Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall Predictions: Polanco’s 147 assault presses on

Amateur standout Rohan Polanco heads into his 17th pro fight this Saturday, July 26. The Olympian takes on tough Texan Quinton Randall at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York. The bout is part of the undercard for Xander Zayas vs Jorge Garcia Perez airing live on ESPN+ in the United States. There is no UK broadcaster in place for the card at press time.

Here are my Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall predictions ahead of this scheduled 10-rounder.

Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall Odds

Polaco is 1/20 to prevail here while Randall is priced at 8/1 to spring a surprise. The draw can be backed at 16/1.

Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall Fight Preview

Polanco was an excellent amateur, with Pan-American Games silver and a berth at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to prove it. 16-0 with 10 knockouts is a fine start. But like fellow Top Rank stablemates Xander Zayas and Bruce Carrington who share this card, and who also excelled as amateurs, he has been moved gradually.

Randall is not a massive step up on the men Polanco has already beaten. In fact, he defeated a superior foe in his last outing. A year to the day before Polanco won every round against him in May, Fabian Maidana challenged Marios Barrios for the WBC interim welterweight title. The Argentine is experienced and a powerful puncher. But Polanco was able to outpoint him with ease.

Randall does not boast that same championship pedigree, though he has been in with someone who currently holds a world belt. Current WBO champion Brian Norman Jr. beat the 34-year-old Texan back in 2023. Randall is coming off two wins, including one against Janelson Figueroa, who has beaten world-ranked Nicklaus Flauz and fought decent names like Romain Villa, Delante Johnson as well as Norman.

Randall is a decent, hard-working pro. But Polanco’s perceived ceiling is much higher. The Dominican is world-ranked by the WBC and WBO. At 26, Polanco is entering his physical prime. The push towards world titles must begin now. Welterweight is a wide-open division, as evidenced by Barrios defending his title against 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao last weekend. The fact the champion drew with a fighter having his first pro bout in four years, and arguably deserved to lose, shows the opportunities ahead for Polanco.

Elsewhere, Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis is The Ring champion and was the consensus best at the weight, but he has vacated his IBF and WBA belts to move up to 154lbs. Lewis Crocker and Paddy Donovan will contest the IBF crown in September in Belfast while Rolly Romero goes from WBA ‘regular’ welterweight champion to the organisation’s sole belt-holder in the division.

Norman aside, every fighter has clear vulnerabilities. Go back a decade and half of the pound-for-pound list came from the welterweight division. Now, the grand old division does not boast one fighter among the sport’s 10 finest. Terence Crawford destroyed Errol Spence Jr. and then left, essentially robbing us of two top welters. Yordenis Ugas could not parlay beating Pacquiao back in 2021 into a meaningful campaign. Conor Benn is more interested in fighting middleweights. Ryan Garcia got done-in by ‘Rolly’ while his rival Devin Haney has never recovered from the beating ‘KingRy’ put on him in their No Contest (Garcia failed an anti-doping test in the aftermath).

Polanco needs to press the accelerator now, before someone else does. Jack Catterall, Alexis Rocha, Raul Curiel and Soulemayne Cissokho all feel capable of beating at least one reigning champion. 

It is a division struggling for box office glamour, with the Haney vs Garcia debacle managing to take out the most gifted welterweight and the most bankable one in one fell swoop. But it is wide-open. Polanco is as well-positioned as anyone to take advantage. 

Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall Full Card

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Bruce Carrington vs Mateus Heita

Yan Carlos Santana-Guerrero vs Aaron Alameda

Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall

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Steven Navarro vs Cristopher Rios

Emiliano Vargas vs Alexander Espinoza

Juanma Lopez De Jesus vs Jorge L. Gonzalez-Sanchez

Julius Ballo vs Brandan Ayala

Rohan Polanco vs Quinton Randall Prediction

Polanco should have an easy time in there. Randall is decent but he is below the level where the Dominican should be operating if he is everything we’ve been led to believe.

I like Polanco to stop Randall here. The Texan has never been knocked out, but he only has three knockouts of his own from 15 wins. What this suggests is that he lacks the power to dissuade Polanco’s assaults. If little of note is coming back his way, I can see the Olympian closing the show for his 11th career knockout in 17 fights. You can back Polanco to score the knockout at 13/8.

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