{"id":17388,"date":"2025-07-20T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/bam-rodriguez-unifies-titles-knocks-out-cafu-in-10-rounds-consolidates-dominance\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:30:08","slug":"bam-rodriguez-unifies-titles-knocks-out-cafu-in-10-rounds-consolidates-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/boxing\/bam-rodriguez-unifies-titles-knocks-out-cafu-in-10-rounds-consolidates-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bam Rodr\u00edguez Unifies Titles: Knocks Out Cafu in 10 Rounds, Consolidates Dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez Unifies World Title in TKO Victory<\/h2>\n\nThe undefeated two-division champion, Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez, added a second belt to his collection at 115 pounds, after defeating Phumelela Cafu by technical knockout in the tenth round, Saturday night in Frisco, Texas, in his unification fight for the super flyweight title.\n\nRodriguez, who held the WBC title, added Cafu&#8217;s WBO belt to his record. In the tenth round, Rodriguez hit Cafu with a furious combination, forcing the corner of the then undefeated Cafu to throw in the towel at 2 minutes and 7 seconds.\n\nI felt it was a good performance. Probably my best performance to date, against my toughest opponent, my toughest fight yet. Cafu was much tougher than I thought he would be, but we got the job done no matter what. &#8220;Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez&#8221;\n\nRodriguez surpassed Cafu in total strikes with 218-144, achieving his third consecutive knockout victory. He acknowledged Cafu for taking the fight to the limit on Saturday night.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0720%2Fr1521226_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez a\u00f1adi\u00f3 un segundo cintur\u00f3n de las 115 libras el s\u00e1bado por la noche, arrebat\u00e1ndole el t\u00edtulo de la OMB a Phumelela Cafu con una victoria por TKO en el d\u00e9cimo asalto. Foto de Melina Pizano\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nRodriguez (22-0), who is ranked number 6 in the pound-for-pound rankings worldwide, made the second defense of his WBC title, which he won with an exciting knockout victory over Juan Francisco Estrada in June 2024. Rodriguez is in line to face Fernando Martinez for the WBA title.\n\nCafu (11-1-3), who fought in the United States for the first time, won the WBO belt in his last outing in October 2024, after defeating Kosei Tanaka in Japan.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez Unifies World Title in TKO Victory The undefeated two-division champion, Jesse &#8220;Bam&#8221; Rodriguez, added a second belt to his collection at 115 pounds, after defeating Phumelela Cafu by technical knockout in the tenth round, Saturday night in Frisco, Texas, in his unification fight for the super flyweight title. Rodriguez, who held the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[205,6021,6047,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-17388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-boxing","7":"tag-boxing","8":"tag-jesse-rodriguez","9":"tag-junior-bantamweight","10":"tag-tko"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}