| | Al Bernstein, the voice of ESPN boxing since 1980, is a renowned analyst who occasionally fills the blow-by-blow role on the network's weekly Top Rank Boxing series.
Bernstein also reports from the sites of virtually all major championship fights for ESPN's SportsCenter, and narrates and writes the script for most ESPN boxing specials.
Besides his ESPN work, Bernstein provides analysis for closed-circuit championship fights. He also served as analyst for NBC's boxing coverage at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Bernstein was chosen Boxing Illustrated's 1994 Commentator of the Year. Previously, he made Sport magazine's "Top 100 in Sports" for 1990 -- the only television commentator chosen, was the World Boxing Association's Outstanding Boxing Commentator of the Year in 1989, received the 1988 Sam Taub Award from the Boxing Writers Association of America, and was the Rocky Marciano Foundation's 1993 Broadcaster of the Year.
Bernstein has written for both KO Magazine and The Ring, was contributing editor for Boxing Illustrated in 1978-80, and had Boxing for Beginners, an instructional and historical book, published in 1978. While editor for Lerner Publications in Chicago from 1971-80, Bernstein won the Chicago Newspaper Guild Award in 1975 for The Best News Story.
Bernstein made his motion picture debut in November 1986 in Streets of Gold, and appeared in Rocky V and the HBO mini-series Glory Days. He sings on stage in Las Vegas, released his first album entitled "Al Bernstein...My Very Own Songs" in November 1987, and is working on another entitled, "I've Never Been to Nashville."
Bernstein is a western movie aficionado who competes in celebrity rodeo team-penning competitions with his horse Sunset Matt.
Bernstein was born September 15, 1950.
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