WBC super flyweight champion Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez (16-0, 11 KOs) will defend his world title against Israel “Jiga” Gonzalez (28-4-1, 11 KOs) as the co-main event on the undercard of the trilogy clash between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas September 17. The event will be broadcast live on DAZN Pay-Per-View in the U.S. and Canada as well as around the world on regular DAZN (excluding Mexico, Latin America, and Kazakhstan).
Rodriguez is coming off a stoppage win over former champ Srisaket Sor Rungvisai on his San Antonio home turf last month, while Gonzalez is making his fourth world title attempt.
To date, this is the only Canelo-GGG undercard bout to be announced.
Canelo – GGG with Chocolatito – Bam would have been a great card, but Gonzalez is a fine opponent. Fought Gonzalez, Yafai and Ancajas and he’s still just 25.
Sadly they do not do cards like that anymore. I often think of the card of the Drama in the Bahamas. Imagine Thomas Hearns and Ali on the same card in todays world? This is Hearns just coming off his fight with Leonard. Heck they even had Shavers and an up and coming Greg Page there that night. I was just about to turn 10 and I listened to much of the card on the radio and watched it on tape delay on the Wild World of Sports the next day…I think. It was awhile ago..LOL!! But despite it being a sad night….what a special card. I did not grasp that at the time.
Agree but the young fans cant understand, they are happy with a fight between a light heavy who is by no one knows the magic making the MW limit and a way past his prime who is 42 MW former great..
Hey I am happy Bam is on the card. I only got carried away in nostalgia there last night because if Bam were fighting Chocolatito on the card it would be pretty cool for that to happen in today’s boxing world.
I think they’re fighting at supermiddle Regis
lol! Nothing wrong with getting a little carried away occasionally Pete. Nothing wrong with it at all.
Thanks Lucie! What can I say…I love the sport and the 80s was when I started so I tend to drift back there sometimes.LOL!
Let’s Go Bammmm
Nice to see a quick turnaround, I think he is one of the most exciting fighters to watch right now and still has miles to go in his career. Wham mam thank you bam
Let’s just hope the main event is competitive
Not complaining about bam but Canelo vs GGG 3 is a sad fight..
Don’t feel the excitement for the fight. It’s past due. Time to move on.
Canelo is running out of places to go so he decided to fight an old GGG. He said he was going to run it back with Bivol and ran away from the challenge. He refuses to fight Benavidez or Charlo.
Canelo has to work overtime to sell this fight and not even GGG is buying the “this is personal” BS. GGG know Canelo ran out of options and he was chosen as the safest challenge. Must be flattering.
Then I guess livestream will be the way to go then.