Fernando Pacheco Jimenez, M.D. (1927 – 2017) known publicly as Ferdie Pacheco, was a Cuban-American physician. He was the personal physician and cornerman for world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali as well as numerous other boxing champions.
Ferdie Adoboe is a Ghanaian athlete who set a Guinness World Record in 1983 for running backwards. He is also a practitioner of speed juggling, the act of kicking a soccer ball in the air as many times as possible in a short period of time.Adoboe lobbied Guinness World Records to establish a world record for speed juggling and in 1999, he set the first record at the Ft Lowell Shootout in Tucson, Arizona, by recording 136 touches in 30 seconds and 262 in one minute.[citation needed] He would later speed juggle a soccer ball 141 times in 30 seconds on The Today Show on Aug. 27, 2003.Adoboe has held two speed-related world records[failed verification], with a 100m time of 13.6 and a calculated 100 yards time of 12.7, both set on 25 July 1991.