{"id":349562,"date":"2026-06-12T07:36:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=349562"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:36:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:06:29","slug":"jesse-rodriguez-says-naoya-inoue-clash-will-come-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/jesse-rodriguez-says-naoya-inoue-clash-will-come-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Rodriguez Says Naoya Inoue Clash Will Come In Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI just got to maintain doing my work, keep getting wins, and that fight\u2019s going to return,\u201d Rodriguez said to Fight Hub TV when asked if he still believed a gathering with Inoue was inevitable.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, it\u2019s inevitable at this point. So, I just got to maintain doing my work, keep winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rodriguez has repeatedly been linked with Inoue in recent months, particularly following the Japanese star\u2019s victory over Junto Nakatani. Nevertheless, Bam also indicated that he still sees himself growing into higher weight classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI form of agree with you. I\u2019m still young. I feel like I still have my man strength to grow into. So, I mean, it\u2019s only a matter of time. I got to, like I said, got to maintain doing my job and that\u2019s winning,\u201d said Bam Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Inoue, now 33 years old, turned skilled in 2012 and has spent 14 years competing at world level. Rodriguez, meanwhile, is 26 and only in his ninth yr as an expert.<\/p>\n

Although fans proceed to push for one among boxing\u2019s most anticipated matchups, Jesse made it clear that overlooking Vargas could be a mistake.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I don\u2019t get past this fight, then all that talks out the window. So, I save that for after the fight. I got to do my work and be certain that I get the job done Saturday,\u201d said Bam.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez also praised Vargas\u2019 credentials ahead of their meeting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe his resume, his experience, you realize, he\u2019s an Olympian, man. That claims loads. It takes a whole lot of winning and a whole lot of skill to even turn out to be an Olympian,\u201d said Rodriguez about Vargas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t know his name, in order that they\u2019re just assuming he\u2019s a no person. But real boxing heads, they know. And I\u2019m an actual boxing head. So, that\u2019s why I trained my ass off for this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victory over Vargas would add one other world title to Rodriguez\u2019s growing collection and intensify calls for a future collision with Inoue. Rodriguez repeatedly emphasized that Vargas stays his priority and that discussions about Inoue can wait until after Saturday\u2019s bout.<\/p>\n

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Tom Galm<\/strong> is a boxing journalist who has covered the worldwide fight landscape since 2014, specializing in heavyweight evaluation, industry trends, and fighter psychology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\u201cI just got to maintain doing my work, keep getting wins, and that fight\u2019s going to return,\u201d Rodriguez said to Fight Hub TV when asked if he still believed a gathering with Inoue was inevitable. \u201cLike I said, it\u2019s inevitable at this point. So, I just got to maintain doing my work, keep winning.\u201d Rodriguez […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1128,1466,7984,8322,7440,446],"class_list":["post-349562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-clash","tag-inoue","tag-jesse","tag-naoya","tag-rodriguez","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349565,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349562\/revisions\/349565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}