{"id":316936,"date":"2025-11-30T19:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316936\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:07:11","slug":"christian-medina-could-be-next-for-jesse-bam-rodriguez-says-eddie-hearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316936\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Medina could be next for Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez, says Eddie Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CoverdaleSun Nov 30, 2025, 7:05 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Probably a weight thing. Bare in mind IBF has a rehydrate rule too.<\/p>\n<p>Either that or negotiation stance.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t apply in unifications.<\/p>\n<p>El_EscorpionSun Nov 30, 2025, 6:51 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Was Hoping to see Christian Medina fight against Juan Francisco Estrada (#1 in the WBO rankings) in 2026, with the winner fighting Bam Rodriguez afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t Bam fight Takuma Inoue first?<\/p>\n<p>RJJ9402GOATSun Nov 30, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Probably a weight thing. Bare in mind IBF has a rehydrate rule too.<\/p>\n<p>Either that or negotiation stance.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure the rehydration clause doesn\u2019t apply with unifications. Unified rules and all that.<\/p>\n<p>IdunnoshetSun Nov 30, 2025, 2:21 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Probably a weight thing. Bare in mind IBF has a rehydrate rule too.<\/p>\n<p>Either that or negotiation stance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weight thing.<br \/>\nBam gets pretty heavy in between fights.<\/p>\n<p>So far the weight cut hasn&#8217;t affected his performance.<br \/>\nBut him and his team probably has an issue with making Superfly.<\/p>\n<p>M312Sun Nov 30, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Why would he go up to face another non-star when he\u2019s 1 belt away from undisputed ? Is he having trouble making weight ? I just don\u2019t see the logic in passing up this opportunity just because he can\u2019t fight for the IBF next. <\/p>\n<p>Probably a weight thing. Bare in mind IBF has a rehydrate rule too.<\/p>\n<p>Either that or negotiation stance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CoverdaleSun Nov 30, 2025, 7:05 PM UTC Probably a weight thing. Bare in mind IBF has a rehydrate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,141096,13135,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-316936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-christian-medina","12":"tag-jesse-rodriguez","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}