Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez is open to preventing Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez for the proper cash. if the struggle occurs, it will be one other older nice that the 24-year-old ‘Bam’ Rodriguez (20-0, 13 KOs) might add to his resume.
If ‘Bam’ Rodriguez loses this struggle to Roman Gonzalez, it will be a crushing blow to his profession, proving that he was by no means pretty much as good as folks thought. Bam appeared poor in opposition to Israel Gonzalez, the final gifted youthful fighter he fought earlier than shifting on to Sunny Edwards and Juan Francisco Estrada.
It doesn’t show that Bam would have overwhelmed any of them of their primes, but it surely’s good for his profession and pocketbook to beat the older lions like Chocolatito earlier than he retires.
“Something can occur; we’re in the identical promoter; it is determined by a negotiation; in the event that they pay me effectively, I’ll face Bam and go all out, “I nonetheless have good cartridges left,” mentioned Chocolatito Gonzalez to Levin Luna, on his tentative curiosity in preventing Jesse Rodriguez.
Rodriguez is coming off a seventh-round knockout win over boxing nice Juan Francisco Estrada on June twenty ninth in Phoenix, Arizona.
The 34-year-old Estrada hadn’t fought in two years and appeared to have visibly aged since his final outing in opposition to Chocolatito on December third, 2022. He appeared poor and previous it in that struggle, and the judges gave him a controversial twelve-round determination that he by no means appeared to deserve.
The 37-year-old former four-division world champion ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez (51-4, 41 KOs) is taking a tune-up this Friday, July twelfth, in opposition to Colombian journeyman Rober Barrera (27-5, 17 KOs) in a ten-round contest on the Polideportivo Alexis Argüello in Managua, Nicaragua.
It is a struggle to get the cobwebs off Chocolatito’s sport, as he hasn’t fought since his loss to Juan Estrada in 2022 and is probably going ring rusty. It’s unclear what Roman Gonzalez’s finish sport is for returning to the ring after two years. When a fighter as outdated as Chocolatito sits out for that lengthy, one questions their motivation for the game.
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