the weight class, you know. I grew into my weight class. I feel a lot stronger at welterweight, and I need this here to actually grow more into my body, too.

**Matt Youmans** (1:52)
Welterweight champ at 147, three division champion, right?

**Rolando Romero** (1:56)
Three division, 135, 141, 147

**Matt Youmans** (1:59)
All right, so you're going to fight?

**Rolando Romero** (1:59)
I only got 19 fights, too.

**Matt Youmans** (2:01)
19 fights. This will be fight number 20 against Teofimo Lopez on August 22nd at T-Mobile Arena, correct?

**Rolando Romero** (2:10)
Correct, correct.

**Matt Youmans** (2:11)
Do you believe you should be the favorite in this fight?

**Rolando Romero** (2:15)
I don't really care.

**Matt Youmans** (2:17)
You don't care?

**Rolando Romero** (2:17)
Yeah, I wasn't the favorite when I fought Ryan and we saw how that went.
You ever just, you know, every single time, somebody's the favorite, somehow they lose, and then somehow the underdog wins, you know? You never know. You can never predict box. You can never predict the future.

**Matt Youmans** (2:31)
You are the underdog in this fight at plus 200 I figure you probably were okay with that.

**Rolando Romero** (2:37)
You want to make some money?

**Matt Youmans** (2:38)
Yeah, we're going to bet you.

**Rolando Romero** (2:39)
Of course. All right.

**Will Hill** (2:42)
Matt and I are two guys that like to eat. Let me hear about a pre-fight routine, the regimen, the diet. Is it something that's strict for you?
What are you going through here as you get ready for this fight?

**Rolando Romero** (2:53)
Oh, man, there's some days when it's like, I'm in complete calorie deficit, where I have to starve myself.
Especially when I was at 35 and 40, man, dude, imagine eating no carbs, no nothing, being in complete calorie deficit. It's insane how much weight I had to lose. You know, like I had to lose 40 pounds when I'd fight at 35 in two months. That's a lot of weight.

**Will Hill** (3:17)
You have a cheat meal, anything you crave when you can't have it more than anything else?

**Rolando Romero** (3:21)
Dude, I eat everything. That's the thing, bro, I'm always hungry. I eat a lot. Like when I mean I eat a lot, everyone will tell you I eat a lot.
So it's crazy because like you see me when I get big, I have like literally the same body, but it just gets bigger, not fatter. I don't get fat. I still have abs. I still everything. I just get big, you know, and like right now I'm like, I'm skinny right now, obviously, because I, you know, I'm 10 pounds over fight weight, but I just get massive. Like it's weird how my body works.