Most combat followers and combat specialists are in settlement: Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez completely belongs within the prime 10 pound-for-pound rankings all of us like to debate a lot. Rodriguez has the credentials, he has the names on his report, and “Bam” has the sheer expertise. However the place within the prime 10 does the unbeaten two-weight world champion should be positioned?
Contemporary off his thrilling, finally crushing KO win over the beforehand unstopped Juan Francisco Estrada – a fighter whose picture you’ll count on to see when wanting up the phrase ‘powerful’ within the dictionary – Rodriguez has received combat followers questioning how very nice he can go on to develop into. At age 24, “Bam” might nonetheless be a 12 months or three away from his peak years. As particular as he has been already, that’s fairly a thought.
Rodriguez shouldn’t be solely expert and particular, he’s additionally constantly thrilling. Actually, the decrease weights are buzzing proper now, what with Rodriguez, Naoya Inoue (who is probably a future celebrity dance associate for Rodriguez), Tank Davis, Nick Ball, Liam Paro and others lighting up the game with sensible profitable shows. It’s not all concerning the heavyweights, as nice as that division has been these previous few months.
So, once more, the place within the prime 10 pound-for-pound rankings does “Bam” Rodriguez should be positioned?
Right here’s a prime 10 it’s possible you’ll or could not agree with:
1: Naoya Inoue
2: Oleksandr Usyk
3: Terence Crawford
4: Canelo Alvarez
5: Tank Davis
6: Artur Beterbiev
7: Dmitry Bivol
8: Jesse Rodriguez
9: Junto Nakatini
10: Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Now, it’s as everyone knows, unimaginable to compile a prime 10 pound-for-pound checklist that everybody is pleased with. There are some wonderful fighters on the market proper now, and never all of them may be ranked in any prime 10. Additionally, it’s possible you’ll really feel “Bud” Crawford is the highest canine, not “Monster” Inoue. But it surely have to be agreed how every of the highest three guys on the above checklist is an exceptionally proficient fighter. Swap the highest three round it’s possible you’ll, nevertheless it actually is all the way down to Inoue, Usyk and Crawford so far as who one of the best fighter on the planet is true now pound-for-pound.
