As he surveyed the list of champions One thing is special for Mauricio Sulaiman, president of the World Boxing Council.
Unbeaten super flyweight champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez “has been phenomenal, beyond expectations,” Sulaiman told BoxingScene hours after the reveal at the weekly WBC press conference. that Rodriguez will defend his belt on November 9 in Philadelphia. with WBC interim champion Pedro Guevara from Mexico
Guevara (42-4-1, 22 KO) announced he will face 24-year-old Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KO) at the WBC event, with Ring Magazine first reporting the news on Tuesday.
Rodriguez’s trainer, Robert Garcia, confirmed that his fighter is already in his Riverside, California, gym for the bout.
After debuting at light flyweight and fighting at under 110 pounds in late 2021, Rodriguez jumped at the opportunity to fight for the WBC super flyweight world title during He started 2022 by knocking out former world heavyweight champion Carlos Cuadras by decision, then went on to score a 6th round TKO four months later against the best fighter of all time. Another division, Sisaket S. Rungvisai
“If you look back at the last decade of the super flyweight division, It’s like they have their own version of the ‘Four Kings’ with Cuadras, Sor Rungvisai, (Juan Francisco) Estrada and (Roman ‘Chocolatito’) Gonzalez… ‘Bam’ has already tackled three of them and now he Chasing another strong veteran in Guevara,” Sulaiman said, “it is an incredible step.”
Rodriguez returned to the flyweight division to win and join forces with Christian Gonzalez Hernandez and Sonny Edwards, then on June 29, he knocked Ace out. Trada with a full punch in the 7th round.
Rodriguez prepares for Estrada by fighting four-division champion Gonzalez in a session that could net him a $1,000 ringside seat.
Fighting in Philadelphia seems like an odd choice considering the interest Rodriguez has in his next fight either at home in San Antonio. back in arizona or in Las Vegas
Rodriguez’s action-packed Matchroom boxing style is a must for a card expected to be led by unbeaten welterweight champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis in his IBF mandatory title defense at Highly criticized Karen Chukadzian, who Ennis defeated 120-108 three times in January 2023.
In the Mexican city of Guevara, 35, Rodriguez meets a fighter coming off a victory over Andrew. Moloney in Perth Australia on May 12, which caused Moloney to retire from the sport.
Estrada was given authority to call a rematch with Rodriguez. But chose to move to the bantamweight division instead.
Lance Pugmire is a senior writer for BoxingScene in the United States. and an associate producer for ProBox TV, Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times, then at The Athletic and USA Today. He received the Boxing Writers Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for coverage. Excellent in the profession
