‘Man of Steel’ Hernandez Returns, Wins in Mexico City
The boxing world has drained the phrase “iron chin” to exhaustion in describing fighters with the ability to withstand massive punches that detonate upstairs on impact.
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Daniel Hernandez: Bulletproof, Motivated, Beating the Odds
By Thomas Gerbasi - It was the conversation no one wants to have in boxing, the one where you tell a fighter and his family that it’s time to hang up the gloves. But as Alex Camponovo, matchmaker and General Manager for California’s Thompson Boxing Promotions, made his way to speak with the family of Daniel Hernandez, it wasn’t discuss a 40-year old journeyman, a beat up pug who was relegated to ‘opponent’ status. Hernandez, 20, wasn’t even there. He was in a hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, left for dead outside a closed industrial clinic after a random shooting, saved only by a quick acting cleaning crew that called an ambulance for him. Seven hours of surgery at Lynwood’s St. Francis Medical Center followed, but the prognosis wasn’t good. If he survived, he would – at best – be partially paralyzed and probably lose his hearing and speaking ability.
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