Fulton vs Roman FULL FIGHT: June 4, 2022 | PBC on Showtime

Fulton, the undefeated WBC/WBO Unified World Super Bantamweight Champion, was facing former unified super bantamweight titlist Daniel Roman in front of a capacity crowd at The Armory, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a Premier Boxing Champions event on SHOWTIME Championship Boxing.

Many expected Roman to be the most difficult opponent of Fulton’s career. This was the perfect opportunity for Fulton to show that he was not only the best 122-pounder in the world, but among the very best, pound for pound today—and he did with a splendid, virtuoso performance by besting Roman in a dominant unanimous decision victory.

Straight rights, power jabs, combinations, left hooks, working angles and distance, fighting southpaw and orthodox, Fulton (21-0, 8 KOs) did it all, translating into shutout scores of 120-108 from judges Mike Fitzgerald and Patrick Morley and 119-109 from judge Nathan Palmer.

“I made a hell of a statement tonight,” said Fulton. “I prepared for this and I told y’all I was going to make it easy and fight depending on how I wake up, and I woke up feeling good.

“It was very important to control the distance tonight. Like I said before in the last outing with Brandon Figueroa, I didn’t have the energy because I didn’t make the weight the right way. So, shout out to my dietician.”

Fulton dominated Roman like no one previously had.

“I’ve been in the top-10 pound-for-pound,” Fulton said. “I don’t care what their list says. I’ve been top 10. I’m the only fighter that became world champion in 2021 and then unified at the end of the year. I fought four undefeated fighters back-to-back-to-back. Two of them were world champions. Nobody did that. Nobody. And I was in the fighter of the year contest along with Canelo (Alvarez), and I’m at the smaller weight class.”

Fulton even received a resounding endorsement afterward from Roman (29-4-1, 10 KOs).

“There’s no excuse. I think this fight proves who the best 122-pound fighter in the division is,” Roman said in a classy statement. “Fulton did that tonight. He proved it. I wish him the best and I hope he goes and achieves what I couldn’t achieve. Go become undisputed. Like I said, this fight proved who is the best in the division. Fulton was the better man tonight.

“Fulton knew how to use his distance. It was hard for me to adjust to his distance because he was boxing. He came in and came out. He changed his style so it was hard for me to adjust.”

In the first, Fulton used an effective jab, while Roman tried to cut off the ring and fire body shots to slow down the faster Fulton. Roman enjoyed a better second although Fulton’s footwork allowed him to avoid most of the attacks.

Roman usually throws an average of 70 punches a round. He was down to 45 punches over the first two, because he could not catch Fulton.

Fulton used good distance, boxing mainly in the center of the ring in the third and fourth rounds behind a versatile jab.

Fulton came out more aggressive in the fifth. He mixed his steady jab with a left hook. The rare times they fought in the pocket, it was Fulton’s speed that got him the better of the exchanges.

Through five, Fulton’s superior boxing skills seemed in command. Roman, possibly sensing he was behind, pressed Fulton more in the sixth. Even then, he enjoyed little success. With 1:13 left in the sixth, his left uppercut and right hand swatted nothing but air. A Fulton counter right completely turned Roman around.

Prior to the start of the eighth rounds, Roman’s trainer, Eddie Gonzalez, told him was down on the cards. Roman responded with one of his better rounds, going to the body in an attempt to slow Fulton down.

In the ninth, Fulton returned to dominating pounding lead rights flush off Roman’s face and catching him coming forward with jabs. “Cool Boy Steph” began sitting on his punches in the tenth, backing Roman up with hard shots to the head and body.

The eleventh featured more of the same as he stood his ground. Fulton plowed Roman with left hooks, left uppercuts to the body and straight rights in the pocket.

“Any moment he had, I took it right away from him,” Fulton said. “I neutralized the threat. I started walking him down because I saw that he had been slowing down. I feel like the more I kept boxing, the more I just got a little tired of boxing. Me trying to walk forward to him wasn’t going to happen all the time, but I definitely saw him slowing down. I wanted to stop him but I didn’t get that.”

Afterward, Fulton called for an undisputed match next.

“You already know what’s next,” Fulton exclaimed. “I want [WBA/IBF titlist Murodjon Akhmadaliev]. I got to finish this up. But much respect for Danny Roman. Much respect.”

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