Bart Barry
We begin the Peter Nelson Era
“Mechanism-based approaches are generally dangerous. The problem is that the goal of such studies is mimicry rather than true understanding, and these studies...
Insipidity’s end: Tyson Fury acquires sport’s crown jewel
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Saturday in Germany, England’s Tyson Fury became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world by decisioning Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko by official scores...
Teasing the strippers: Canelo becomes lineal middleweight champion of the world
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Saturday at Mandalay Bay, Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez widely decisioned Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto to become the lineal...
Canelo-Cotto: Slightly more than an eliminator for the HBO middleweight championship
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Saturday at Mandalay Bay, Puerto Rican middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will swap blows with Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in a...
Bradley, Atlas and Rios: What’s a good metaphor for embellishment?
By Bart Barry
Saturday in a Thomas & Mack Arena that was not sold out, American welterweight Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and his new trainer,...
Hershman, Bradley and Rios: Finally an honest prizefight
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Saturday at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center, American welterweights Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios will compete for a world title of some...
Disorder to diminishing returns: Terence Crawford and boxing’s downward spiral
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Saturday in Omaha’s CenturyLink Center, in what was probably another attendance record of some prepositional sort - in October, against a French...
Chaotic beauty
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"The only way to predict (the result) after a given number of iterations is to actually perform them. This is the ‘hell’...
Promotional marching from GGG to TBE
By Bart Barry
I didn’t get through the first five minutes of “Face Off: Golovkin / Lemieux.” It’s not because the format is awful,...
Frozen machinery
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Saturday at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., undefeated Ukrainian junior welterweight Viktor “The Iceman” Postol stopped favored Argentine Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse...
In real time: Wilder bludgeons Duhaupas
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Saturday in Birmingham, Alabamian heavyweight Deontay Wilder brought la ruine to Frenchman Johann Duhaupas, stopping him in round 11. What follows is...
Column without end, part 12
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Editor’s note: For part 11, please click here.
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“Paradoxically, it is in the core administrative and entertainment districts of European cities, be it...
Good riddance, Floyd
By Bart Barry
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, American Floyd Mayweather decisioned American Andre Berto in a historically awful match Mayweather promised will be...
Mayweather-Berto: Nobody cares
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Just in time for Mexican Independence Day weekend comes a showdown to warm cada corazon mexicano: Floyd Mayweather, an American from Michigan,...
Violent middlings: Santa Cruz decisions Mares
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Saturday on ESPN in a PBC main event that happened at Staples Center, Leo Santa Cruz decisioned Abner Mares. The fight was...
Column without end, part 11
By Bart Barry
Editor’s note: For part 10, please click here.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - This Andean city hasn’t Medellin’s organization or courtesy but a more amiable...
Column without end, part 10
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part nine, please click here.
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These columns are written to spiral outwards from their centers organically as possible, structures from...
Brooklyn’s magic castle awash in swift tides or so Rosie said
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Saturday in Brooklyn, Philadelphia welterweight Danny “Swift” Garcia laid waste to the remnants of Brooklyn’s Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi in a PBC...
The disappointment of BJ Flores
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“Potential remains potent if unused.” - James Wood, “Late Bloom”
Saturday in a small theater at Palms Casino in Las Vegas, in a...
Greatness willed: A farewell to Carl Froch
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Last week British super middleweight Carl “The Cobra” Froch announced his retirement, ending an unusually fine contemporary prizefighting career on an unusually...
Luis Collazo: PBC Employee of the Month
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Saturday at a local coffee shop I watched the PBC main event I’d already covered five days before it happened (I was...
Bad, yes, but probably not bad enough: Thurman stops Collazo in...
By Bart Barry
TAMPA, Fla. - Saturday in University of South Florida’s acclaimed Sundome, Florida welterweight Keith “One Time” Thurman stopped Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo in...
Delayed meritocracy: Kings of the Mic and Timothy Bradley
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DALLAS - Four miles southeast of this city’s downtown center stands Gexa Energy Pavilion, a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater whose stage Friday hosted...
The talented, the untalented, and the Nipsey Hussle
By Bart Barry
Saturday on BET, American super middleweight world champion Andre Ward made his much-needed return to boxing, stopping in the ninth round a...
The Axe Man goeth
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Saturday in Madison Square Garden Theater, the very place Filipino Nonito Donaire’s candidacy for HBO Fighter of the New Century was subverted...
Remember the Cinnamon: Alvarez wrecks Cotto in Alamo City
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“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages...
Column without end, part 9
By Bart Barry
Editor’s note: For part eight, please click here.
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CARLSBAD, NM - This town is an overpriced outpost on the border of two western...
Column without end, part 8
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Editor’s note: For part seven, please click here.
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San Antonio Museum of Art currently features a retrospective exhibition of works by American painter...
Dung beetles and Chocolatito: Small, extraordinary creatures
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SAN ANTONIO - While hiking Saturday morning I came across my first in-action dung beetle, a needly faced creature pushing a smooth...
Hit by the Cinnamon stick
By Bart Barry
HOUSTON - Minute Maid Park, home of the Astros, made a fine fight venue, even, or perhaps especially, when its retractable roof...
