Bernard Fernandez
134 articles · Philadelphia Daily News
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Eddie Futch Tribute ? Trainer Extaordinaire
Eddie Futch Tribute ? Any ?best-of? list is, of course, subjective. Whenever someone offers his or her opinion on such, it almost always makes for lively and sometimes heated debate. Boxing is…
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Will ?Jerry?s World? Become a Magnet for Megafights? Jerry says ?Yes!?
Long before he rose to almost incomprehensible fame and fortune as the owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones ? a starting offensive lineman for the University of…
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IBHOF Blog: Leonard, Izenberg moved by the love in Canastota
CANASTOTA, N.Y. ? Several years ago, Philadelphia billed itself as ?the place that loves you back,? as an inducement to out-of-town visitors to come and sample all that the city has to…
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Canelo and the Conspiracy Theory
On Nov. 21, 2013, the day before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, director and noted conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone weighed in on the subject…
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Boxing: Of Crafty Southpaws and Identical Twins
The term ?crafty southpaw? has been a part of the baseball lexicon since the first left-handed pitcher served up a slow-moving, well-placed breaking ball that had the poor schnook in the batter?s…
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GGG vs. “The Alien” at 168 or 170? It Almost Happened !
A funny thing happened on the way to the dreadful mismatch that was unified middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin vs. Dominic Wade: Fight fans might have gotten a pairing of ?GGG? and ageless…
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Nonito Donaire Thriving in Virtual Anonymity
Is it possible for a reigning world champion and former ?Fighter of the Year? of fairly recent vintage to headline his own pay-per-view card, do his thing before 25,000 screaming, supportive fans…
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Boxing: ?GGG? Golovkin Wrecks Wade in Two Rounds
The oddsmakers had made Dominic Wade a longer longshot than Custer at the Little Bighorn, and even then they probably didn?t give Gennady ?GGG? Golovkin, the world?s best and scariest middleweight his…
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Amir Khan and the Potential for Shattered Glass
If he works long enough and hard enough in the gym, a fighter can sharpen his boxing skills. He can tighten up his defense, improve his footwork and learn to make in-bout…
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Boxing: Manny Pacquiao and the Encroachment of Age
The encroachment of age is something no boxer can stave off indefinitely. At first, it approaches even the finest practitioners of the pugilistic arts almost imperceptibly, on little cat?s feet, but the…
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Pacquiao, Arum Channel Gen. Macarthur in Manny’s Farewell Address
NEW YORK ? There will be other press conferences in the days and weeks leading up to what he insists will be his final boxing match, against two-time previous opponent Timothy Bradley…
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The New Year Offers Lots of Hope for the Fight Game
The hand-written note from Larry Merchant, gone from his commentator?s seat for HBO boxing telecasts but certainly not forgotten, gave this fellow fight fanatic hope that 2016 could be?let?s all cross our…
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Don?t Hold Your Breath on a GGG-Canelo Unification Fight
In the Oct. 18, 1924, editions of the New York Herald Tribune, Grantland Rice authored one of the most famous opening paragraphs in sports writing history. Assessing Notre Dame?s 13-7 victory over…
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Cotto: Real or Illusion ? From THE RING Magazine
Note: This feature originally appeared in the December 2015 issue of THE RING Magazine SOME BELIEVE FREDDIE ROACH IS THE REASON BEHIND MIGUEL COTTO?S RESURGENCE, SOME DON?T! Casey Stengel is enshrined in…
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Mayweather?s Main Appeal Now His Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous
Making history by matching Rocky Marciano?s 49-0 record? Forget it. Mere boxing considerations no longer are what drives the public to follow the aptly nicknamed Floyd ?Money? Mayweather Jr. (48-0, 26 KOs)…
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Danny Garcia Finding Out Winning Isn’t Always Enough
There are several ways of determining when a particular fighter is hot, and when he?s not. One of those ways is whether the fighter in question is calling someone else out, or…
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`Siberian Rocky? Ready To Add a Little Apollo Creed To His Repertoire
Ruslan Provodnikov was smiling like the proverbial Cheshire cat that ate the canary at the 89th annual Boxing Writers Association of America Awards Dinner, at Las Vegas? MGM Grand on May 1,…
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IBHOF inductee Steve Smoger has seen the world thanks to boxing
A recruiting slogan introduced in the 1920s urged young Americans who longed to visit exotic destinations to ?Join the Navy and See the World.? But for boxing-loving individuals who might not be…
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The Real “Fight of the Century” Remains Corrales-Castillo I
Forget the hype. Forget what you were told. Forget even what you know, or think you know. Not to disparage Mayweather-Pacquiao, which is the undisputed revenue-producing champion of all time, but the…
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?MONEY MAY? AND THE PROFITABLE POWER OF HATE
The power of love is a curious thing Make a one man weep, make another man sing Change a hawk to a little white dove More than a feeling, that?s the power…