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BREAKING: Rungvisai Out With COVID, Carlos Cuadras To Face Unheralded Jesse Rodriguez For WBC Title


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We're seeing a LOT of fighters get COVID, and since most all of them would have needed to get jabbed in order to even travel overseas, it means that the spread isn't being mitigated. That means that fights that get scheduled are up in the air as omicron remains a thing.
This one really bothered me, because I'm a big Rungvisai fan, and seeing this fight would have closed some open doors with the history between these two.
Rodriguez was going to fight for a regional title against Fernando Diaz on the undercard. Nothing yet about that fight, and while I suspect Rodriguez will come hard against Cuadras, I don't find him anywhere near Cuadras' class as a boxer. That said, late replacements do always seem to give the A-Side problems since there was no way to prepare - so who knows really.
Between this and the possibility of Choco getting upset by his late replacement, we might be shaking up super flyweight.
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