Another win for Daddy!

This is what they are talking about in the article. His opponent came forward and Daddy landed a hook/upper cut and knocked him to the canvas. See him getting ready to throw that power punch?



(Pictures of S&E below article)

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Local scores another TKO

Rodriguez goes to 2-0 as a pro

By Bud Barth TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
hbarth@telegram.com

BOSTON— At Thursday’s weigh-in, Fitzgerald Johnson tried to intimidate Worcester’s Edwin Rodriguez with an evil stare-down.

In the end, though, it was Rodriguez who did the staring down — at Johnson on the ring floor.

Rodriguez knocked down the game Johnson four times before finally putting him to rest with a giant right hand at 2:47 of the fourth and final round, scoring his second straight TKO as a pro before about 700 fans last night at The Castle at Park Plaza.


Johnson (1-3, 1 KO) came in with the reputation as something of a psycho, which perhaps explained his strange weigh-in behavior, which obviously was an attempt to rattle Rodriguez.

“I stared at him back and told him it was on, he better be ready,” said Rodriguez, now 2-0. “He was ready, but he wasn’t ready to be in there four rounds with me.”

After a first round devoted mostly to feeling each other out, Rodriguez dropped Johnson twice in the second round — the first time with a short right hook, almost an uppercut, as Johnson came charging in, and the second time with a textbook right cross that snapped Johnson’s head sideways and sent his mouthpiece flying out of the ring.

Rodriguez had bent over Johnson with a hard right to the body in the first round, drawing a painful grimace from his 22-year-old opponent.

The third round was more of the same. Rodriguez, also 22, took a punch and then dropped Johnson with a straight right hand. Soon after that, a left-hand body shot put Johnson down for a fourth time.

Rodriguez finally ended it in the fourth round with a big overhand right that sent Johnson to the canvas for a fifth time before the referee waved the fight finished.

To his credit, Rodriguez didn’t go crazy trying to make the kill after any of his knockdowns, choosing instead to box his opponent and wait for the openings.

“I knew that he was going to be a tough kid and that he wasn’t going to go down easy and stay down easy,” Rodriguez said. “So I just worked and the knockout came.”

The fact that Johnson kept getting up for more was what surprised Rodriguez the most, he said. “I was surprised because I hit him hard to the body and he was something, he kept getting up. I take my hat off to him.”

Rodriguez looked a little winded in the fourth round, having thrown a barrage of punches at the persistent Johnson.

“I was a little punched out, but I felt he was going down (again),” Rodriguez said. “I wanted to be 2-0 with two KOs, and I did it.”

The only disappointments for Rodriguez were that his fight didn’t make it onto the live Telefutura telecast because the two co-features both went the distance, and also because Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions, which was co-promoter of the card, didn’t show up as expected.

In the fight after Rodriguez’s, Worcester junior welterweight Jose Velasquez lost a four-round split decision to Lowell’s Sean Eklund. The scores were 40-37, 40-37 and 38-40.
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Breakfast with Daddy the morning after his win






They ate...strawberry banana french toast, eggs with toast, sausage, chocolate chip pancakes, and hashbrowns. I couldn't BELIEVE how much they ate! I wish I had some pictures of them digging in, but they were too busy whining for me to give them more I didn't have time to take out the camera!
Serena doesn't love sweets and wasn't too impressed with the chocolate milk, and preferred the hashbrowns over the pancakes. Edwin loved everything!