Danny Romero - "Kid Dynamite"

Any thoughts on Danny Romero? How good of a fighter was he in your view ? He was IBF champ in Flyweight and Super Flyweight. Was a two fisted boxer-puncher with dynamite in both hands although he did have his limitations. Might have a case as being one of the hardest puncher of the lower weight class.

Surprisingly I don't see much threads on him, he doesn't get talked about much and is mostly known as the guy that lost to Johnny Tapia in a great fight. He was definitely a fun fighter to watch and deserves more attention despite his shortcomings.

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Romero was a huge puncher but for me he mentally broken after loss against Tapia.

 

Best win Romero IMO

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He had a great sense of balance and punching form.

 

I don't think Romero was ever going to live up to 100% of his potential after he injured his eye socket vs. Salazar. (IIRC, he fought the remainder of his career w/ a plate under his cheekbone.) After that injury, it seemed to me that he modified his style from a Tyson-esque swarmer to a more patient & methodical stalker in order to protect his eye socket from further injury. IMO, the Tapia fight was competitive enough that if Romero had been more willing to let his hands go & take chances, he could've pulled it out.

After the Tapia loss, he seemed to lose discipline & he ballooned from jr.BW all the way up to jr.FW. In his title challenge vs. Bungu, he appeared to be ahead early, but faded down the stretch & lost a debatable dec. The next time I saw him fight was on the Hopkins-Tito undercard, & I was shocked to see him looking like a pudgy shell of himself. The next time I heard of him after that was when he was pulled over for drunk driving & caused a public stir by bragging to the police that he would escape consequences b/c he was supposedly friends w/ a local politician.

 

100%. He was also a pretty disciplined boxer. But Tapia stole his soul.

 

I remember one of his early pre-Tapia fights where Glenn McCrory compared him to a young Roberto Duran and I remember thinking ‘that’s setting him up for a fall!’
So I get the sense that he was a little bit overhyped early on and then hype met reality when he met Johnny Tapia. Remarkable that jnr bantamweight had two world class fighters from Alberquerque at the same time and that they actually met in the ring. I thought it was a good fight but Tapia was in control.