Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez made a big move in the lower weight classes. Super flyweight No. 1 Boxing News Ranking. Accustomed to bouncing between weight classes, Bam was the flyweight champion and stopped Sonny Edwards before dethroning Juan Francisco Estrada in dramatic fashion. Rodriguez, who stopped the Mexican with a body shot in the seventh round, picked up the pace. of his pound-for-pound march.
With the loss, Estrada dropped to third on the 115-pound top 10 list after Argentina's Fernando Daniel Martinez defeated current No. 4 ranked Ioka Kazuto by wide decision in a close 12-round bout.
The Japanese suffered a double disappointment this month when Kohei Tanaka's planned title defence against Jonathan Rodriguez was called off after the Mexican came in well over the weight limit of eight stone three pounds, leaving Tanaka in fifth place.
Japan's Kohei Tanaka (left) fights against Puerto Rico's Jonathan Gonzalez (right) in the WBO flyweight boxing title match in Nagoya on August 24, 2019. (Photo by Jiji Press/Jiji Press/AFP)/Japan is out (Photo by Jiji Press/AFP via Getty Images)
Carlos Cuadras beat Australia's Andrew Moloney on the undercard of the Lomachenko-Kambosos fight and has dropped to seventh due to inactivity, despite a win over sixth-ranked Pedro Guevara.
David Jimenez is ranked No. 8. The Costa Rican won the interim WBA title with a major win over John “Scrappy” Ramirez in April.
Sisaket Sor Rungvisai is still clinging on to ninth place despite fighting unremarkable six- and eight-round bouts in Thailand. Sisaket's weight has also been controversial, and he hasn't officially reached 115 pounds since his loss to world number one Rodrigues in 2022. Relatively unknown South African Ricardo Malajika has slipped into tenth place. Malajika holds the IBO title and was last seen beating Marcel Braithwaite.
