Rodriguez, a resident of Worcester, MA, will finish 2009 going 5-0, scoring 4 KO's along the way. Among those wins was a highlight reel KO of Brad Austin that's now appearing in a national Prilosec OTC ad campaign, a KO of the once stopped Patrick Thompson, and a decision over durable journeyman Darnell Boone.
For Norman, who has gone the distance with light heavyweight titleholder Jean Pascal and junior middleweight contender Joe Greene, he has now been stopped twice consecutively by unbeaten prospects.