Ohio State Former Boxers and Associates, Inc. has selected Antonio “Tony” Rodriguez to receive the Man of the Year Award for 2014. Rodriguez was born in 1963, and he graduated from West Technical High School with honors. During his amateur boxing career, he won three Golden Gloves titles as well as three local ABF Tournaments. His amateur boxing record is 57 wins and 8 losses.
Rodriguez gives Jack Slatery, the founder of the Lake Business Products, Inc. imagining systems many thanks for helping him with his boxing career. “Jack was a big boxing fan. Whenever I needed time off for a fight, he helped me out. I see him as a member of my own family,” Rodriguez said. When Rodriguez met hall-of-famer, Jimmy Bivins, he began his boxing career at 16 years old at the West Side Community House in Cleveland.
Rodriguez had the help of Bivins to begin his amateur career in boxing. When Rodriguez started his professional boxing career in 1992. After compiling an impressive winning record as a professional boxer, Rodriguez won the Ohio State Welterweight title in a bout against Sam Gervins in Parma. Another milestone in Rodriguez’s boxing career came in 1995 when he fought four-time world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho, in which he lost in a 10 round decision. The bout was held at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on September 28th, 1995.
Although Rodriguez no longer fights, he enjoys coaching boxers. Rodriguez’s boxing career included beating such outstanding boxers as Terrence Kelly, Nick Parker, Robert Briggs, Rodney Tatum, Lee Smith and George Taylor. Rodriguez partnered with Joe Delguyd and they formed the Old School Boxing Club in Cleveland, where they train amateur and professional boxers. His professional boxing record is 12-2 with seven KO’s.
Rodriguez works for the Lake Business Products, Inc. imagining systems as a marketing representative. He is engaged to Marisol Asia and he serves on the board of the Ohio State Former Boxers, Inc.