On a weekend filled with boxing highs and lows, Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez stole the show, becoming the first to stop Pedro Guevara with an explosive performance that saw him retain his WBC World Super-Flyweight Title.

In a week where boxing was one of the most talked about sports in the media for all the wrong reasons, it clawed its reputation back on Saturday night with some thrilling action both in the UK and US.

A perfect night of boxing which, in this day and age, is something of a rarity. However, this Saturday night we get just that with a domestic 50/50 for British and Commonwealth honours in Barnsley, and then what is undoubtedly the card of the year across the pond in Los Angeles.

What a first half of the year it has been in terms of thrilling, intriguing and epic boxing contests, with the likes of Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk, Devin Haney vs Ryan Garcia, Artur Beterbiev vs Callum Smith and Naoya Inoue vs Luis Nery all living up to the pre-fight hype.