English "Bouie" Fisher, the Philadelphia trainer who guided Bernard Hopkins for most of his career, including to the undisputed middleweight championship, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 83. Fisher was a mainstay of the Philadelphia boxing scene for decades. Although he worked with many fighters during his long career, he is best known for training Hopkins. Fisher took Hopkins, an ex-convict with an 0-1 professional record, under his wing in 1989 and helped lead him to a middleweight title in 1994. With the quiet Fisher manning his corner, Hopkins would go on to become the undisputed 160-pound champion in 2001 when he won promoter Don King's Middleweight World Championship Series by outpointing Keith Holmes in the semifinals. He then delivered a tour de force in the final -- a 12th-round knockout of favored Felix Trinidad. Hopkins' win against Trinidad was the crowning moment of Fisher's career. His relationship with Hopkins, however, would not last. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=6726511
