Bart Barry
The prestidigitation
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, in the best fight of May 2015, so far, American Floyd “Money” Mayweather easily decisioned Filipino...
The big payout
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, before a crowd likely to comprise not one person reading this column, American Floyd Mayweather finally...
Truth and Beauty: Crawford, Piano, Khan, Provodnikov and Matthysse
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FORT WORTH, Texas - This is not the city where Terence Crawford fought Saturday. But it is part of an enormous thing...
Everyone’s ‘Bud’: Crawford obliterates Dulorme
ARLINGTON, Texas - It is said a fighter becomes 20-percent better upon winning a world title. Undefeated junior welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford...
Without Premier: Bud, Rocky and Machine
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Saturday brings a cleansing of the palate, doesn’t it, a reminder of a painfully missed time when you watched boxing because you...
Gabe Oppenheim, and one of the last good books about boxing
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“If you’re gonna write about boxing, you need facts and grittiness and maybe even some awkward bad writing. It can’t be perfect....
Gary Russell Jr, and the end of cable sports journalism
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Saturday, Showtime’s preternaturally gifted Gary Russell Jr., an Al Haymon fighter, knocked-out the hardest puncher in Mexican history, Jhonny Gonzalez, on Showtime,...
Column without end, part 7
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Editor’s note: For part 6, please click here.
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BURNET, Texas - We begin here, again, with a thought experiment of sorts, before hiking...
Of Soviets and athletes
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SAN ANTONIO - If you’re reading this column, it is highly probable you watched on HBO Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev’s Saturday reduction...
Vargas ruins Tomlinson in eight
SAN ANTONIO - A sparse crowd gathered Thursday night at Freeman Coliseum, located beside the stadium in which the world champion Spurs play, and...
Premieres
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SAN ANTONIO - Tuesday at Aztec Theater, the oldest theater in this old city, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and James Kirkland announced their...
Column without end, part 6
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Editor’s note: For part five, please click here.
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But how will this influence resolve itself?
Three of the most influential artists of the 20th...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: It’s OK to be happy
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The announcement came sometime Thursday, or maybe Tuesday, the announcement there would be an announcement coming soon from a professional athlete about...
Column without end, part 5
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Editor’s note: For part 4, please click here.
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It is a question of competence much as intent.
That is where boxing now stumbles in...
Column without end, part 4
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Editor’s note: For part 3, please click here.
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Another week comes to pass in the decisive erosion of public interest in our sport....
For an article about Mike Tyson, click here
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SAN ANTONIO - This column was supposed to be about a live theatrical performance by Mike Tyson, a review of sorts from...
Retired: Juarez loses to Castellanos and calls it a career
SAN ANTONIO - Rocky Juarez spent his career being an honest prizefighter who never quite found within himself a transcendent performance when the occasion...
With Mile High Mike as my mentor
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Ring the bell already, fool.
I’ve written so many great columns in the past. That’s why you read me. And I’m more prepared...
Deontay Wilder, and an aficionado’s permission slip
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Saturday in Las Vegas, undefeated American heavyweight Deontay Wilder saw his 32-fight knockout streak come to a quiet end against Bermane Stiverne....
Column without end, part 3
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Editor’s note: For part 2, please click here.
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MARFA, Texas - This city sits in a little known region of our country called...
Portrait of HBO’s most-viewed fight of 2014, part 2
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Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The week that began in February, ended in March and became the pinnacle of HBO...
Portrait of HBO’s most-viewed fight of 2014, part 1
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The week that began in February, ended in March and became the pinnacle of HBO boxing’s viewership feats in 2014 began on...
Column without end, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Part 1 can be found here.
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Every kid under the age of 25 on the Metro de Madrid has Sergio Martinez’s...
Column without end, part 1
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BARCELONA - At the metaphorical center of this autonomous place on the Mediterranean Sea, an ostensibly Spanish city much nearer France than...
Terence Crawford, and optimists and evangelists
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Saturday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraskan lightweight champion Terence Crawford decisioned Mexican Raymundo Beltran lopsidedly, 119-109 and 118-110 and 119-109, in...
Full gonzo: Sleeping through Pacquiao-Algieri
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The understated perfection of architect Louis I. Kahn’s soft marble masterpiece, Kimbell Art Museum, known round the world...
Pacquiao-Algieri: From opposite ends
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Saturday at the Venetian in Macau, Filipino Manny Pacquiao will defend his welterweight title against New Yorker Chris Algieri, a junior welterweight...
Kovalev-Hopkins: The fight of 2014
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The most unexpected thing shared by guys who hit hardest is rarely how hard they hit or the speed of their attack....
Mental alignment, Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev
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SAN MARCOS, Texas – Three miles southwest of Texas State University is a mostly waterless stretch of terrain called Purgatory Creek Natural...
MFAH & GGG: Enduring doubts
By Bart Barry-
HOUSTON – Saturday this city’s largest art museum previewed for its members a fall exhibition, “Monet and the Seine,” that is unimpressive....
