Season 3: #36 Bernard Fernandez

Boxing Life Stories

Tris Dixon

Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Veteran Philadelphia boxing writer Bernard Fernandez is an International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee who has covered the sport for several decades. He cut his journalistic teeth back home in New Orleans. The son of a prizefighter, he loved boxing from the start and looked up to the likes of Carmen Basilio rather than basketball or baseball stars and when his career took him to Philly there was only one sport on his mind. He would cover fights involving Meldrick Taylor, Julio Cesar Chavez, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Riddick Bowe, Arturo Gatti and countless others along the way, while forming a special relationship with another Bernard from Philadelphia, Bernard Hopkins, whose career he covered from start to finish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So when I came to Philadelphia, which is a great fight town,
0:05.7	I figured, well, you know, hopefully I'll get a chance to cover some boxing.
0:12.0	And if Russell had a show that was running on, you know, like on Friday and
0:16.4	night or something like that, and he would go, oh, Bernie,
0:21.2	nobody wants to read about Delahoya or Tyson.
0:25.4	He want to hear read about my show.
0:28.4	It was like a feeding frenzy, you know, for the people that were there.
0:32.4	We were just so fortunate that we were in on the biggest story in boxing in years, you know,
0:38.5	and, and, and, you know, to be there and to be a part of something that was historic.
0:44.0	And, and very few other people were there for.
0:47.9	Hello, and welcome to Boxing Life Stories with me, Christy.
0:51.3	What happened in the ring after Tyson only got his child's flaking bed to that.
0:55.9	Still a goosebumps to this day.
0:59.6	You just, you couldn't take the tears from his eyes or the smile of his face, couldn't you?
1:04.0	I know.
1:04.8	I shouldn't have beaten me.
1:06.2	He said, well, let's bow you in the back.
1:07.8	And the pavement made me look like alcohol bomb.
1:10.0	And if he's going to be your knight.
1:11.4	He's winning, and there's nothing else.
1:15.8	Hello, this week I'm joined by veteran Philadelphia,
1:18.7	fight scribe Bernard Fernandez.
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