![]() At tonight’s card, he’ll have at least one interested observer considering whether the young middleweight will be a grandmaster of the ring. Rodriguez has yet to sign with a promoter. It’s basically the same thing, but you’re not hurting anyone.” You’ve got to set them up for that knockout. You’ve got to be a move ahead of your opponent. I went to high school and I just kept playing. Even days I didn’t want to play, we played. ![]() “I bought a board, and I used to play my dad everyday. “I was in middle school, and I remember they had a little tournament in seventh grade. I loved it.”Īnd boxing meshes well with his other competitive outlet – chess. A friend of my brother introduced me to boxing. “But when I came over here, we couldn’t play all season because of the winter. Our first sport is baseball,” Rodriguez said. “I came from the Dominican Republican in 1998. Not bad for someone who had preferred America’s Pastime to the Sweet Science before he arrived in the United States. In seven fights, Rodriguez has seven victories, five of which have ended in knockouts. “It was something I was thinking about for quite a bit. Witnessing my son almost die a couple times, my body was there, but my mind wasn’t. For the second qualifier I was actually trying to work out, trying to juggle going to the gym and seeing the babies. “The day I was supposed to go for the first qualifier, they were born, so I had to cancel it and stay by my wife’s side, and I’m happy I did that. “I thought I was going to be an Olympian, but it didn’t work out that way,” Rodriguez said. He had his sights set on making the national team and fighting in 2008 in China. And yet we were so worried because they were coming home with oxygen.”īefore, Rodriguez was an amateur middleweight who had won the 2005 USA Boxing national championship and the 2006 Golden Gloves national championship. We took them home, and we were so excited. ![]() ![]() She was always crying every time she was at home without the kids. “At the time we didn’t really feel like parents, because they weren’t home with us,” he said. We stayed in the hospital for about four, five months when they were born. “One day they were doing good, and the next day I watched my son pretty much die, and they brought him back a couple of times. “It was a really tough time, ” Rodriguez, 23, of Worcester, Mass., said earlier this week. ![]()
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