Juan Franciso Estrada has invoked his rematch clause to drive a second battle towards 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 battle 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 consider 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 might be a think about why he’s chosen to take the second battle.
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. In keeping with boxing insider Dan Rafael, the Estrada vs. Rodriguez rematch will “seemingly happen in December.”
Estrada’s resolution to invoke his rematch clause, which was predictable on his half, foils ‘Bam’ Rodriguez’s plans to battle a unification towards one of many champions at 115. Rodriguez was eying unifications towards these tremendous flyweight champions:
– Fernando Martinez – IBF– Kazuto Ioka – WBA– Kosei Tanaka – WBO
Estrada’s Decline Put up-Chocolatito Battle
Estrada hasn’t regarded like the identical fighter since beating Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez by a 12-round break up resolution of their second battle on March 13, 2021. Though Estrada deserved the victory, he took many photographs from Chocolatito in that battle.
The Nicaraguan expertise, Chocolatito, hit Estrada with combos your entire battle, which can have completely broken him. Estrada hasn’t regarded close to his outdated self after that second-second conflict towards Gonzalez. Juan Franciso ate a whole lot of combos 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 battle with Gonzalez in September 2016. Within the quick aftermath of that battle, 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 consider ‘Chocolatito’ was robbed in his third battle towards Estrada on December 3, 2022, in Glendale, Arizona. The judges gave Estrada a 12-round majority resolution, however followers on social media and seemingly many at ringside disagreed.
They felt that Roman Gonzalez received. I watched the battle, 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 battle in November 2012.
