{"id":849218,"date":"2026-08-09T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T15:06:08","slug":"terence-crawford-delivers-verdict-on-naoya-inoue-vs-bam-rodriguez-hes-showed-what-level-hes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849218\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford delivers verdict on Naoya Inoue vs Bam Rodriguez: “He’s showed what level he’s on”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terence Crawford<\/a> has weighed in with his view on the proposed Naoya Inoue<\/a> vs Jesse Rodriguez<\/a> showdown.<\/p>\n

Pound-for-pound stars Inoue and Rodriguez have been linked to a fight over the past year, with that speculation only increasing after the pair both extended their respective unbeaten records recently.<\/p>\n

Inoue retained his undisputed super-bantamweight crown with a unanimous decision victory over Junto Nakatani at the Tokyo Dome in Japan in May<\/a>, while \u2018Bam\u2019 won the WBA bantamweight title with a sixth round stoppage triumph against Antonio Vargas in Glendale, Arizona the following month.<\/p>\n

Crawford is now the latest big name to have spoken out about the potential super-fight, as whilst talking to Ring Champs With Ak & Barak<\/a>, he used Inoue\u2019s clash with Nakatani to break down how a meeting with Rodriguez could unfold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough [for Rodriguez]. [Inoue] does a lot of smart things in that ring, I just watched his last fight. If Nakatani didn\u2019t get headbutted, that was a close fight. His eye got messed up, but Nakatani ain\u2019t no joke. He showed what level he\u2019s on in that fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cBam is bigger [than Nakatani] but Nakatani is taller and longer, he was [throwing] punches in bunches, we\u2019ve just got to see how the fight plays out.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems as though the fight will have to happen sooner rather than later if it is to take place, after it was revealed that Inoue has set a deadline of March 2027 for the bout before he will turn his attention elsewhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Terence Crawford has weighed in with his view on the proposed Naoya Inoue vs Jesse Rodriguez showdown. Pound-for-pound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-849218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}