August twelfth @ the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD airing live on Showtime. The vacant IBF world bantamweight title will be at stake. Rodríguez and López are the IBF's highest rated contenders at #2 and #3 respectively (the #1 spot is vacant). A tad overshadowed by the rest of this Saturday's offerings (the British card on DAZN, and Navarrete vs. Valdez on ESPN) this isn't too shabby a card from the bottom up. The main event should be reasonably fun, but stap me if they both don't have some of the most boring nicknames in boxing. Emmanuel "Manny" Rodríguez and Melvin "Melo" López - are you ****ing kidding me?
Man Rod w/ the Ram Rod. Crazy good fighter. That beating he put on a Russell brother was awesome. He could be the Bantamweight King when the smoke clears.