{"id":711189,"date":"2026-06-03T01:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711189\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:13:12","slug":"hearn-confirms-netflixs-interest-in-inoue-bam-rodriguez-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711189\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearn Confirms Netflix\u2019s Interest In Inoue-Bam Rodriguez Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTurki Alalshikh, Netflix \u2026 we\u2019ve spoken to them,\u201d Hearn told The Ring while promoting the Anthony Joshua-Kristian Prenga heavyweight fight in London. \u201cThey wanna see the fight. [It\u2019s] the biggest fight for Inoue by a mile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alalshikh, owner of The Ring and chairman of Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Entertainment Authority, wants to complete a deal for <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/naoya-inoue-3EiWl7niEWkAd2sT8cfQec\">Inoue<\/a> to defend his Ring, IBF, WBA, WBC and WBO 122-pound championships against <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/jesse-rodriguez-531m1hP2319TmWdJDTCsN5\">Rodriguez<\/a> sometime in January in Japan. Inoue, 33, is <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/fighters\/rankings?org=p4p\">ranked No. 1 on The Ring\u2019s pound-for-pound list<\/a>, three spots ahead of Rodriguez.Inoue (33-0, 27 KOs) <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ringmagazine.com\/news\/naoya-inoue-beats-junto-nakatani-to-win-battle-of-japan-retains-titles-2sCixRMTzqD0AvLpIBXlSG\">defeated Japanese countryman Junto Nakatani (32-1, 24 KOs) by unanimous decision May 2<\/a> before a capacity crowd of approximately 55,000 at Tokyo Dome.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez (23-0, 16 KOs) owns The Ring, WBA, WBC and WBO junior bantamweight championships, but he will move up from the 115-pound division to 118 for his bantamweight debut June 13. A southpaw from San Antonio, Texas, he&#8217;s scheduled to challenge WBA champ Antonio Vargas (19-1-1, 11 KOs) in the main event <a class=\"underline text-text-primary font-medium hover:text-blue-70 transition-colors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-US\/sport\/Sport:2x2oqzx60orpoeugkd754ga17\">DAZN will stream worldwide<\/a> from Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>DraftKings lists Rodriguez, 26, as a 25-1 favorite over Vargas, of Kissimmee, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVargas is a good fighter, tough opponent,\u201d Hearn said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s next week. It\u2019s coming around so quick. And if Bam comes through that, he\u2019ll be calling Inoue out in the ring that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hearn \u2013 whose company, Matchroom Boxing, promotes Rodriguez \u2013 isn\u2019t surprised Netflix is intrigued by an Inoue-Rodriguez bout because of its appeal internationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIit\u2019s a massive, massive fight for Japan,\u201d he said. \u201cJessie can beat him. And it would be an unbelievable move to become a four-division world champion. Next week he goes for the third division, so really with [Oleksandr] Usyk probably on his way out and obviously [almost] losing to Rico [Verhoeven], it\u2019s really No. 1 and No. 2, essentially, pound-for-pound, fighting each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith Idec is a senior writer and columnist for The Ring. He can be reached on X @idecboxing<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTurki Alalshikh, Netflix \u2026 we\u2019ve spoken to them,\u201d Hearn told The Ring while promoting the Anthony Joshua-Kristian Prenga&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[72640,703,184736,711,49,48,24361,27975,82,1134],"class_list":["post-711189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-object-object","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-articles","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-featured-news","tag-junior-featherweight","tag-sports","tag-the-ring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711189","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=711189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}