User:Pedro Fernandez Boxing

Pedro Fernandez, a native San Franciscan is an award-winning boxing writer who garnered seven amateur boxing titles, four Golden Gloves championships and lost a decision to Vincent Webb in the 1984 Western Olympic Trials. His boxing career started in 1969-70 when ex #1 heavyweight contender Eddie Machen pulled Pedro off a youth who had taken some money off a pinball machine that belonged to Pedro, better known as Pete. He would go 7-0 before losing a decision to Eddie Smith in 1974.

Attended James Lick Jr. High, where in 1971, Fernandez began writing for others to read. Went to Mission High School in San Francisco for a year, before transferring and graduating from South San Francisco High School. Editor of the SSF Warrior, Fernandez branched out and started the Sporting Green, which had only one sports story per issue. The rest of the content was dedicated to exposing wrongs in the South San Francisco school system, drug use, and concert reviews. In 1975, he was voted "Outstanding High School Journalist" for San Mateo County. Having written sports and crime, Pete went on to cover The Arts & Sports for the Oakland Tribune, in addition to writing sports features for the San Francisco Examiner. In the early 90's, Fernandez penned a cover story for Essence Magazine, the Black equivalent of Playboy.

Fernandez joined the San Francisco Police Dept. in 1981, working uniform, plain clothes, undercover, and was the Mission District Police rep for the Latino community. Fernandez left the SFPD to raise his daughter Jacqueline Fernandez and work as a television commentator on boxing, traveling to 31 countries. He quit Comcast South TV in 2008 because he was sick of traveling. He now hosts the longest running fight show in history, "Ring Talk Worldwide" & RingTalk.com which covers boxing, the UFC/MMA and professional wrestling. He is also a featured monthly writer for the soul music band Tower of Power (TowerOfPower.com)