Davis vs Romero: Judges and referees for all four PPV fights
David Fields has pulled the assignment to referee Gervonta Davis vs Rolando Romero on Saturday.
Gervonta Davis and Rolando Romero are set for Saturday, having made weight this afternoon in Brooklyn, and now the officials are also official for Saturday’s pay-per-view fights, including their main event.
Who are the officials for Davis vs Romero?
David Fields will be the referee, a 22-year veteran who has never done a Davis or Romero fight in the past. Fields has been featured as the third man in the ring for several notable fights in the last five years alone, including Joshua-Klitschko, Wilder-Ortiz 2, Kovalev-Alvarez, Bivol-Pascal, Charlo-Korobov, Crawford-Khan, Commey-Lopez, Kownacki-Helenius, Lipinets-Clayton, and Zepeda-Vargas.
The judges will be Ron McNair, Kevin Morgan, and Robin Taylor, all from New York. Going over their entire histories would be ridiculously time-consuming and kind of pointless since no judge is ever consistently Great! or consistently Horrible!, really, but a few notable fights of recent vintage:
- McNair scored the January fight between Tugstsogt Nyambayar and Sakaria Lukas 96-94 for Nyambayar. The other judges had it 95-95 (that was Robin Taylor) and 96-94 Lukas. All scores were fair enough.
- Morgan was one of three judges who gave Vladimir Nikitin basically no credit in his 2019 loss to Michael Conlan, a fight some felt was closer than any of the judges scored it. He had it the closest, at 98-92 for Conlan. I had it 96-94 Conlan, but Wil Esco had it 98-92 for Conlan, too. It wasn’t the biggest controversy or anything.
- Taylor was one of the judges for Liam Smith’s 10th round stoppage win over Jessie Vargas on the Taylor-Serrano card in April. She had Smith up 86-85 at the time of the stoppage.
Undercard officials
Erislandy Lara vs Gary “Spike” O’Sullivan
- Referee: Benjy Esteves
- Judges: Allen Nace (NY), Tony Paolillo (NY), Waleska Roldan (NY)
Jesus Ramos vs Luke Santamaria
- Referee: Arthur Mercante Jr
- Judges: Mark Consentino (NJ), Ken Ezzo (CT), Steve Weisfeld (NJ)
Eduardo Ramirez vs Luis Melendez
- Referee: Johnny Callas
- Judges: Bernard Bruni (PA), John McKaie (NY), John Poturaj (NJ)
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