Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez has accepted a fight with Gervonta Davis that would require him to move up four weight classes.
Rodriguez holds the WBA bantamweight title at 118 pounds. Davis has campaigned as high as 140 and would likely want the fight at lightweight, 17 pounds and four divisions above where Rodriguez currently fights.
Trainer Robert Garcia told Sean Zittel that the approach came privately and that Rodriguez said yes without hesitation.
Tank Davis sent him a private message challenging him and Bam was like, “yeah, let’s do it.” Bam is not afraid of nobody, Bam knows that he can compete against anybody.
Davis has not won a fight since June 2024. He drew with Lamont Roach Jr. in March 2025 in his only outing since, and was stripped of the WBA lightweight title for inactivity brought on by legal issues. That belt is now vacant, with Floyd Schofield and Lucas Bahdi due to contest it in October. Davis has also been linked with a super-lightweight rematch against Isaac Cruz.
Rodriguez has a bigger fight in front of him regardless. He is expected to face Naoya Inoue in Japan in February or March next year.
