Rolly pulled off the biggest win of his career against Garcia in May 2025, dropping him in the second round and taking a 12-round decision to capture the WBA welterweight title. It was an excellent performance and gave Rolly the signature win he’d been missing.
Beating the attraction doesn’t automatically make you the attraction.
Rolly hasn’t fought since. More than fifteen months will have passed when he finally returns against Teofimo, and Jack Catterall never received the mandatory title fight the WBA ordered. Somehow, Rolly still owns the belt and is coming back as the centerpiece of an $80 PPV rather than having to resolve his mandatory situation first.
Outside of Garcia, there isn’t much in Rolly’s career that demands premium pricing. His 2020 decision over Jackson Marinez was controversial. His 2023 stoppage of Ismael Barroso was worse. Rolly was behind on all three scorecards when referee Tony Weeks stopped Barroso in the ninth round, producing one of the more criticized stoppages in recent years. Isaac Cruz then stopped Rolly in eight rounds in 2024.
Teofimo brings the stronger body of work, but his placement here creates another question. He lost decisively to Shakur Stevenson at 140 and is moving directly into a WBA welterweight title fight without first beating anyone at 147.
One fighter hasn’t defended his title in fifteen months. The other hasn’t won a fight at welterweight because he’s never had one. TGB wants $79.99 for the package.
The undercard doesn’t improve the deal.
Yoenli Hernandez may be the best fighter on the entire card, yet even his matchup has mismatch written all over it. Francisco Veron (17-1-1, 10 KOs) is a thin, finesse-oriented junior middleweight who relies on movement and boxing ability rather than power. He hasn’t looked particularly impressive at 154, and now he’s moving to 160 to face a powerful two-time amateur world champion.
Veron represented Argentina at the Tokyo Olympics, but that credential doesn’t change the physical or stylistic reality of this fight. Hernandez is the natural middleweight, the heavier puncher and the fighter being positioned for a world title opportunity. Veron will need to keep him at distance without possessing the kind of power likely to discourage Hernandez from coming after him.
It looks like another Hernandez showcase, only this time customers are being asked to pay $79.99 to watch it.
After Yoenli, there is literally nothing on the PPV portion that qualifies as must-see. Victor Santillan against Antonio Russell may be competitive, but a competitive fight between fighters with limited commercial recognition isn’t enough to strengthen an $80 PPV. Carlos Utria against Israel Mercado brings even less to the purchase.
This entire card looks more appropriate for regular DAZN programming. That wouldn’t make it free. Subscribers already pay a substantial price for the service. Asking them for another $79.99 should require something considerably better than a normal DAZN card moved behind a second paywall.
Ryan Garcia isn’t here this time to supply the enormous audience that surrounded Rolly’s career-defining win in Times Square. Rolly beat the star, but we’ll find out August 22 how many of the star’s fans actually followed him.
TGB hasn’t supplied much insurance if they didn’t.
If Rolly and Teofimo can’t sell this event themselves, nothing underneath them is likely to save it. Even the card’s arguably best fighter is being matched against a smaller man moving up from junior middleweight.
At $79.99, boxing fans should be getting considerably more than this.
