You won’t find many people in the industry who have anything negative to say about Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez.

The few fighters that have gone that route naturally become a future target for the unbeaten Texan.

All of Rodriguez’s energy is squarely placed on his upcoming vacant WBO flyweight title fight versus Cristian Gonzalez. The 23-year-old former WBC junior bantamweight champ moves down in weight, where is a heavy favorite to prevail in the DAZN headliner this Saturday from Boeing Center at Tech Port in his San Antonio hometown.

While not looking past this weekend, Rodriguez and his team can at least consider future options. Making his way to that list is lineal junior bantamweight champion Juan Francisco ‘El Gallo’ Estrada (44-3, 28KOs), who holds the WBC belt that Rodriguez won last February and twice defended before vacating to campaign—at least for the moment—at flyweight.

“I know Estrada had a few words to say about me,” Rodriguez told BoxingScene.com of the two-division champ and reigning 115-pound king. “I definitely wouldn’t mind getting him in the ring to see if he can back those words up and prove what he was saying.”

The comments to which Rodriguez (17-0, 11KOs) refers stem from a recent interview with YouTube channel El Boxglero. Estrada took exception to the claim that the 23-year-old is unbeatable, pointing to his most recent win—a twelve-round, unanimous decision over three-time title challenger Israel ‘Jiga’ Gonzalez last September 17 in Las Vegas—as proof that there are elements to his game that can be exploited by the right fighter.

“Look, what I saw in his last fight is the fighter he really is. We saw against ‘Jiga’ Gonzalez… he is not this great fighter they make him out to be. He is portrayed as a monster but he is not how they portray him.”

Rodriguez's ‘humanizing’ win over Gonzalez came just two weeks after Estrada was given all that he could handle in a narrow win over countryman Argi Cortes last September 3 in his hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico. The fight ended an eighteen-month inactive stretch for Estrada, who spent much of that time negotiating—and eventually walking away from—an ordered WBA title consolidation bout with Joshua Franco, Rodriguez’s older brother.

Franco was upgraded to full WBA titlist by default, though Estrada went on to beat Cortes and then Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez three months later in their rubber match. Rodriguez was ringside for the event, though just as a fan and not as a scout as his mind was on next fighting at flyweight, where he meets Mexico’s Gonzalez (15-1, 6KOs) this weekend.

Depending on how the night goes and how he feels at the new weight, Rodriguez plans to keep his options open. Eddie Hearn—who co-promotes Rodriguez along with Mr. Honda’s Teiken Promotions—previously called for a flyweight tournament to crown an undisputed champ. Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing recently signed IBF champ Sunny Edwards and also promotes WBC champ Julio Cesar Martinez.

“A fight with Estrada with perfect. A fight with Sunny Edwards is up there as just as big a fight to me,” noted Rodriguez. A fight with Martinez as well. Those are the three champions I really want to face.

“But I leave that up to Robert [Garcia, Rodriguez’s career long trainer] and to Eddie. This camp has already showed, I can fight at 112 if that’s where we’re going to stay. I’m ready if they decide that I’m going back to 115. I just want to fight the other champions at either of those weights.

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox