Via Allan Fox: Shakur Stevenson believes Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez will be ready to beat superstar Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue within the next two years.
Shakur rates 22-year-old WBC super flyweight champion Bam Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs) as one of his favorites after beating the 35-year-old Srisaket Sor Rungvisai last Saturday night and his 12-round unanimous victory over Carlos Cuadras earlier this year.
Bam Rodriguez did an outstanding job in slowing down Rungvisai’s offense by moving and holding last Saturday night at Tech Port Arena in San Antonio, Texas.
Stevenson might go a bit ahead when praising Bam Rodriguez as his last two opponents, Rungvisai and Cuadras, 33, are no longer among the top performers. Both saw their heyday come and go four to six years ago.
At this stage in their careers, they were old fossils that were thoroughly examined by Bam Rodriguez’s curator and deemed impossible to threaten to defeat him.
What we’ve seen from Bam is the product of careful matchmaking by his promoters by getting him in with his exes, Cuadras & Rungvisai, and then cheering about victory. What we are seeing is stupid goldand sadly, young boxers like Shakur Stevenson have been fooled along with many casual boxing fans.
If Bam’s promoters at Matchroom Boxing believe he’s a superstar, they’ll next fight him against one of these boxers:
- Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez
- Naoya Inoue
- Stephen Fulton
- Nonito Donaire
- Juan Francisco Estrada
If Bam Rodriguez is so good, why would the promoters & coaches Robert Garcia want to put him against the next defeated Julio Cesar Martinez and not Chocolatito, Fulton, Donaire, Estrada or Inoue?
For those who don’t remember, Rey Martinez was learned by Chocolatito in his last fight and was beaten a loser in a losing battle. How does Bam Rodriguez come to the front by fighting Rey Martinez so he loses to Chocolatito? What is the benefit of that?
Again, this is all about trying to sell a product by putting together a fighter against the bad guys to make him look better than he is. It’s stupid gold. If Bam Rodriguez is the real one, throw him in with Chocolatito, and see how awesome he is.
Advertisers are very clever with how they build a warrior by pairing them with old ones to make them look like the real thing. Unfortunately, when those boxers fight people with quality, they fall apart, but not until they make money.
That’s why we won’t see Bam Rodriguez team up with anyone good who can beat him because he’ll lose, and then the jigs will go up.
They won’t let Bam Rodriguez be near those fighters because he doesn’t have enough strength to beat any of them, and the swaying & moving he does won’t be enough to beat the talents. that ability.
“We know all about Bam and we know his talent in the gym,” said Bam Rodriguez coach Robert Garcia. Little Giant Boxing. “When they suggested we fight, I never doubted that we could defeat him [Rungvisai].
Bam is one of my favorite boxers, wow he is special, I really want to meet him and the monster just needs to give him 2 more years
– Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) June 26, 2022
“Man, that kid is so special and there’s something particularly crazy about him,Shakur talks about Bam Rodriguez. “Two years from now I will choose Bam
“Honestly, I want him to drop to 112. If there’s a champion at 112 ready to go up against him, we’d love it,” Robert said of his plans for Bam Rodriguez. “I don’t want to mention names.
“WBC will probably be the easiest one [to make], but with Rey Martinez, we don’t know if he’ll gain weight if he shows up, or if he’ll fight if he gets sick. He’s done it many times, so I don’t know.
“Perfect, excellent,” Robert said when asked how he rated Bam Rodriguez’s performance against Rungvisai.
“I have to talk to Eddie [Hearn] about that,” Robert said of Bam Rodriguez’s ability to beat Canelo Alvarez vs. Gennadiy Golovkin III on September 17.
“It may be too soon, but I think when he takes a couple of weeks off he will be ready to go back to the gym.
“It’s a business, and we have to work things out. In the end, everyone gets to witness one of the best pounds in the world,” continued Robert Garcia of Bam Rodriguez.
“The future is just; He was only 22 years old, a child. He said in the first rounds; he feels him [Rungvisai] very strong, but after that, he didn’t feel his strength anymore. He was still physically strong, but he never bothered with his strength.
“He continues to fight smart. This guy [Rungvisai] was very experienced and very dangerous. So we still tell him to fight him smartly. In the final round, he hurt him and knew how to finish him off,” Garcia said.
There’s no one at the age of 112 for Bam Rodriguez to fight that the boxing public has ever heard of but Rey Martinez, but he’s about to lose to Chocolatito one way.
Boxing fans familiar with Rey Martinez are well aware of his one-sided loss to Chocolatito, and they won’t be impressed with Bam Rodriguez fighting him now after that loss. Fans who don’t know who Rey Martinez is won’t notice Bam Rodriguez fighting him, and that’s a division fans don’t follow. Fans ignore the 112-lb split.
“Fight smart, use leverage and use angle, and stay smart,” Robert said when asked what he was saying to Bam Rodriguez between rounds. “We knew during the war that we had to fight smart.
“Last year, we worked really hard to get him to fight, we had a hard time getting him to fight, and I got him two top ranked games. It’s hard to get him a contract,” Robert said of the problems they’ve had in the recent past trying to land Bam Rodriguez.
