{"id":640752,"date":"2026-06-16T00:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640752\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T00:33:08","slug":"naoya-inoue-vs-bam-rodriguez-may-now-not-happen-next-despite-latest-ko-win-he-told-me-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/640752\/","title":{"rendered":"Naoya Inoue vs &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez may now not happen next despite latest KO win: &#8220;He told me that&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Rodriguez became a three-division world champion on Saturday when he halted Antonio Vargas inside six rounds, but a further move up to face pound-for-pound rival <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/naoya-inoue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naoya Inoue<\/a> may be stalled.<\/p>\n<p>Following Inoue\u2019s latest defence of the undisputed super-bantamweight world titles against Junto Nakatani last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/hearn-says-he-has-the-man-to-beat-inoue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodriguez has been the name that he has been linked to<\/a> with many reports suggesting it is in the works to take place next.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bam\u2019 vacated his unified super-flyweight world titles and, at the weekend, made his bantamweight debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/boxing\/story\/_\/id\/49057405\/jesse-bam-rodriguez-stops-antonio-vargas-improves-24-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">claiming Vargas\u2019 WBA title via sixth-round knockout.<\/a> Despite the statement win, many feel that the move up in size was noticeable and took its toll.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DAZNBoxing\/status\/2066008467530297642?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">DAZN<\/a> broadcast, his trainer Robert Garcia confirmed that he wants Rodriguez to \u2018pace himself\u2019 and have one more fight at bantamweight before moving up to 122lbs and challenging for Inoue\u2019s throne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the fight, he did tell me, \u2018Listen, I did feel the strength\u2019, he is a bigger guy so why would we go straight into another division which is going to make a big difference. We have got to pace ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no doubt that he is going to go out there and perform against Inoue and that he is going to beat Inoue. But, I need that one more fight before that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When discussing possible bantamweight opponents, Garcia then picked WBO champion Christian Medina over WBC ruler and brother of \u2018The Monster\u2019, Takuma Inoue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe personally, I would prefer Medina because he is a very strong fighter and he is going to give us a test.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Rodriguez is eyeing up unifications, he has also been ordered to take on WBA \u2018champion-in-recess\u2019, Seiya Tsutsumi, and will be stripped of the WBA title if he fails to face him within six months of Saturday\u2019s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Rodriguez became a three-division world champion on Saturday when he halted Antonio Vargas inside six rounds, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-640752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640752","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=640752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}