{"id":284748,"date":"2025-11-26T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:10","slug":"you-must-wait-for-undisputed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284748\/","title":{"rendered":"You Must Wait For Undisputed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ring and unified junior bantamweight champion Jesse Rodriguez<\/a> again showcased his elite skills and power, adding the WBA title to his growing collection of belts with a dominant 10th-round knockout of Fernando Martinez<\/a> last weekend.
The 25-year-old’s performance<\/a> caught the eye of perennial 115-pound contender Andrew Moloney<\/a>, The Ring’s No. 6-rated junior bantamweight, who notably shared a ring with Rodriguez’s elder brother Joshua Franco on three occasions.
“Bam was very impressive as he has been in most of his performances,” Moloney (28-4, 18 KOs) told The Ring<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“I did expect more from Martinez, he usually has a really high work rate but even from round one before being hit with anything significant he seemed to be fighting at a lot slower pace and didn’t make any adjustments.”<\/p>\n

At the time of the stoppage Rodriguez was well ahead across all three scorecards: 90-81, 89-82 and 88-83. <\/p>\n

Moloney felt the highlight reel knockout proved the icing on the cake for Rodriguez. <\/p>\n

“The final shot was a very good one,” the 33-year-old said, having recently returned to action himself with a fifth-round stoppage of Pawan Kumar in Fuji on November 1. <\/p>\n

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“We will have to wait and see just how special he is. There are some very interesting, hard fights for him to still have at and around junior bantamweight.”<\/p>\n

Rodriguez will turn his attentions to the IBF title fight between current titleholder Willibaldo Garcia<\/a> and two-weight beltholder Kenshiro Teraji<\/a> on Dec. 27 as part of The Ring V: Night of the Samurai<\/a>, seeking an eventual matchup with the winner for all the marbles. <\/p>\n

However, Moloney insists that won’t be the case in the immediate future.<\/p>\n

“The winner of the Dec. 27 showdown between Teraji and Garcia will have to fight me next,” Moloney reaffirmed, as the IBF’s mandatory challenger.<\/p>\n

“I’m in the gym now working hard to make sure I have that IBF world title strapped around my waist early in 2026.”<\/p>\n

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Although Moloney could theoretically take step-aside money, allowing the respective fighters an opportunity to become undisputed with a provision he boxes the winner, that isn’t the Australian is willing to do. <\/p>\n

That’s according to his manager, Tony Tolj, who confirmed as much on social media. <\/p>\n

“There will be no step aside,” Tolj stated on X. “Team Moloney are fully committed to the Garcia-Teraji winner and as the IBF have ruled in writing, there is no exceptions including unification, no further delays: the winner must fight Andrew Moloney.”<\/p>\n

Questions and\/or comments can be sent to Anson at elraincoat@live.co.uk and you can follow him on X@AnsonWainwr1ght<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ring and unified junior bantamweight champion Jesse Rodriguez again showcased his elite skills and power, adding the WBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-284748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}