Ferdie Pacheco
Ferdie Pacheco is a pharmacist, doctor, boxing analyst, novelist, screenwriter, and artist.
He has worked as a cornerman for 12 boxing champions. In 1977 after a 15-year stint as Muhammad Ali's doctor, he left Ali to begin his work as a boxing analyst for CBS. In 1980 he signed with NBC to do the Moscow Olympics and stayed on for ten years as their boxing consultant and analyst.
He free-lanced with major boxing shows with Showtime-TV, and did Cable-TV with Sunshine/ Prime Ticket-TV, as well as shows in Spanish with Univision-TV.
As a painter, Pacheco is known for his imaginative use of color and design and his aggressive use of vivid, slashing, colorful patterns exude a sense of strength that are bold, gutsy, personal statements of a man who has immersed himself fully in life.