Bernabé Fernández

Bernard Fernandez (born September 21, 1947) is an American sportswriter and author from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020, in the Observer category. Fernandez was a newspaper sportswriter for 43 years before retiring in 2012 after 28 years with Philadelphia Daily News. He is a native of New Orleans, and a long-time resident of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, who now splits his time between his hometown and his adopted hometown. A five-term president of the Boxing Writers Association of America, he has been inducted into the Pennsylvania (2005), New Jersey (2013), Atlantic City (2018) and International (2020) Boxing Halls of Fame. He also is a recipient of the Nat Fleischer Award (1998) for Excellence in Boxing Journalism and the Barney Nagler Award (2015) for Long and Meritorious Service to Boxing.

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