Bernard Fernandez
134 articles · Philadelphia Daily News
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Hector Camacho’s unique story hardly could be condensed into a mere 90 minutes
Given my dealings with the late Hector “Macho” Camacho over the course of the years our professional lives intersected, I was one of many reasonably logical choices Ring Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief Douglass Fischer…
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Groundswell Builds to Send the Late Dan Goossen Into the Boxing Hall of Fame
Groundswell Builds to Send the Late Dan Goossen Into the Boxing Hall of Fame In New Orleans, some funerals are never a cause for tearful mourning. The life of the recently departed…
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Les Moonves, Hero of Mayweather-Pacquiao Deal, Now Cast as a Villain
?He refused to take ?no? for an answer.? That comment, offered in praise of Les Moonves for the pivotal role the chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation played in helping make the…
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Common Sense Dictated that GGG-Canelo Not Be Limited to a One-and-Done
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez, as well as their respective support crews, apparently have found something they can agree on. ?Of course, we were all disappointed (the scheduled May 5 rematch didn?t…
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Lomachenko Might Not Want to Take the Elevator Too Far North
NEW YORK ? The early-shift bellman at the Row NYC Hotel, an avid boxing fan, was raving over what he?d seen the previous night on ESPN from a very slick, highly skilled,…
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Isaac Dogboe Itching to Go Where Azumah Nelson Left Off
The wear-and-tear of a boxing career can drain most vestiges of youth from even a young man?s face. There is something about ridges of scar tissue and multiple broken noses healed at…
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Random Thoughts on PEDs Cheats, Dithering Referees and More
Somewhat lost in the boxing world?s understandable fascination with this past weekend?s Anthony Joshua-Joseph Parker heavyweight unification showdown in Cardiff, Wales, was the result of the top undercard bout, in which Russian…
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Yesterday They Were Telling the Truth; Now They?re Lying (Maybe)
It was at the New York City press conference to officially announce the Nov. 4 WBC heavyweight title fight between champion Deontay Wilder (38-0, 37 KOs) and the man many deemed to…
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Will GGG?s Patience Pay Off on Sept. 16 vs. Canelo?
Abel Sanchez was recalling his first fight as the new trainer of Gennady Golovkin, who had come to him at the relatively advanced age of 28 in the hope of turning around…
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Random Thoughts on a Spectacle That Exceeded My (Modest) Expectations
I had promised myself, and TSS readers, that I absolutely would not spend one cent of my money on the ?dog-and-pony show,? as I had termed it, that Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor…
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Mayweather-McGregor: As Always, Follow The Money
OK, so I was wrong. I have been wrong before. But on those occasions when I did offer a prediction that turned out to be incorrect, it was usually made for the…
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Ward-Kovalev II Has 1980?s Style ?Cold War? Feel
The 1980s passed into history, what, 27? years ago? So much has changed in America and in the world since then. But maybe not as much as any of us would like…
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After Crushing Fonfara, Will Stevenson Seek Out the Ward-Kovalev II Winner?
In a boxing landscape littered with alphabetized fiefdoms and multiple titleholders in the same weight class, identifying an indisputable world champion is a quest as seemingly hopeless as that undertaken by the…
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Terence Crawford is Boffo in Omaha; Can His Act Play as Well on a Bigger Stage?
?Will it play in Peoria?? is a phrase widely believed to have been popularized by 19th century American author Horatio Alger. It has come to mean the viability of a given product,…
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Canelo Humiliates Chavez Jr. Can He Do the Same Thing to GGG?
It didn?t take long for the snarky remarks to surface. Even before Canelo Alvarez had finished humiliating Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., pitching a 12-round shutout on all three judges? scorecards with a…
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Bernard Hopkins, Channeling his Inner Peter Marciano, Picks Jacobs over GGG
Bernard Hopkins has never been a shrinking violet when it comes to offering strong opinions, on anything, so perhaps it shouldn?t come as a surprise that he is making a somewhat bold…
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Keith Thurman Has a Leg Up in Showtime?s Welterweight Game of Thrones
BROOKLYN, N.Y. ? Thrones are wherever you find them, and one of the many would-be princes in Showtime?s undeclared tournament to crown an undisputed king of the welterweights, or something akin to…
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In His New Book, Jerry Izenberg Pays Homage to the Golden Era of Heavyweights
JERRY IZENBERG?S ?Once There Were Giants?: ? Anyone who saw the great 2004 biopic about Ray Charles, Ray, might recall what Jamie Foxx, who won the Academy Award as Best Actor for…
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Ringling Bros. Throws in the Towel: Should Boxing?s Ringmasters be Concerned?
THE CIRCUS IS SHUTTING DOWN ? Two definitions of ?tradition,? as listed in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, describe it as ?cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs and institutions,? as well ?an inherited, established…
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The Boxing Scene, Yesterday and Tomorrow: Some Random Thoughts
THE BOXING SCENE; RANDOM THOUGHTS ? It?s early January, which means every boxing publication and web site has probably alerted readers as to who and what they believe were the best of…