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Article: Pair offers tips for Rivera.(SPORTS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- January 4, 2007
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Byline: Bill Doyle
COLUMN: TUNING IN
If Showtime boxing analyst Al Bernstein were managing things Saturday night in Hollywood, Fla., he'd have World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Jose Antonio Rivera fight inside to unleash uppercuts and avoid getting hit hard, and insist that southpaw Travis Simms not switch to a right-handed style as he has on occasion.
"You really don't want to trade left hooks with Rivera," Bernstein cautioned. "It's just not a good idea."
Bernstein hopes the boxers ignore his advice, however.
"From the fans' standpoint," Bernstein said, "it's better if they fight the opposite way of how ...