CLASSIC BOXER BERNARDO MERCADO

karla mercado · Post by **karla mercado** » 14 Aug 2003, 19:01

BERNARDO MERCADO I THINK WAS THE BEST BECAUSE HE FATE ONLY THE BEST AND HE ONLY LOST 5 HE DIDNT FITE ALI BUT THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS BERNARDO HASENT SEEN ALI BUT HOPES TO SOMEDAY SWO DONT HATE ON BERNARDO MERCADO BECAUSE HES ONLY FATE THE BEST AND LOST 5 TIME BUT LOOK AT IT THIS WAY BACK THEN THERE WAS GOOD FITERS AND SOME OF THEM GOT BEAT BY BERNARDO MERCADO. ALWAYS KARLA MERCADO

karla mercado · Post by **karla mercado** » 14 Aug 2003, 19:12

karla mercado wrote:BERNARDO MERCADO I THINK WAS THE BEST BECAUSE HE FATE ONLY THE BEST AND HE ONLY LOST 5 HE DIDNT FITE ALI BUT THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS BERNARDO HASENT SEEN ALI BUT HOPES TO SOMEDAY SO DONT HATE ON BERNARDO MERCADO BECAUSE HES ONLY FATE THE BEST AND LOST 5 TIMES BUT LOOK AT IT THIS WAY BACK THEN THERE WAS GOOD FITERS AND SOME OF THEM GOT BEAT BY BERNARDO MERCADO. ALWAYS KARLA MERCADO

Vetteguy99 · Post by **Vetteguy99** » 15 Aug 2003, 22:36

Thanks Terap,

As his record indicates Bernardo was a World Class guy who
had a Great Career. I wish he and his family, all the best.

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 17 Aug 2003, 02:13

I remember watching his fight with Shavers on ABC Wide World of Sports...It was a pretty exciting fight ...

Mercado got off the floor after taking one of those trademark Shavers right cross to flatten Shavers in the seventh
(IMO the Shavers right is hardest single punch in heavyweight history)
and come back to win Is a terrific accomplishment for Benardo Mercado

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 17 Aug 2003, 07:38

Wasn't there talk of a Bernardo Mercardo v Mike Tyson fight at one point?

Freedom · Post by **Freedom** » 17 Aug 2003, 12:07

The best Columbian Heavyweight ever.

Nile4000 · Post by **Nile4000** » 15 Feb 2006, 14:24

A Mercado vs Cooney fight would've been interesting.

BrocktonBlockbuster49 · Post by **BrocktonBlockbuster49** » 15 Feb 2006, 14:32

he knocked out trevor berbick with one punch

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 16 Feb 2006, 07:53

BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:he knocked out trevor berbick with one punch

Yes thats a very good result as Berbick had an iron chin... I regard Tysons ko over Berbick as his best performance.
Mercadoe had great fights with Leon Spinks and Earnie Shavers, both of which I have, ...he also had a great fight with Tex Cobb that I'd sell my wife to get my hands on!... 8)

Brutu · Post by **Brutu** » 19 Aug 2006, 18:06

I read in a old newspaer article about him,that Bernardo Mercado
had knocked out Teofilo Stevenson in the Pan-American games?
Could someone confirm this?

Brutu · Post by **Brutu** » 19 Aug 2006, 18:08

silkov wrote:
BrocktonBlockbuster49 wrote:he knocked out trevor berbick with one punch
...he also had a great fight with Tex Cobb that I'd sell my wife to get my hands on!... 8)

Wasnt that fight on the undercard of the
Larry Holmes vrs Renaldo Snipes fight?

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 20 Aug 2006, 10:08

Decagon wrote:How old's your wife, Silkov?

She won't tell me!... :x

Brutu · Post by **Brutu** » 22 Aug 2006, 19:07

Another intersting bit of info.
Did you know that Trevor Berbick and Bernardo Mercado
fought in the amateurs.
In the Sixth Central American and Caribbean Boxing championships
in Guatemala in August 1975.
The two fought for the gold medal.
Bernardo Mercado won the first two rounds on points but Trevor Berbick knocked him out in the 3rd round to win the Gold medal.

silkov · Post by **silkov** » 23 Aug 2006, 06:40

One fight I've been looking for for years is Mercadoes fight with Tex Cobb... I read about it at the time and it was a real brawl... if anyone has this fight or can get it I'd definately be interested in buying it or swapping for it....

locoxelbox · Post by **locoxelbox** » 24 Aug 2006, 00:02

Brutu wrote:I read in a old newspaer article about him,that Bernardo Mercado
had knocked out Teofilo Stevenson in the Pan-American games?
Could someone confirm this?

I'm pretty sure he didn't. He did fight at the 1974 Central American & Caribbean Games as a light heavy. He was stopped in the semi-final by Venezuela.

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 24 Aug 2006, 06:11

silkov wrote:One fight I've been looking for for years is Mercadoes fight with Tex Cobb... I read about it at the time and it was a real brawl... if anyone has this fight or can get it I'd definately be interested in buying it or swapping for it....

It wasnt broadcast. ABC broadcast Holmes v Snipes & Dokes v Chaplin. The Young/Franco Thomas fight was broadcast in 'review format' a few weeks later, all of which i have. I have some footage of the Mercado/Cobb fight, i think HLs.

Cobb said the hardest punch he ever felt was from Shavers. The other 100 came from Bernardo Mercado.

Like a lot of these great missing undercard fights, someone somewhere will have a master copy, so keep searching!

Ambling Alp · Post by **Ambling Alp** » 27 Aug 2006, 16:44

terap wrote:BERNARDO MERCADO

Nationality Colombia
Height 6' 6

Won 34 (KOs 29) | Lost 5 | Drawn 0 | Tot 39

Mercado had 13 ONE-ROUND KO'S

Including one-round KO's over Marvin Johnson, Trevor Berbick, Roger Russell

TKO'd ERNIE SHAVERS in 7
Stopped Manuel Ramos in 5
James J. Woody in 3
Randy Stephens in 2
Tom Prater in 12

won 10 round decision over Henry Clark

Lost decision to Randell Tex Cobb
Was stopped by John Tate, Mike Weaver, and Leon Spinks

Just wanted to point out that the Marvin Johnson that Mercado knocked out wasn't the lightheavyweight champion Marvin Johnson.

Brutu · Post by **Brutu** » 29 Aug 2006, 15:14

I also read in a old newspaer article from 1975,the year he turned professional,that Bernardo Mercado competed in the 1972 Olmpics.
Isnt there a database somewhere of all of Teofilo Stevenson's amateur fights?

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 29 Aug 2006, 15:37

Brutu wrote:Isnt there a database somewhere of all of Teofilo Stevenson's amateur fights?

Here it is.

http://www.geocities.com/pedrinet/

kingpawn · Post by **kingpawn** » 31 Aug 2006, 10:02

zurdo wrote:I remember watching his fight with Shavers on ABC Wide World of Sports...It was a pretty exciting fight ...

Mercado got off the floor after taking one of those trademark Shavers right cross to flatten Shavers in the seventh
(IMO the Shavers right is hardest single punch in heavyweight history)
and come back to win Is a terrific accomplishment for Benardo Mercado

Yes I, too, remember watching Mercado-Shavers on Wide World Of Sports and that it was an exciting fight. Seems to me Shavers decked Mercado in about the third round and had him cut and bleeding, but then Earnie pulled one of his usual fades -- similar to what Foreman did to himself in Zaire -- and was out of gas by the 7th round.

Don't recall Mercado knocking Earnie down. I think he just had him hurt and Earnie was covering up on the ropes and not defending himself while Mercado was peppering away with these little quick shots, and the ref finally stepped in and stopped it.

I've always thought one of the reasons Shavers failed to finish in some of his biggest fights in which he had guys down (i.e. Mercado, Holmes, Lyle) is because he didn't just hit 'em with ANY SHOT when the ref would waive him back in. He always would try to land another bomb, like just landing ANY SHOT wouldn't be good enough, and, in failing to do so, his opponents had just enough time to get their faculties back and manage to survive the round.

Brutu · Post by **Brutu** » 31 Aug 2006, 16:57

Reportly Shavers had cut his glove on Mercado's teeth when he
knocked him down with a uppercut.
The referree did not notice the tear until the fourth round.
According to Shaver's autobiography,he cooled down while they were fixing the glove.
But then why didnt Shaver's finish him off in round three?

RazorKO · Post by **RazorKO** » 31 Aug 2006, 17:04

Brutu wrote:Reportly Shavers had cut his glove on Mercado's teeth when he
knocked him down with a uppercut.
The referree did not notice the tear until the fourth round.
According to Shaver's autobiography,he cooled down while they were fixing the glove.
But then why didnt Shaver's finish him off in round three?

Thats true, the ref indeed noticed the tear and the fight was stopped for about 1-2 minutes giving Mercado precious time to recover.
Shavers had Mercado badly hurt with a left-to the body and right on top which floored him in the 3rd, than Mercado simply ran away with Shavers winging shots and most did miss which faded him out.
It was the 7th round where Mercado floored Shavers with pitty-pat punches but Earnie fell down from more than exhaustion or anything, than more quick punches from Mercado and the ref stopped the fight.

kclovekat · Post by **kclovekat** » 21 Nov 2008, 22:59

I REMEMBER THIS POST!!! LOL!!

karla mercado · Post by **karla mercado** » 09 Mar 2011, 16:04

KOJOE90 wrote:Wasn't there talk of a Bernardo Mercardo v Mike Tyson fight at one point?

yes there was*

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