{"id":649513,"date":"2026-06-20T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649513\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T20:38:12","slug":"tim-bradley-makes-ko-prediction-for-naoya-inoue-vs-bam-rodriguez-after-latest-win-six-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649513\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bradley makes KO prediction for Naoya Inoue vs ‘Bam’ Rodriguez after latest win: “Six rounds”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Rodriguez<\/a> is coming off a knockout win against Antonio Vargas, capturing the WBA bantamweight title and moving closer to facing Naoya Inoue<\/a> in the process.<\/p>\n

Following Inoue\u2019s win over Junto Nakatani last month, he has been linked with a pound-for-pound showdown against Rodriguez, who vacated his unified super-flyweight crown ahead of the Vargas bout.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez required only six rounds to dethrone the bantamweight champion<\/a> upon his debut in the division, but admitted that he felt a real difference in the new division.<\/p>\n

Speaking on his YouTube channel<\/a>, two-weight world champion Tim Bradley advised Rodriguez to spend some more time in the bantamweight division before he moves up once more in pursuit of a shot at Inoue\u2019s undisputed super-bantamweight title.<\/p>\n

\u201cBam has tremendous skills, pound-for-pound, Inoue is on the pound-for-pound list, but is he ready right now, like the next fight? Hell no. I think that Bam needs a couple more touches.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Robert Garcia is a lot smarter than [people realise]. Robert Garcia just answering questions is one thing, but the Robert Garcia that I talk to is a very smart trainer, in a sense of how he moves his fighters, he is a manager too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows that Bam is not ready and he knows that performance was a little shaky, as well, because one thing about Robert Garcia is that he is real and he was a former fighter, so he understands.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley previously predicted that Inoue would prove to be \u2018too explosive\u2019 for the Texan<\/a> and, after seeing Rodriguez take on Vargas, he has doubled down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think he is ready yet, this jump to 118lbs against this particular champion, who has been knocked out before, that chin was there for the taking. I feel like, even during the fight, I felt like Bam\u2019s power didn\u2019t translate like I did at 115lbs.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Bam brought this type of performance to an Inoue fight, it wouldn\u2019t go past six rounds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Inoue-Rodriguez is being slated for January 2027, with WBO bantamweight world champion Christian Medina believed to be next on Rodriguez\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jesse Rodriguez is coming off a knockout win against Antonio Vargas, capturing the WBA bantamweight title and moving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-649513","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\/649513","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=649513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}