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Rodriguez Knocks Out Vargas to Become World Champion in Third Weight Class

Rodriguez scored a fourth-round knockdown and landed 81 of 213 punches to seize the belt and improve to 24-0, officials said.

June 14 : Undefeated Jesse Rodriguez stopped fellow American Antonio Vargas in the sixth round to become the WBA bantamweight world champion, capturing a title in a third weight division after the flyweight and super flyweight divisions.Rodriguez distracted his opponent with a body shot and a looping right ha

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During the first two episodes of the contest, Vargas managed to contain the approaches of his rival, but Jesse Rodriguez resolved

The American Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez (24-0, 17 KO) became last night a third-class world champion, the WBA cockweight, by beating Antonio Vargas in the Desert Diamond Arena of Glendale (Arizona). One of the greats of all the weights, showed his strength defeating KO in the sixth round of a fellow courier who fought from the beginning until the destructive “bambas” arrived. Antonio Vargas (19-2-1, 11 KO), WBA champion and American Olympic pugile, s…

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