Juan Franciso Estrada has invoked his rematch clause to drive a second struggle in opposition to Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez after dropping his WBC tremendous flyweight title to him by a seventh-round knockout on June twenty ninth in Phoenix, Arizona.
The 34-year-old Estrada (44-4, 28 KOs) regarded outgunned by the 24-year-old ‘Bam’ Rodriguez final June, getting battered many of the struggle earlier than being stopped within the seventh. Other than a flash knockdown Estrada scored, it was
Monetary Motivations?
It was Juan Francisco’s third consecutive poor efficiency since 2022, making some imagine he’s washed up and has nothing left within the tank to avenge his loss to ‘Bam’ Rodriguez. The cash Estrada will make in a rematch with Rodriguez may very well be a think about why he’s chosen to take the second struggle.
Even when Estrada is knocked out once more, he’ll get a pleasant payday, which is able to assist cushion his retirement years in his native Mexico. Based on boxing insider Dan Rafael, the Estrada vs. Rodriguez rematch will “doubtless happen in December.”
Estrada’s choice to invoke his rematch clause, which was predictable on his half, foils ‘Bam’ Rodriguez’s plans to struggle a unification in opposition to one of many champions at 115. Rodriguez was eying unifications in opposition to these tremendous flyweight champions:
– Fernando Martinez – IBF
– Kazuto Ioka – WBA
– Kosei Tanaka – WBO
Estrada’s Decline Publish-Chocolatito Battle
Estrada hasn’t regarded like the identical fighter since beating Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez by a 12-round cut up choice of their second struggle on March 13, 2021. Though Estrada deserved the victory, he took many photographs from Chocolatito in that struggle.
The Nicaraguan expertise, Chocolatito, hit Estrada with mixtures your entire struggle, which can have completely broken him. Estrada hasn’t regarded close to his outdated self after that second-second conflict in opposition to Gonzalez. Juan Franciso ate plenty of mixtures from Chocolatito, and it’s not stunning that he’s not regarded the identical since.
Former WBC tremendous flyweight champion Carlos Cuadras is one other fighter whose profession nosedived after his struggle with Gonzalez in September 2016. Within the speedy aftermath of that struggle, Cuadras misplaced two out of his subsequent three contests.
In Estrada’s three fights since then, he’s regarded like an empty shell of his former self, beating Argi Cortes and Chocolatito with very questionable selections and being knocked out by ‘Bam’ Rodriguez.
Many boxing followers imagine ‘Chocolatito’ was robbed in his third struggle in opposition to Estrada on December 3, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona. The judges gave Estrada a 12-round majority choice, however followers on social media and seemingly many at ringside disagreed.
They felt that Roman Gonzalez gained. I watched the struggle, and I had Gonzalez simply successful by 9 rounds to 3. Certainly, it was much more one-sided than Chocolatito’s win over Estrada of their first struggle in November 2012.
