1960s Middleweight Pete Fernandez (Info/research needed)

evndrbsn · Post by **evndrbsn** » 10 Nov 2005, 13:21

I was wondering if anyone had more information about the career of Pete Fernandez, boxer id 154667. He is listed as a super middleweight (he fought at 161 on his only listed bout), but he was a middleweight contender fighting out of Tampa, FL, USA in the early to mid-1960s from what I have heard. Pete himself said he had a record around 22-2.

The database only has him at 1-3-0 with only 4 fights:

1965-03-06: Jack McClain ... TKO 2
(Miami, FL, USA)

1965-04-23: Johnny Hobbs ... KO by 8
(Savannah, GA, USA)

1965-07-27: Harry Tetlow ... KO by 6
(Miami Beach, FL, USA)

1965-12-10: Tim Ford ... KO by 3
(Jacksonville, FL, USA)

evndrbsn · Post by **evndrbsn** » 21 Nov 2005, 12:34

Any information would be greatly appreciated!!!

Post by **John** » 21 Nov 2005, 15:07

I checked the RRBs 1960 thru 1966 and found one missing bout.

evndrbsn · Post by **evndrbsn** » 22 Nov 2005, 00:52

JohnShep wrote:I checked the RRBs 1960 thru 1966 and found one missing bout.

Thanks JohnShep! If anyone else has any information or is good at research, feel free to chip in.

evndrbsn · Post by **evndrbsn** » 12 Jul 2013, 12:48

I'd like to bump this. Also I should note I made a typo with his record, I meant 22-3, not 22-2. He had to retire due to an eye injury suffered in one of his final fights that began to hinder his vision. It was later attributed to and diagnosed as traumatic glaucoma. We spoke a lot about his professional career when I trained under him (and concurrently assisted in training camps and classes while he still operated out of X-Treme Fitness in Tampa). According to him, it got to a point where he just couldn't see the punches coming.

I was wondering if someone could do some newspaper research, as my newspaper archive subscription I used for boxing research recently expired and I no longer have the resources to do so. In Tampa, he was quite well known and when I still covered boxing as a journalist and had my own column, older people in the industry that I spoke with confirmed his version of events. One such person is Walter "Butch" Flansburg, founder of the Florida Boxing Hall of Fame, who was photographer back in those days.

His BoxRec Encyclopedia entry can be found here:

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Pete_Fernandez

Here is the link to his record on BoxRec:

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer

More about traumatic glaucoma can be read about on the following site:

http://www.glaucoma.org/glaucoma/traumatic-glaucoma.php

1960s Middleweight Pete Fernandez (Info/research needed)

1960s Middleweight Pete Fernandez (Info/research needed)

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