{"id":744463,"date":"2026-08-20T21:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744463\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T21:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T21:58:10","slug":"jesse-bam-rodriguez-responds-to-gervonta-davis-call-out-for-fight-requiring-four-division-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/744463\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez responds to Gervonta Davis call out for fight requiring four division jump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gervonta Davis\u2019 return date remains unknown but he may have an opponent in mind for when he does after recently calling out Jesse Rodriguez<\/a>, and now \u2018Bam\u2019s response has been shared.<\/p>\n

Davis has not won a contest since June 2024, drawing against Lamont Roach Jr in his solitary outing since then back in March 2025<\/a>, and being stripped of his WBA lightweight world title due to inactivity that has been brought on by external legal issues.<\/p>\n

In October, Davis\u2019 old belt will be up for grabs as Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi compete for world honours after being on standby throughout the year, with the undefeated duo each poised to step through the ropes with over a year\u2019s worth of ring rust to contend with.<\/p>\n

Now that he is without a belt, it is unclear which weight \u2018Tank\u2019 will return at, with the three-division world champion having been linked to a super-lightweight rematch with Isaac \u2018Pitbull\u2019 Cruz, but having also bizarrely called out reigning WBA bantamweight champion, \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sean Zittel<\/a>, Rodriguez\u2019s trainer Robert Garcia revealed that Rodriguez has agreed to the fight, which would presumably be at a maximum of 135lbs, 17lbs and four weight classes higher than where \u2018Bam\u2019 currently competes.<\/p>\n

\u201cTank Davis sent him a private message challenging him and Bam was like, \u2018yeah, let\u2019s do it\u2019. Bam is not afraid of nobody, Bam knows that he can compete against anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, despite accepting the proposal, it seems as though Naoya Inoue is Rodriguez\u2019s target<\/a>, with the pair looking likely to collide in an iconic battle in Japan in either February or March of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gervonta Davis\u2019 return date remains unknown but he may have an opponent in mind for when he does…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744463","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\/744463","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=744463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}