Jesse Rodriguez stopped pound-for-pound nice Juan Estrada in a barnstorming battle to body-shot his approach onto the record.
‘Bam’ folded Estrada within the seventh spherical with an ideal punch after the duo traded leather-based for six rounds at a packed Footprint Heart in Phoenix. The 24-year-old moved to 20-0 together with his thirteenth profession stoppage and is already one of many greats of his technology.
Rodriguez enters the highest ten for the primary time at quantity 5.
The scorecards have been shut on the finish of the competition, with Rodriguez up on one, Estrada the opposite, and the third a draw. On the post-fight presser, Rodriguez mentioned, “Surprising! Good factor I obtained him out of there,” when going over the ending.
On what’s subsequent, he added, “I’ve been saying I’ll keep at 115 for 2 or three fights. I do know there’s a rematch clause with Estrada, so if he desires to undergo with that, we are able to run it again. If not, I would like the winner of Ioka vs Martinez [on July 7].”
Bam Rodriguez folds his approach into the Pound for Pound High 5
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Teofimo beats Claggett
Teofimo Lopez pushed to 21-1 in Miami Seashore in additional motion when efficiently defending his WBO tremendous light-weight crown. Lopez scored a unanimous choice over the unheralded Steve Claggett, who dropped to 38-8-2, 6 KOs after this newest loss.
Lopez proceeded to backflip and dance after the victory in an unwarranted show contemplating his triumph and opponent.
Regardless of profitable 9 straight, Claggett had by no means confronted anyone in Lopez’s class. The 35-year-old couldn’t get previous Lopez’s protection and misplaced each spherical of the twelve in a coaching title protection.
“The Takeover’ received with scores of 120-108 twice and 119-109 because the 26-year-old hopefully pushes in the direction of one of many different champions.
Within the aftermath, he mentioned, “I knew precisely what sort of fighter he was. I knew he would come ahead and check my conditioning. And that’s what we had. We went by twelve rounds.
“The need must be stronger than the ability. And that’s what we confirmed tonight. If I used to be drained, I do know he was extra drained as a result of I labored very onerous for this. We knew we needed to break him down. The physique photographs have been hurting him.”
“I’m very grateful. He’s a troublesome fighter. I don’t suppose anybody ought to overlook him. I knew that coming into this.”
In distinction to Rodriguez, Lopez is unmoved from the WBN P4P record on account of a going-through motions win.
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