Turki AlalalShikh has revealed that Super Fly-VWBC weight champion Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez will face WBA Fernando Martinez belt holder (19-0, 9 kos) in a merger combat in November in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
However, BAM needs to win its merger fight against the unbeaten WBO 115-LB Pumelela Cau (11-0-3, 8 KOS) champion on July 19th at the Ford Center in the Star in Frisco, Texas. That fight will be shown Live on Dazn. Journal He reported the news from Turki Alalshikh.
Why announced Turki early
The big question is why Turki didn’t stay until after fighting Bam Rodriguez with Pumelela Cau before announcing the combat merger with Argentina Fernando Martinez? The publication of the fighting before Bam’s game against Cau jumps the gun, because he may lose this battle.
It is a bad form to publish a fight before fighting important mergers. It’s one thing if this was a tune up to bam, but this is a merger fight against an outstanding champion.
It is not as if Rodriguez, 25, is unbeaten. We saw Bam struggling to fight him against Cristian Gonzalez Hernandez and Israel Gonzalez. Both of those games show that bam cannot walk on water. He is human, and may lose to the talented South African café. This guy has a lot of talent and can punch.
Fragile bam jaw open
Bam Rodriguez is not hard to hit, and A large lantern jaw already broken once by Cristian Gonzalez sixth round their battle in 2023. Cau may be able to duplicate that effort by targeting a bam jaw, as this is the most prominent feature of it. You may have a ‘hit me’ sign attached to it.
The only reason I can see for Turki announces the early fights of Martinez vs Bam is to increase interest in the Rordriguez counterparity against Cau on July 19th. Here’s one way to do it, but still, it looks bad.
Fernando Martinez, 33, looked like pure gold in his last two fights, beating Kazuto Ioka’s 115-weight IBF champion through a pair of unanimous 12-round decisions. In fact the re-sending was not needed last May, because Martinez dominated Ioka in the first fighting in 2024, winning by the scores 117-111, 120-108, and 116-112.
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