Ferdie Pacheco

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  1. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Watching a basketball game tonight and the announcer referred to "the late Ferdie Pacheco". I double checked, but Ferdie is still alive.

    Any thoughts on Ferdie? :patsch:lol:
     
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  2. fatcity

    fatcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I thought he may have passed as well.I heard he had advanced Ahlzheimers and was hospitalised
    Perhaps I am wrong then.:huh
     
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  3. Vic-JofreBRASIL

    Vic-JofreBRASIL Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I like the guy, but he is too biased on Ali tbh....
     
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  4. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ferdie's still alive.
     
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  5. Boxed Ears

    Boxed Ears this my daddy's account (RIP daddy) Full Member

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  6. ETM

    ETM I thought I did enough to win. Full Member

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    I like Ferdie as well. He is biased towards Ali but I cant blame him. If I spent that many years with Ali I would be biased too. I didn't like the way he spoke about Joe Frazier in that documentary a few years back about Manila. He always was respectful of Joe in previous shows.

    I do respect the fact that he walked away after informing Ali, his wife and his manager that Ali`s health was diminishing. He couldve stayed along till the end like many others did. I think he left the camp in `76. There was still some $ in it for him but he had some integrity. Bottom line he cared about Muhammad Ali.

    I thought he was a colorful analyst on Showtime and I will always remember when he called a knockout in Nelson/Fenech 2. Right before it happened.
     
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  7. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I always liked it when a fighter called him Freddie in an interview.
     
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  8. salsanchezfan

    salsanchezfan Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    He always had the air of a lackey. Didn't like him.
     
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  9. Theron

    Theron Boxing Addict banned

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    I did not like the guy at all mainly for his fight calls and for what he said about Joe
     
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  10. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    lol. I think Larry Holmes was a paerticular offender.
     
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  11. choklab

    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    and don king lol!
     
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  12. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Awful commentator.

    So bad he almost ruined one of my favorite fights the Chacon-Edwards rematch.
     
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  13. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I recall Ferdie mixing up Riddick Bowe and Razor Ruddock one time and what came out of his mouth was Ruddock Buttock.
     
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  14. natonic

    natonic Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I'd like to think he wasn't as big a **** as he appeared to be in the "Thriller in Manila" documentary of a few years ago. He said some bad things about Frazier, but I think he was already on his way out mentally.
     
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  15. sweet_scientist

    sweet_scientist Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    One of the very worst commentators.
     
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