Bart Barry
They can’t all be Izzy and Rafa
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
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
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
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
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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...