“After that fight I had things to sew up,” Rodriguez admits. “He still won. Everything he did, the technique he used, and the way I fought, he beat me. If anything, I’m kind of disappointed for him. He blew an opportunity, and it was just sad. But I have no ill will towards him or anything.”
Since those three rounds in Sacramento, Rodriguez has braved the New England fall in a quest to get better, and now he’ll take his lessons learned to South Korea.
“I don’t mind it,” he said of the nearly 7,000 mile trip. “I’m just looking at it as a good opportunity to go to Asia and do something that you love. I think it’s gonna be awesome and I’m embracing it more than anything.
“I just continue from here and continue building.”
