Bernard Fernandez
134 articles · Philadelphia Daily News
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MATTHYSSE-PROVODNIKOV HAD 1950S THROWBACK FEEL
VERONA, N.Y. ? For a fight that was so right in a lot of ways, Lucas Matthysse?s 12-round, majority decision over Ruslan Provodnikov here Saturday night at the Turning Stone Resort Casino…
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MAY-PAC STIRS MEMORIES OF HAGLER-LEONARD FOR SUGAR RAY
It has been said in Hollywood that there are no original ideas, just variations of familiar plots and story lines. And so it is in boxing, which perhaps is why the movie…
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MAY-PAC: ?HIGHEST-GROSSING? DOESN’T NECESSARILY MEAN ?BIGGEST? OR ?BEST?
There are many ways to keep score, but in today?s bottom-line world, whoever racks up the most cash often is presumed to be the winner. And when you?re talking about a boxing…
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Wladimir Klitschko Continues to Reinvent Himself
NEW YORK ? Wladimir Klitschko, it would appear, has found his Seven-Year Niche. When last the younger of boxing?s two dominant heavyweights fought here, a thoroughly bland unanimous decision over Russia?s Sultan…
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Hopkins Hoping To Avoid Bittersweet Taste of Stale Sugar
Boxing writers are only human, so members of our curious fraternity perhaps can be excused for repeating certain mistakes, if for no other reason than force of habit. A lot of us…
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From THE RING Magazine: Bernard Hopkins learned discipline in prison
?Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour,? Albert Einstein said. ?Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a…
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Mayweather: The Perfect Fighter Still Pitching the Perfect Game
New York Yankees righthander Don Larsen, who had gone 3-21 just two seasons earlier with the Baltimore Orioles, had only minutes earlier finished pitching the first ? and to date, only ?…
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Kovalev In Good Place, But Others Would Marvel at Thawing of Cold War
It probably isn?t in any of the history lessons taught in the classrooms of Chelyabinsk, Russia, which is the hometown of WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev, or even in Fort Lauderdale,…
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MAYWEATHER, LIKE SUPERMAN, NEEDS A LITTLE KRYPTONITE TO MAINTAIN INTEREST
NEW YORK -- Maybe it really happened, maybe it didn?t. But, the oft-recited and perhaps apocryphal story goes, Muhammad Ali was seated on a jet airliner when, just before takeoff, a female…
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Just Call New Champ Algieri "Hand of Stony Brook"
NEW YORK ? In those 1960s Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns, opportunistic gunslinger Clint Eastwood played the role of the Man With No Name. Going into Saturday night?s HBO-televised matchup with WBO junior…
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Fathers knew best for IBHOF inductees
CANASTOTA, N.Y. ? In the name of the father. That was the recurring theme of the 25th annual International Boxing Hall of Fame induction Sunday, with enshrinees Oscar De La Hoya, Felix…
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Kathy Duva Speaks Out On…Well, Everything (Part 2)
Trying to fully unify a world championship in the fragmented arena of professional boxing ? any world championship, in any weight class ? is proving more difficult than super-gluing the fragmented, war-torn…
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.?s not-so-secret weapon: The shoulder roll
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is nothing quite like true originals. Larry Donald and the late Greg Page were pretty good heavyweights, but their paint-by-numbers…
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Kathy Duva Speaks Out On…Well, Everything (Part 1)
You say this latest ?Cold War? pitting Showtime and Golden Boy?s Richard Schaefer against HBO and Top Rank founder Bob Arum is basically a new twist on an old theme? Something with…
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Bradley Is Not Pacquiao’s Most Taxing Concern
Let me tell you how it will be There?s one for you, 19 for me ?Cause I?m the taxman, yeah, I?m the Taxman --Lyrics from a George Harrison-written song on the Beatles?…
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Sulaiman Was A Lightning Rod For Controversy
If you think there is polarization on opposite sides of the aisle in the United States Congress, just try to reconcile the widely disparate comments made about WBC president Jose Sulaiman, who…
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VICTORIOUS RIGONDEAUX LIKES HIS STYLE JUST FINE
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ? When you stop and think about it, boxing fans are no different than moviegoers that have to decide which flick they want to see on a given night…
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Pacquiao Must Deal With the Mother of All Distractions
For a lot of people ? too many, probably ? the worst natural disasters are viewed with a certain sense of detachment. Maybe that?s because it?s difficult for the less compassionate among…
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Halloween Came Early As Hopkins Dominates Murat
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. ? The calendar said that Halloween wasn?t for another five days. But the calendar was wrong. Halloween, in all its guises, was on display here Saturday night in Boardwalk…
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CJ Ross & Eugenia Williams Might Have A Lot To Talk About
The goal of gender equality, at least as it pertains to the participation of females as boxing judges for world championship bouts, took another major hit Saturday night when already-controversial judge C.J.…