Rodriguez Flattened Martinez to Add Another Super Flyweight
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez knocked out Fernando Martinez at 1:25 of the tenth round on November 22, 2025, at ANB Arena in Riyadh. The super flyweight unification victory added the WBA championship to Rodriguez’s WBC and WBO belts after a commanding performance.
Two unbeaten champions met with three major belts involved
Rodriguez entered as the WBC and WBO champion, while Argentina’s Martinez held the WBA title. The matchup offered a major consolidation of the 115-pound division beneath the card’s light heavyweight main event.
Martinez attempted to disrupt Rodriguez with his right hand and forward attacks. Rodriguez answered with quicker combinations, accurate body punches and changes of angle that repeatedly opened the champion’s defense.
Accuracy and varied punching widened the advantage
Rodriguez found uppercuts and left hands while Martinez struggled to sustain effective offense. A bloodied nose added to the challenger’s difficulties as the rounds accumulated.
The official WBA scoring analysis shows that all three judges gave Rodriguez seven of the first nine rounds unanimously. The second and eighth were the only completed rounds in which their assessments differed.
A counter left settled the contest before the scorecards were needed
In the tenth, Rodriguez avoided a right hand and landed the left that sent Martinez flat onto his back. Martinez tried to rise but could not beat referee Edward Collantes’s count.
Rodriguez improved to 23–0 with sixteen knockouts, while Martinez suffered his first professional defeat and fell to 18–1. The finish left Rodriguez holding three major super flyweight championships after a bout defined by precision and sustained offensive variety.
Sources
- WBC: unification stakes, knockout and records
- WBA: official scoring analysis
- The Ring: punching variety and championship performance
