Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez dethrones ‘Gallo Estrada’; knocks him out in 7 rounds

Jesse Bam Rodriguez was a revelation when he arrived within the tremendous flyweight class. He shocked all those that have been engaged in a collective battle for supremacy and swept them away with the authority of somebody who had been ready patiently to assert what he sensed may very well be his. Final evening he proved it and knocked out Mexican champion Juan Francisco Gallo Estrada within the seventh inning at a night occasion on the Footprint Middle in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nobody had knocked out the Sonoran, a high quality 34-year-old fighter with an extended historical past among the many greatest in tremendous flyweight. However this younger 24-year-old Mexican-American with a childlike face arrived to destroy him within the basic Mexican boxing means: a hook to the liver that collapsed the person from Puerto Peñasco.

It was recognized beforehand that the take a look at for Estrada was very harmful. Bam He was the clear favourite in opposition to a fighter who needed to take a 12 months and a half break attributable to a hand harm. From the beginning he outclassed the Gallooverwhelmed him with the velocity and great thing about a high quality and dizzying, tireless boxing. Mixtures that got here out like gusts and a left hand that harm the Sonoran on a regular basis.

Gallo He needed to battle a big a part of the battle together with his again on the ropes in opposition to the overwhelming assault. Within the fourth spherical he fell to the canvas after a left uppercut and within the fifth he gave the impression to be annihilated. Even so, he overcame within the sixth and despatched the Bam to the bottom with a proper hook to the jaw.

It was simply the set off that he was ready for. Bam to hunt to destroy the Gallo as soon as and for all and ended up stabbing him within the liver. Estrada was contorted in a knot of ache that confirmed how deadly that blow that Mexican fighters made well-known was. Now, a rematch is on the horizon to regain the throne or declare a brand new period.