{"id":935721,"date":"2026-10-21T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935721\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:06:08","slug":"naoya-inoue-vs-jesse-bam-rodriguez-has-new-targeted-date-we-will-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/935721\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue vs Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez has new targeted date: “We will make a deal”"},"content":{"rendered":"

An in-demand showdown between Naoya Inoue<\/a> and Jesse Rodriguez<\/a> was beginning to look less likely, but there are now reports that a deal will be made for a new targeted date.<\/p>\n

Following a career-best triumph over Junto Nakatani, Inoue was immediately mentioned for a clash with another pound-for-pound rival Rodriguez, who has since began his move up to super-bantamweight but has stopped off at bantamweight along the way.<\/p>\n

At 118lbs, \u2018Bam\u2019 debuted with a knockout win against WBA titleholder Antonio Vargas<\/a>, but wants one more outing in the division before heading to 122lbs, with a unification against WBO world champion Christian Medina being the most likely option.<\/p>\n

In response, Inoue agreed to wait but set a deadline of March 2027 for their meeting, until suggestions of a fight in either April or May then caused Inoue to instead begin preparation for a move up to featherweight last week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, speaking with Ring Magazine<\/a>, Rodriguez\u2019s trainer Robert Garcia maintained confidence that a deal will be struck for Inoue vs Bam to take place in March.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Inoue is just playing it smart. I don\u2019t think that he is backing out of the fight. We will make a deal for March.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez-Medina has been mentioned as a possible bout for the Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua undercard on Friday, December 11, alongside a potential heavyweight match-up involving Deontay Wilder and Jai Opetaia, as well as a proposed appearance from Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An in-demand showdown between Naoya Inoue and Jesse Rodriguez was beginning to look less likely, but there are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-935721","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\/935721","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=935721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}