Comments Thread For: Emmanuel Rodriguez, Two-Time IBF Bantamweight Titlist, Announces Retirement At 31

[Regge]

Rodriguez was just getting into his groove shocked by the retirement but like another poster said must be something personal going on.

[JD88]

Maybe he now realizes that his manager is his promoter which is making more money than the boxer????

[Elheath]

Despite getting KO'ed early, R1 of the fight with Inoue was one of the better rounds in general I saw from the opponent and I thought out of the current bantam guys he will be the one to beat so this is quite a surprise. Oh well, I guess it is time for me to root for Junto Nakatani to jump up to 118 to challenge for undisputed there.

I wonder if they are just going to have an eliminator for the vacant IBF between the next two. Also, whatever happened to Fulton? Still prepping for his next fight at 126?

[STREET CLEANER]

Last fight he showed a lot of skills and how sharp he is. Too bad because I wanted to see him fight again. He looked like he had a lot more milage left in him.

[Boxing2695]

That is surprising but sometimes guys wanna go out when they feel like it's time and don't wanna carry on if they ain't got the love for it like they had because the camps and the weight cutting is as hard as the fight itself. and he managed to retire as a world champion and goes out on a championship win so good for him he's been a solid world level fighter

[BenjaminLinus]

This is just a theory...

But ManRod is a big 118 pounder. I think he retired because he knew he needs to move up to 122, but he won't be able to get a belt because Inoue's about to become Undisputed in December. And he just doesn't want that beating again.

[Malvado]

One of the best at bantamweight, sad to see him go now that there is more opposition for him.

hope things go well for him.

[RuleOfTheSpear]

easiest scalp on inoue's record
thanks man

[Juan-Rambo]

Fair well champ and good journey, forever a champion!!!

[Boricua181]

He's retiring while on his best run, I just can't see his decision to retire holding up for very long.
Chances are that he'll be making a come back sometime in 2024, I really thought that he was going to start to build a decent championship reign.
There must be something going on behind the scene's in his personal life, that has been the driving force behind his decision to quit.