One of the best boxers in the world will try to add another title to its collection on July 19.
The ring learned that Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez will face Phumelela Cafu in a unifying fight for the title of world junior flyweights that night at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas. Rodriguez, from San Antonio (21-0, 14 KB), will defend his titles of champion of the Ring and WBC of 115 pounds against Cafu, originally from South Africa (11-0-3, 8 KB), which has the WBO belt.
Dazn will broadcast the map of this main fight between Rodriguez, classified n ° 6 on the list of the best boxers all categories of The Ring, and Cafu, from the Dallas Cowboys training center with 12,000 seats. Cafu is classified fourth pretender for the title of Rodriguez according to The Ring.
Cafu, 26, won his WBO belt by beating Kosei Tanaka by shared decision during her last fight on October 14 at Ariake Arena in Tokyo. Tanaka (20-2, 11 ko), which went down to fifth in the junior fly weight classification of The Ring, was regularly announced as a 11-1 favorite against Cafu.
Rodriguez, 25 -year -old, recently beat Pedro Guevara by submission on November 9 at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. Rodriguez put Guevara (42-5-1, 22 kB) at the carpet twice in the third round, when referee Ricky Gonzalez stopped their planned fight on 12 rounds during the Jaron Ennis-Karen Chukhadzhian sub-program.
Rodriguez hoped to fight the champion IBF/WBA Fernando Martinez for another unification of titles, which would have allowed him to add two other crowns to his collection.
Martinez (17-0, 9 KB) accepted revenge in place with the Japanese Kazuto Ioka (31-3-1, 16 KB), which is scheduled for May 11 at the OTA-City General Gymnasium in Tokyo. Martinez had won the WBA belt of 115 pounds against Ioka by winning a unanimous decision on July 7 at the Kokugikan National Sumo Arena in Tokyo.
Martinez is the n ° 1 pretender of The Ring for the title of Rodriguez.
Dazn’s co-combat on July 19 is a super means match between Diego Pacheco de Los Angeles (23-0, 18 KB) and Trevor McCumby (28-1, 21 KB, 1 NC), from Glendale, in Arizona.
Pacheco is classified n ° 2 of the super means by The Ring. McCumBy is not among the first 10 in the classification of super means of The Ring.
Keith Idec is a main writer and a columnist for The Ring. You can reach it on X @idecboxing.