The ESPN FNF feature attraction saw welterweights Delvin Rodriguez paired with Troy Browning in a lopsided affair with Rodriguez getting the win in a near-perfect game. 

Rodriguez last outing was some six months past, a TKO win over Keenan Collins, and this one was to be second comeback confidence builder since TKO loss to Jose Feliciano on March of 2007. 

Browning, a sentimental choice for those who watched the ESPN pre-fight mini-bio on the age 41, who was on the shelf since June of 2007, and prior to that hadn’t fought since November of 1998.

But for true grit and determination, the blue-collar trash picker truck driver from Willingsboro, NJ, arrived undefeated at 20 wins with eight by knockout.

Rodriguez showed better accuracy over the early rounds as he repeatedly beat his elder to the mark - right hands against the southpaw landed flush on the target - Browning displayed a strong chin as he marched forward but was unable to get anything off.

On my unofficial I scored no more than stanza five for the Jersey gamer, when he found the target with the left hand, as the Dominican failed to bring the defense with him after four successful earlier candles of his own.

Goes the distance with the official tallies Rodriguez 100-90, 100-90, 99-91 - and my unofficial agreed with 99-91 in points and 9-1 under proven round by round method.

Rest of story: Delvin Rodriguez: (22-2, 13 KO) ~ age 27 and pretty much locked in to the boxer-puncher style. The quickness is in deliveries but not the “Gatlin” version, more of a semi-automatic tempo. Has been schooled on the basic jab, right hand, left hook. That’s the good news - the bad news is habit of carrying left hand low, and is slow moving away after delivering a payload. Cost him in Feliciano loss. Future is small club main events.
                    Troy Browning: (20-1, 8 KO) ~ confesses he needs the moonlighting money for extra cash to the full time trash trucking job. My passing thoughts during some of last night’s action, that had it been contested with both at same age, my dime would be on Browning.

Referee Richard Flaherty: barely earns passing grades in this one. Low blows, real and imagined, get quick reaction - but mixes intent with inadvertent - unlike the today meeting of the minds that are routinely seen as accidental.

GEL