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They can’t all be Izzy and Rafa

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By Bart Barry- Thursday in the co-comain event of a Super Bowl week fightcard broadcast by DAZN from a shady Miami venue called Meridian at Island Gardens...

Compelled to dissolve compulsion

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By Bart Barry- SAN ANTONIO – In the center of this city there’s a Greyhound bus station.  In the center of most U.S. cities there’s a Greyhound...

J Rock’s swing in the Banana hammock

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center in a super welterweight title-unification fight broadcast by Fox, Dominican slugger Jeison “Banana” Rosario beat-down Philadelphia’s Julian...

Carolina blue / Alamo red

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By Bart Barry- CHARLOTTE – This city is its state’s largest by quite a bit, and some years ago the Associated Press offended Charlotteans, if not all...

Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 2

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By Bart Barry- Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here. * Cowboys Stadium be an immense edifice and not until you are suspended in its gravitational force,...

Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 1

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By Bart Barry- We were back at Cowboys Stadium in March to see two of the world’s best prizefighters scrap with one another in a captivating...

Fighter of the Decade: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr

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By Bart Barry- And our king returned on the final days of the decade to save us.  Exiled 31 months since a highpaying debacle of a battle...

The erosion of Bud Crawford

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a fight for the ESPN welterweight title Nebraska’s Terence “Bud” Crawford stopped Lithuania’s Egidijus “Mean Machine”...

Just awful

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By Bart Barry- Saturday on DAZN in a rematch of a wonderful June title fight, Anthony “AJ” Joshua decisioned lopsidedly Andy “Destroyer” Ruiz by scores nobody should...

Bring us more fun!

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By Bart Barry- GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Sunday nights at Arena Coliseo, downtown, are noches familiares (family nights) when the lucha libre begins at 6:00 PM local time. ...

Good as it gets

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By Bart Barry- Thursday at Super Arena not far from Tokyo, Japan’s Naoya “The Monster” Inoue decisioned “The Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire to win WBSS’ bantamweight tournament...

Exactly as scripted

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at MGM Grand in a light heavyweight title fight broadcasted by DAZN, Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez discombobulated Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev in the...

Trafficking in honesty: Taylor decisions Prograis

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By Bart Barry- ATLANTA – Traffic shapes your view of everything here, and you’re not ready for it.  You’re a medium-city guy who hails from one and...

I voted for Israel Vazquez simply because he is my favorite...

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By Bart Barry- Sometime last week or the one before, the ballot arrived for this year’s International Boxing Hall of Fame election.  It had too many...

A new question of geometry: Usyk attritions Witherspoon in heavyweight

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By Bart Barry- Saturday in Chicago, 2018’s best fighter, Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, made his first-yet heavyweight prizefight against former American contender Chazz Witherspoon on DAZN, the aficionado’s...

The first underrated performance of the GGG canon

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a prizefight broadcast on the aficionado’s network, DAZN, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (no new ‘i’ needed; we go with...

The Truth is . . . Benavidez remained Saturday’s most intriguing...

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at Staples Center welterweight titlist Errol “The Truth” Spence split-decisioned “Showtime” Shawn Porter and unified the WBC and IBF titles in an entertaining...

Spence-Porter: Benavidez’ll steal Errol’s show again

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By Bart Barry- Saturday on a “FOX Sports is proud to present PBC Pay-Per-View events” event in Los Angeles welterweight titlists Errol “The Truth” Spence and “Showtime”...

Fury-Wallin fightweek: Thank heavens for Andy Ruiz

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By Bart Barry- Latenight Saturday on ESPN+ lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will defend his strapless title against an undefeated 28-year-old Swede named Otto Wallin, a man...

Lumbering tardily onto the Lomawagon

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By Bart Barry- Saturday a Thames riverboat ride east of London, one of the world’s five best prizefighters, Ukrainian lightweight Vasiliy Lomachenko, outfought Yorkshire’s Luke Campbell to...

Raw good: Estrada stops Beamon in Sonora

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By Bart Barry- Saturday in Hermosillo’s practically named Centro de Usos Multiples, Sonora’s Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada made a harder-than-planned first defense of his Ring super...

Column without end, part 19

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By Bart Barry- Editor’s note: For part 18, please click here MEXICO CITY – Beautiful is a word I didn’t think to associate with this city...

A thrilling act of violence: Ramirez razes Hooker in Texas

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By Bart Barry- Saturday in a junior welterweight title-unification match broadcast by the aficionado’s network, DAZN, California’s Jose Ramirez stopped Texan Maurice Hooker midway through a wonderfully...

That One Time Keith Thurman faced a true champion

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By Bart Barry- Saturday on Fox PPV in a match for the PBC’s emeritus welterweight championship at MGM Grand undefeated titlist Keith “One Time” Thurman got dropped...

This won’t be the One Time we get surprised by Keith...

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By Bart Barry- Saturday on Fox Sports pay-per-view Keith “One Time” Thurman defends his WBA “Super World” welterweight title against Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao in...

Column without end, part 18

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By Bart Barry- Editor’s note: For part 17, please click here SAN ANTONIO – This city’s McNay Art Museum, which has figured heavily (for an art...

A column with a lot of potential

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By Bart Barry- There were recent fights aplenty with which a grateful boxing writer might fashion a column, and this writer should be grateful as any, writing...

A monkey, a flea, and the real meaning of Mexican Style

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By Bart Barry- Friday on a Golden Boy Promotions card that DAZN broadcast from Indio, Calif., super featherweight titlist Andrew “El Chango (The Monkey)” Cancio...

Elbows up, lads: The WBSS delivers us more violence

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By Bart Barry- Saturday at Arena Riga in Latvia in a pair of prizefights broadcasted by DAZN the World Boxing Super Series arrived at its cruiserweight-finals pairing...

An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, 2019

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By Bart Barry- Editor’s note: In what has become an annual tradition, Bart Barry ran out of ideas for his column.  So we suggested he interview...