Showtime Punches Up December Gervonta Davis-Rolando Romero PPV Boxing Event

By R. Thomas Umstead
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Title bout marks third scheduled fight card for Showtime in four months

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Gervonta Davis will defend his title in a Dec. 5 Showtime pay-per-view match. (Image credit: Showtime)

Showtime will extend a busy 2021 pay-per-view boxing calendar with a Dec. 5 fight between five-time world champion Gervonta Davis and undefeated lightweight contender Rolando Romero.

The fight will be lightweight champion Davis’s third straight PPV appearance and second this year after beating Mario Barrios in a June 26 event. “Tank Davis is at the top of the boxing mountain and selling out arenas coast-to-coast for a reason,” Showtime Sports president Stephen Espinoza said in a statement. “His explosive power, style, and take-no-prisoners attitude make him a captivating, must-see attraction.”

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The Davis-Romero PPV fight marks Showtime’s fifth PPV boxing match this year, which includes the scheduled Nov. 6 Canelo Alvarez-Caleb Plant super middleweight unification bout. Other Showtime 2021 bouts include June’s Davis-Barrios bout, the June 6 Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul bout, and the Aug. 29 Jake Paul-Tyron Woodley fight. 

Those three fights combined have generated approximately 1.7 million PPV buys, according to industry sources. 

R. Thomas Umstead
R. Thomas Umstead

R. Thomas Umstead serves as senior content producer, programming for Multichannel News, Broadcasting + Cable and Next TV. During his more than 30-year career as a print and online journalist, Umstead has written articles on a variety of subjects ranging from TV technology, marketing and sports production to content distribution and development. He has provided expert commentary on television issues and trends for such TV, print, radio and streaming outlets as Fox News, CNBC, the Today show, USA Today, The New York Times and National Public Radio. Umstead has also filmed, produced and edited more than 100 original video interviews, profiles and news reports featuring key cable television executives as well as entertainers and celebrity personalities.