Bernard Fernandez
134 articles · Philadelphia Daily News
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ARUM’S CHINESE ADVENTURE BEGAN WITH MARCO POLO
Even with modern jet travel, it takes nearly a full day to journey the 7,321 miles from Bob Arum's headquarters in Las Vegas to Macao, China, where the 81-year-old founder of Top…
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Boxing Gods Bring Sunshine to Hall of Fame Celebration
CANASTOTA, N.Y. ? There is a tale, which might or might not be apocryphal, of the transcendence of the late, great Alabama football coach, Paul ?Bear? Bryant. On an overcast, drizzly afternoon…
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Hall of Fame: Even the stars can be starstruck in Canastota
CANASTOTA, N.Y. ? Former light heavyweight and cruiserweight champion Virgil ?Quicksilver? Hill was the last member of the Class of 2013 to step to the microphone, an honor usually reserved in any…
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Basilio gone, not forgotten in Canastota
CANASTOTA, N.Y. ? It has been a particularly mournful time in the 12 months since the International Boxing Hall of Fame last celebrated the sport?s rich history during its annual Induction Weekend,…
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The Bite Fight….And The King of Cowboys
The review copy of The Bite Fight: Tyson, Holyfield and the Night That Changed Boxing Forever arrived in the mail a couple of weeks ago. The promotional flyer that accompanied the 222-page…
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The Ring Proved a Refuge For Devon Alexander
For most people, the boxing ring might seem a dangerous place. The guy in the other corner is trying to hit you and, if he does it often enough and hard enough,…
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When Floyd Did Lose (And Why He Might Again)
As a professional boxer who has plied his trade for 17 dominant years, and earned pyramid-high stacks of cash in the process, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has not had to swallow the sour…
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Martinez Can Go Home Again, But Maybe Not To Stay
All he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again. ----Thomas Wolfe, ?You Can?t Go Home Again? Wolfe, the early 20th century American…
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CANELO-TROUT BRINGS FLASHBACKS TO 1993
Spanish philosopher/poet George Santayana once observed that "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." He meant it as a warning to future generations, that no mistake from another…
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Nonito Donaire: You Can’t Sit Down and Win
If there?s one thing Nonito Donaire has learned over these past 13 years, it?s that you can?t stand tall if you?re sitting down. Nor can you achieve your dreams if you become…
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Rigondeaux: The Vastly Experienced Neophyte
All right, fight fans, it?s pop quiz time. Your question for today: Guillermo ?El Chacal? Rigondeaux is ? well, what,exactly? A: A relative boxing neophyte, still a bit wet behind the ears…
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Hopkins Wants To Thrash King As Much As Cloud
Try as he might, Bernard ?The Executioner? Hopkins is finding it difficult to generate much animosity toward IBF light heavyweight champion Tavoris Cloud, whom he challenges in the HBO-televised main event March…
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Nonito Donaire, Rios-Alvarado Snag BERNIES
It?s been a couple of years since last I made a year-end boxing list and checked it twice. But TSS editor Michael Woods has petitioned contributors to this site to do just…
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He Saw Manny Pacquiao, and Was Hit By The Thunderbolt
There is a great scene from the Best Picture of 1972, The Godfather , that reminds me of why boxing fans are so taken with certain fighters. Temporarily exiled American Michael Corleone…
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Trout Angling To Hook A Whopper In Cotto
To the less-than-fully-informed boxing fan, ?Austin Trout? sounds like something a fisherman has reeled in from a lake in close proximity to Texas? capital city. Oh, sure, Austin ?No Doubt? Trout has…
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Hatton Tries To Get Back To Where He Once Belonged
The ever-so-appropriate words were written and sung by another famous British subject, Sir Paul McCartney, in the days when the Beatles were cranking out even more smash hits than those authored in…
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Who killed USA Boxing: How amateur boxing became a joke
The English language is a marvelous tool for describing what is and what isn't, what could be and what might never be again. And "inchoate" - meaning not yet completed or fully…
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Some Guys Apparently Don’t Know It When They See It
One of the more memorable quotes ever attributed to a Supreme Court Justice was authored by Potter Stewart in 1964, when the respected jurist weighed in with his thoughts on ?hard-core pornography?…
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Thomas Hearns: a hall of fame evolution
Of the many widely held beliefs in boxing, one of the oldest and hoariest holds that punchers are born, not made. Knockout artists are said to emerge from their mothers? wombs with…
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Pacquiao-Bradley Undercard Has Philly Flavor
Some of the more popular dishes in Manny Pacquiao?s homeland of the Philippines are pork menudo, pancit molo, maja blanca, inihaw na liempo and dinuguan at puto. It can be presumed that…