{"id":590904,"date":"2026-05-18T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590904\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:03:09","slug":"naoya-inoue-jesse-bam-rodriguez-in-japan-without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590904\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue-Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez in Japan? &#8216;Without a shadow of a doubt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\">\u201cAnd with him [Rodriguez] moving up another weight class, it gives them even more reason to talk about it. And I think if he wins on June 13, I think it\u2019s inevitable. Bam is an incredible young man where he wants to move so quick. He\u2019s not someone that wants to be around having loads of voluntary defenses and fighting in eight years\u2019 time. He wants to get in now. \u201cHe feels like right now he&#8217;s in his absolute prime, which he is. So I think that he&#8217;s got to try and beat Vargas, which is not going to be easy. And if he does that and he feels good at 118lbs, you\u2019ve got to hurry up and make the Inoue fight, because sooner or later Inoue will move to 126lbs and then it will be over. You&#8217;re talking really once Usyk goes, which probably won&#8217;t be long, it&#8217;s number one and number two pound for pound in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd with him [Rodriguez] moving up another weight class, it gives them even more reason to talk about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,202219,202220,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-naoya-inoue-vs-jesse-bam-rodriguez-in-japan-without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt","tag-says-promoter","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590904","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=590904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}