Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez beat Fernando “Pumita” Martinez inside the distance on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the ANB Arena in Riyadh, and added Martinez’s WBA junior bantamweight title to his WBC and WBO belts. The fight is over, ESPN’s reporting since has no rematch in it, and this page is the record of it.
Rodriguez went in at 22-0 with 15 knockouts and came out 23-0 with 16. Martinez, from Buenos Aires, had been 18-0 with 9 knockouts and had made four defenses of the WBA title.
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The fight
| Detail | Rodriguez vs. Martinez |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, November 22, 2025 |
| Venue | ANB Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Titles | WBA, WBC and WBO junior bantamweight |
| Rodriguez before | 22-0, 15 KOs, age 25 |
| Martinez before | 18-0, 9 KOs, age 34 |
| Result | Rodriguez won by stoppage |
| Broadcast | DAZN pay-per-view |
The same card had David Benavidez against Anthony Yarde for the WBC light heavyweight title and Brian Norman against Devin Haney at welterweight. Before the fight, Rodriguez told ESPN he planned two fights at most at 115 pounds, this one and one for the last belt, before moving up.
What Rodriguez did next
He did not wait for the fourth belt. His next fight was in June 2026 in Glendale, Arizona, where he knocked out Antonio Vargas in the sixth round, after dropping him in the fourth, to win the WBA bantamweight title in his debut at 118 pounds. It made him a world champion in a third weight class and took his record to 24-0 with 17 knockouts.
That was his sixth straight stoppage. The five before Vargas, as ESPN listed them in April 2026, were Sunny Edwards, Juan Francisco Estrada, Pedro Guevara, Phumelele Cafu and Martinez.
Who holds the other belt
The IBF junior bantamweight title Rodriguez did not win in Riyadh was held by Willibaldo Garcia going into a December 25, 2025, defense against Kenshiro Teraji. Andrew Moloney won the IBF title in June 2026, and ESPN reported that he wants a fight with Rodriguez for the undisputed championship.
After the Vargas win, ESPN wrote that a superfight with Naoya Inoue could be next. No date or opponent for Rodriguez’s next fight has been announced in ESPN’s reporting as of September 25, 2026.
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