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Postage Stamp. Twenty of his books have been published. Ferdie Pacheco has been happily married for 42 years to Luisita Sevilla, noted Flamenco artist and photographer. She also manages his art plus, types and edits his manuscripts. They live in Miami and have a daughter, Tina, who is a movie editor. Loading the player There of people there plus the press.

There were mostly ex-boxers and managers all of whom came in the gym.

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None were called to speak. What a shame. What an oversight. Well, it was too much to bear. I wrestled the mike from the young mayor and said: "There is a name missing on the plaque. No one has mentioned him, although the 5th Street Gym was Chris Dundee's gym.

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Angelo would not have been given those 14 boxers to manage had it not been for Chris. Muhammad would not have come to Miami to train. I would not be the Fight Doctor but for Chris Dundee. The forgotten name is Chris Dundee" All the ex-boxers exploded in applause because Chris was the father of us all. He was a beloved figure. How funny that history quickly fades the names of the prematurely dead and makes heroes of the people who happen to survive.

Outlast everyone and you are virtually guaranteed to receive accolades. The 5th Street Gym was born when Chris quit managing champions and began promoting big-time boxing in Miami Beach. Every Tuesday, without fail, Chris put together a representative set of matches. Willy Pastrano, Ralph Dupas, and of course the world start, Ali! Imagine the thrill to the boxing fans to flooded his Tuesday shows, to be able to go up to the rickety stairs to actually see and rub elbows with the boxers all week long the gym was open to the public.

He loved the hurly burly, the hustle the electricity in the air. He lived for big-time boxing. Angelo proved to be a jewel, in time, the best in the world! For 25 wonderful years the 5th Street Gym flourished, then greed and local politics conspired to KO Chris and knock him from his perch.

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He lost the exclusivity, and his rival, won the fight! He knocked out Chris, so boxing died on Miami Beach. The 5th Street Gym plodded on, a haunted house of brilliant memories run by a shadowy ex-champion Beau Jack who sat in his dusty office hearing bells and fighting old fights over and over, throwing jabs in the dusty air. The building was torn down and the 5th Street Gym was no more.

South Beach became a boom town for young kids, German models, actors, party people, and soon, there wasn't a soul who remembered that once upon a time a glittering University of Boxing had existed here. Currently Pacheco was commissioned by Verizon to do major work to illustrate the cover of Tampa 's Yellow Pages, edition. Joe Morrissey of St Louis commissioned Ferdie to paint four large epic battle sequences each twelve feet by six feet and sold for a five-figure price.

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Another commission for the West Tampa library will be installed early His paintings are in the collections of many leading personalities and celebrities such as Andy Garcia, Evander Holyfield, Budd Shulberg. He is an accomplished speaker and was under contract with Pinch Scotch for two years to speak every month on a series of subjects: boxing, art, books, history, and Flamenco dance.

He appeared as an actor, playing himself, in the movie "The Great White Hype. Pacheco was also a long-time boxing television commentator, and the first Spanish interpreter for English speaking boxing broadcasts in the United States. For the next two decades, Pacheco was a noted boxing analyst for several television networks, including NBC and Showtime.

He also became an author and self-taught painter, with most of his works focused on his career in boxing and his youth in the Ybor City neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. Pacheco, a pharmacistand Consuelo Jimenez, both of Spaniard-Cuban descent. Pacheco was raised bilingual, which he would later say was one of the most critical decisions his parents ever made to ensure his success.

Pacheco worked in his father's drugstore, which sparked his interest in medicine. As a teenager, Pacheco was also a waiter at the Columbia Restaurant.