Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez has made great strides up boxing’s pound-for-pound list this week.

The youngest world champion in the sport crowned himself a king once again on Saturday night as he knocked out Juan Estrada to claim the WBC super-flyweight crown.

Bam is taking boxing by stormCredit: Amanda Westcott/Matchroom

Rodriguez was already champion at flyweight and super-flyweight in previous years as he interchanged between the two divisions.

Now, the 24-year-old has earned his best win to date on his return to 115lbs.

It didn’t all go his own way though.

Bam started well in the fight and put Estrada down with a magnificent combination in the fourth.

However, he then got caught himself in round six and experienced a knockdown of his own for the first time in his career.

Thankfully for the youngster he was not badly hurt.

And in the very next round, Rodriguez found the perfect body shot to flatten Estrada and leave him rolling around on the canvas, unable to beat the count.

As a result, Bam was expected to rocket up the pound-for-pound rankings after his win over a modern great in Estrada who was also a unified flyweight world champion in the past.

Rodriguez got up off the canvas to KO EstradaCredit: Melina Pizano/Matchroom

And this is exactly what has happened as Ring Magazine updated their listings on Tuesday.

The starlet was already ranked as the ninth best boxer in the sport by Ring, but has now cracked the top five.

Ring’s Editor-In-Chief Douglass Fischer said after the fight: “Something tells me Bam is going to get more than a one spot jump forward in the Ring’s pound-for-pound rankings.”

Fans also reacted similarly when responding to a tweet asking where Rodriguez deserves to be placed in the new rankings.

“Probably top five,” one fan answered.

A second agreed: “Top five – Terence Crawford, Naoya Inoue, Oleksandr Usyk, Gervonta Davis, Bam Rodriguez.”

And a third fan said: “I’ve got him fourth or fifth, but he is on a collision course with Junto Nakatani at 118lbs eventually and that will be a hell of a fight.”

While another added: “Judging on straight talent/eye test? Third. And he’s still improving at a fast pace despite already being a fantastic technical boxer with great physical and athletic gifts. Add in body of work and he’s between fourth to sixth, but I think he’ll be first at some point. He’s awesome.”

In the new list, Oleksandr Usyk remains pound-for-pound king, with Naoya Inoue still number two and Terence Crawford still number three.

Canelo Alvarez remains in fourth spot, while Rodriguez has leapt up to fifth.

This means that Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol have both been demoted one place to sixth and seventh respectively.

Gervonta Davis is still number eight, while inactive Errol Spence has fallen two places to number nine.

Junto Nakatani remains tenth.