Fernando Guerrero’s American Dream Continues
By Thomas Gerbasi - It’s another fight, another phone number for Fernando Guerrero, but it’s a small price to pay when you’re the most popular young man in Salisbury, Maryland. “Who told you that,” laughs the affable middleweight prospect, who headlines tonight’s ShoBox event at the Wicomico Civic Center against Michael Walker in his adopted hometown. It’s his fifth pro bout in the friendly confines of home, and in one of boxing’s great stories of recent years, he’s become like Joe Mesi in Buffalo, Cory Spinks in St. Louis, or Paul Spadafora in Pittsburgh – a local kid who can pack local venues and make people from every walk of life care about the sport again – hence the necessity to switch phone numbers that get blown up by ticket requests before every bout.