Times Square was the setting for Garcia’s first fight since he was suspended for a year after testing positive for PEDs vs. Devin Haney.

On a night that saw ring girls replaced by impersonators of celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Hulk Hogan and Michael Jackson, a couple people wearing Elmo costumes and a drummer playing — standard sights and sounds in Times Square on a Friday night — Romero (17-2) ended up as the star of the show.

The B/R combat team was in place to take in all the action, featuring the first live blow-by-blow call from Jim Lampley in more than six years—and compiled a definitive, real-time list of the show's winners and losers. A funny thing happened on the way to Ryan Garcia’s Friday night star turn.