When Rodriguez visited Demek “Joey” Edmonds at the Worcester Boys & Girls Club last week, he felt a bit envious of the amateur heavyweight who will try next week to become the first Worcester boxer to win the National Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions since Rodriguez did as a middleweight in 2006. He’d love to fight Oleksandr Guozdyk (17-0, 14 KOs), who dethroned Adonis Stevenson as WBC light heavyweight champion by knocking him out in the 11th round in December. “I’m basically high risk, low reward right now,” he said. With a 31-2 record, Rodriguez believes many of the better fighters don’t want to risk losing to him so he’s forced to fight less known opponents to stay sharp.
I want another opportunity to fight for a title.” But it’s not what I really signed up for. and Serena, and his 6-year-old son Evan, but he would like to resume training outside Houston soon, and he hopes to fight in July or August. Rodriguez is spending time in Worcester with his 12-year-old twins, Edwin Jr. So he’s waiting to see what boxing promoter and manager Al Haymon can arrange for him. But while beating Williams earned Rodriguez a few bucks, it didn’t help him in his quest to fight for a title. To keep busy, Rodriguez agreed to fight Mitch Williams on March 2 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and he scored another unanimous 10-round decision. Three weeks before the fight, however, Fonfara announced his retirement from boxing at age 31, issuing a statement that said he had lost his enthusiasm for the sport.
If Rodriguez won, he was basically guaranteed a title shot in his next fight. Rodriguez was going to move up to cruiserweight to fight former UBO light heavyweight champion Andrzej Fonfara (30-5, 18 KOs) on March 9 on Fox television. Rodriguez had rotator cuff surgery in May 2018 at Boston Sports & Shoulders in New England Baptist. 17, 2018, and earned a unanimous, 10-round decision even though he injured his right shoulder in the fourth round and fought left-handed thereafter. So instead, Rodriguez fought the less heralded Lionell Thompson on Feb. Dawson hasn’t announced his retirement, but he hasn’t fought since. In December 2017, he was supposed to fight former WBC, IBF and IBO world lightweight champion Chad Dawson, but Dawson pulled out the week of the fight. The 6-foot-1 Rodriguez didn’t fight again until July 2017 when he scored a second-round TKO over Melvin Russell. on April 30, 2016, he underwent knee surgery at UMass Memorial Medical Center to repair a completely torn ACL and a partially torn meniscus that had been bothering him for years. Two months after Rodriguez was knocked out in the second round by Thomas Williams Jr. Rodriguez owns a glitzy 31-2 record with 20 knockouts, and he has won his last three bouts, but his career has been derailed the past three years by injuries and his opponents pulling out of fights.
“I feel like I have already paid my dues, and I think I deserve a good fight to showcase myself. “I’m really tired of just waiting around for a good fight,” he said this week during a visit to the Worcester Boys & Girls Club. The Worcester light heavyweight admits he has becoming frustrated with the sport he has loved for most of his life.
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WORCESTER - Edwin Rodriguez turns 34 Sunday, and he figures he has only two, maybe three more years remaining before he retires from professional boxing.
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