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WBC Super-Flyweight title on the line in Phoenix
Eddie Hearn
“Welcome to Phoenix, what a fantastic fight card, for me one of the fights of the year so far as Jesse Rodriguez challenges Juan Francisco Estrada for the WBC World and Ring Magazine Super-Flyweight titles. It’s hot out here in Phoenix, and we have a huge crowd expected on Saturday – and an important announcement as well, we have decided in the last 24 hours to give everybody in the Footprint Center on Saturday free air conditioning, so there’s an even better excuse to come. “We’re expecting 10,000 in the Footprint Center on Saturday and then there’s the big game on Sunday for Mexico as well, and the big fight nights keep coming on DAZN.”
Juan Francisco Estrada
“We’re completely ready for this fight, both physically and mentally, and going into this fight I believe that I am 100 per cent ready for this challenge. In my boxing career I’ve had 47 fights, some of them have been really tough, and I believe this fight will be another one of those tough fights, but I’m totally ready to win convincingly on Saturday night.
“I’m going to go out all-action from the first round like I always do but in an intelligent way, that will be my plan when I go into the fight. My plan is to go and show, as he says I’m finished, I’m old, my aim is to show that is not correct.
“It’s going to be a really good weekend for all the people, particularly the Mexican people. God willing, we get the victory on Saturday, because it will be mich better for Mexico. We just wan t to go in there and show that El Gallo Estrada has still got big things to do int the sport.”
Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez
“I might not show it, but this is the most excited I’ve been for a fight my whole career. I know what is at stake and what this win can do, not only for my career but for my life. My newborn, it would open a lot of doors for her, and a lot of doors for my career, this is what it’s all about. This is the fight that I’ve been wanting for a while, now that I have it I gave it my all in training and come Saturday night that’s going to show.
“This is the biggest fight I have ever been in, not only skill wise but crowd wise, there will be a lot of Mexican fans rooting for him, but I will feed off of that negative energy towards me. So I am ready to go, I just can’t wait to step inside that ring.
“It’s just a matter of getting in there and it actually unfolding. I do believe it could start a little technical but once I figure him out, it’s a wrap.
“I feel like I have the skills to stop anybody that I am put in the ring with, so on Saturday night I will prove everyone wrong once again.”
Jose Alfredo Caballero
“We have prepared really well for this, we have complete confidence that we’re going to get the victory this weekend. We’ve been studying Bam intensely and I can’t see any parameters by which he will beat ‘El Gallo’ Estrada.
“I think that the fighters that he’s faced previously like Rungvisai, he was almost finished when he fought him, the same goes for Cuadras, and I think Saturday will be the real acid test for Bam Rodriguez. It’s nothing personal, I just don’t see him being able to beat Estrada on Saturday.”
Robert Garcia Jr
“This is all Bam wants. He’s been saying this since he won his first World title against Cuadras that he only wants the biggest and toughest fights, and this is probably the toughest one he could have got and it’s the one he chose.
“El Gallo is a legend in the smaller weight classes and one of the greatest fighters that Mexico has produced in those weight classes, one of the four kings in the Super-Flyweight division. So you have to respect what he has accomplished in the sport, but I think on Saturday night, Bam is going to show that it’s his time now.
“The better the competition, the better Bam performs. He has more motivation in training camp and that’s why he chooses to take the biggest fights, he’s not going to wake up every morning with the same motivation if the guy in front of him isn’t the best guy he could have got so I think on Saturday night, everyone is going to see a whole other level to Bam. He’s also only 24 years old, and people forget that he became champ at such a young age, he’s not near his physical prime yet.”
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