Now comes the hard part for Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez.
The junior bantamweight champion from San Antonio was not well known when he stunned the boxing world by beating Carlos Cuadras and knocking out Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in back-to-back fights this year.
Now Rodriguez is where Cuadras and Sor Rungvisai were, at the top of the 115-pound division. And like them, he now has a target on his back.
That new dynamic begins on Saturday’s Canelo Alvarez-Gennadiy Golovkin undercard in Las Vegas, where he will defend his belt against Israel Gonzalez.
“Of course, being a world champion is what everyone wants,” Rodriguez told Boxing…
