FRISCO, Texas – San Antonio’s own Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez’s next fight is slated for the summer.
The current WBC junior bantamweight titleholder and two-division champion will fight Phumelele Cafu on July 19 at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas, on DAZN.
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Rodriguez posted the flyer for the fight on his X account earlier on Wednesday.
Rodriguez (21-0 with 14 KOs) will look to retain his title against Cafu (11-0-3 with 8 KOs), who currently holds South Africa’s WBO flyweight title.
In his last fight, Rodriguez quickly defeated Mexico’s Pedro Guevara with a third-round stoppage on Nov. 9 to retain his WBC junior bantamweight title.
Nick Mantas is an award-winning sports reporter who joined the KPRC 2 Sports Team in September of 2025, coming from channel 2's sister station, KSAT in San Antonio. Before reporting on the San Antonio Spurs for two years, he spent three years in Lansing, Michigan, and one year in Abilene, Texas. He's Greek & a native of Brookline, Massachusetts.