Ferdie Pacheco

He was the matchmaker for CBS and Showtime. He gave us some really damn good fights, biased commentary notwithstanding.

 

Yeah, he's a ****.

 

Thanks for mentioning that documentary - I didn't know about it and I looked it up and watched it today. Good film. And you're right - he came across as a right ***** throughout.

Every other documentary I've seen he seemed polite, professional, caring, knowledgeable. This one he seemed to be sliding into old age, his speech seemed in the go, a bit slurred even, but he seemed like an objectionable old twat and he said dreadful things about Frazier that he should be ashamed of - being ugly and stupid beig only two.

Documentary reminded me of the Mark Kram book 'The Ghosts of Manila'. At first reading the book can seem biased and bitter, but the more I've read and seen, the more it seems spot on.

 

Greed. I think the Pacheo / Bobby Cheese announcing team set Showtime back ten years.

They were simply terrible.

 

Oh I remember that. Ferdie would make mistakes, but I think he was likable. Great personality. Bobby Czyz? I was not too keen on Czyz as an announcer.

 

Ferdie did make mistakes but he was worlds better than some of the commentators that HBO has had on in recent years. Sugar Ray Leonard? George Foreman? Lennox Lewis?

I think Lennox was doing Bong hits at Ringside.

 

He speaks his mind! It would be better for everyone if he kept it to him self. I have heard that he was very charitable offering free medical care to the poor as part of his medical practice. Unfortunately I never witnessed the charitable side of the "Fight Doctor".

Instead, I watched perhaps the worst big fight commentator in TV history. He questioned fighters heart when they should have be lauded, he was out of touch with what was going on in the ring, and he was a homer.

However, when denigrated Joe Frazier, calling him a "very stupid man" was beyond insensitive given the number that Ali et al had done to Joe over the years.

 

Couldn't stand him. He never called a fight correctly in his life! The way he tried to belittle that reporter in that Ali documentary not cool.:-( The guys a classic example of an arrogant ignorant arse that thinks he knows it all.

Pacheco knew shiiiiiiiiiiiiit bout baxin!

 

He was on some very strong medication at the time, due to recent surgery. I think interviewing him in that state was deliberate on the part of the documentary maker

 

He made me lose respect for the medical profession in its totality.

And Bobby Jizz is living proof that IQ tests are ****en meaningless.

 

He's so old people think he's dead.

 

Ferdie Pacheco needs to get punched in the face.

 

He was a talentless ******* who rode Ali's coat tails. Everything the guy has to do with boxing is a waste of time: His books, his paintings, his interviews, his commentary. It all sucks.

 

Well non of those were actually his true profession