Comments Thread For: Epic Action: Bam Rodriguez-Roman Gonzalez Sparring a Sight to Behold

[Elheath]

Don’t forget signing with Top Rank. Once that happened you knew he was never going to fight any of those guys.

That the best Top Rank could provide to fight Inoue on the Chocolatito-SSR II card being Nieves certainly was a bummer. Too bad Estrada who was the WBO mandatory challenger and Inoue wanted to fight declined to challenge for the belt and instead go chase WBC and fought Cuadras instead was also a sad scenario. Had Chocolatito won the rematch and Estrada taken the WBO title fight during the Chocolatito-SSR II, there would've been a potential for Inoue having fought Estrada on defense then Chocolatito for an unification prior to moving up to Bantamweight.

Granted though in hindsight given where the current state of all the promotors are, makes me wonder where would've been the best to sign back then? PBC would've been a disaster given their loooooooooooong hiatus and once-a-year fighting pattern, Golden Boy doesn't exactly scream greatness, Eddie and Warren in UK won't really have helped...

[ShoulderRoll]

That the best Top Rank could provide to fight Inoue on the Chocolatito-SSR II card being Nieves certainly was a bummer. Too bad Estrada who was the WBO mandatory challenger and Inoue wanted to fight declined to challenge for the belt and instead go chase WBC and fought Cuadras instead was also a sad scenario. Had Chocolatito won the rematch and Estrada taken the WBO title fight during the Chocolatito-SSR II, there would've been a potential for Inoue having fought Estrada on defense then Chocolatito for an unification prior to moving up to Bantamweight.

Granted though in hindsight given where the current state of all the promotors are, makes me wonder where would've been the best to sign back then? PBC would've been a disaster given their loooooooooooong hiatus and once-a-year fighting pattern, Golden Boy doesn't exactly scream greatness, Eddie and Warren in UK won't really have helped...

“Super fly” was the in-thing back then. Inoue should have gotten into that mix instead of bypassing every single one of them.

Now years later here is Bam about to face his third of that quartet. And he’s not the A-side either, he simply found a way to get it done.

[Elheath]

“Super fly” was the in-thing back then. Inoue should have gotten into that mix instead of bypassing every single one of them.

Now years later here is Bam about to face his third of that quartet. And he’s not the A-side either, he simply found a way to get it done.

Yeah, like seven years later when most of them are now former champions or half retired or fights once a year they finally decide to take on who they thought was easy target and it backfired on Cuadras and SSR. Estrada also finally decides to get off the sofa as well after over 1.5 years when he finally realizes he ain't getting a Choco IV paycheck.

Inoue tried his best he can afford at the time to join the Superfly party. As the number one ranked guy in the division, he offered a title fight with Choco when he came up to Superfly (but Choco decided to go for WBC Cuadras instead), showed up to Cuadras-Chocolatito title match and made a direct offer for a unification match to the winner Chololatito (and Choco decided to fight SSR in a defense instead of a unification and lost anyway), made his US debut under the rematch Choco-SSR II card (with an agreement to fight Choco if he won...but of course he loses again and goes semi-retired for a while) and on the card tried to fight his mandatory challenger Estrada but Estrada refused the title shot and instead decided he'd rather do a mandatory eliminator fight against Cuadras to become a mandatory challenger against SSR (which he lost against anyway) so ended up with Nieves. And to add on, a last ditch attempt to unify against Ancajas before he went up gets rejected so he gave up on superfly and just went up to bantamweight for the WBSS.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Yeah, like seven years later when most of them are now former champions or half retired or fights once a year they finally decide to take on who they thought was easy target and it backfired on Cuadras and SSR. Estrada also finally decides to get off the sofa as well after over 1.5 years when he finally realizes he ain't getting a Choco IV paycheck.

Inoue tried his best he can afford at the time to join the Superfly party. As the number one ranked guy in the division, he offered a title fight with Choco when he came up to Superfly (but Choco decided to go for WBC Cuadras instead), showed up to Cuadras-Chocolatito title match and made a direct offer for a unification match to the winner Chololatito (and Choco decided to fight SSR in a defense instead of a unification and lost anyway), made his US debut under the rematch Choco-SSR II card (with an agreement to fight Choco if he won...but of course he loses again and goes semi-retired for a while) and on the card tried to fight his mandatory challenger Estrada but Estrada refused the title shot and instead decided he'd rather do a mandatory eliminator fight against Cuadras to become a mandatory challenger against SSR (which he lost against anyway) so ended up with Nieves. And to add on, a last ditch attempt to unify against Ancajas before he went up gets rejected so he gave up on superfly and just went up to bantamweight for the WBSS.

Hey, what are you doing bringing historical fact into the "pretend Inoue ducked" narrative?

[boxingitis]

Cuadras was still good enough to beat Pedro Guevara last year, and Guevara just upset Jason Moloney.

Sor Rungvisai was the #2 ranked contender in the division behind champion and #1 Estrada and Chocolatito when Bam beat him.

Edwards was a reigning champion and the #1 ranked fighter in the division when Bam beat him.

Estrada is the reigning lineal, TBRB, Ring, and WBC world champion. There isn't a better win Bam could get at super flyweight right now if he's able to topple him.

Estrada has been getting old, and how long has he been inactive?