{"id":30968,"date":"2026-06-17T09:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jesse-bam-rodriguez-beats-antonio-vargas-to-win-wba-bantamweight-title\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:52:05","slug":"jesse-bam-rodriguez-beats-antonio-vargas-to-win-wba-bantamweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jesse-bam-rodriguez-beats-antonio-vargas-to-win-wba-bantamweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez beats Antonio Vargas to win WBA bantamweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez stopped Antonio Vargas with a sixth-round technical knockout to become a three-weight world champion.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rodriguez knocked down fellow American Vargas, who was defending the WBA bantamweight title at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, in the fourth round and landed a powerful left in the sixth before the bout was stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old, who has a 24-0 professional record, has held world titles at super-flyweight and flyweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although he could remain in the bantamweight class to challenge WBO champion Christian Medina for another world title, Rodriguez has also been linked with a move up to super-bantamweight to challenge undisputed champion Naoya Inoue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m ready for whoever, whenever,&#8221; Rodriguez said. &#8220;Put them in front of me, and I&#8217;m going to say yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c14yn2mn40yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse &#8216;Bam&#8217; Rodriguez stopped Antonio Vargas with a sixth-round technical knockout to become a three-weight world champion. Rodriguez knocked down fellow American Vargas, who was defending the WBA bantamweight title at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, in the fourth round and landed a powerful left in the sixth before the bout was stopped. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30970,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30968\/revisions\/30970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}