Bart Barry
Harmonious manhood: Nicholas Walters, Nonito Donaire and Corey Holcomb
By Bart Barry--
HOUSTON – Saturday at Carson, Calif.’s StubHub Center, a great fight venue with a moronic name, Jamaican featherweight Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters...
The Axe Man cometh
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., in a co-main event broadcast by HBO and certain to be more entertaining than what...
Jhonny, El Travieso, and Devil’s River
By Bart Barry--
DEL RIO, Texas – A few miles south of here begins the Mexican state of Coahuila, and about 40 miles north of...
Canelo Alvarez, cable networks, and learned helplessness
By Bart Barry-
Another game changer happened Tuesday. It came with a series of email announcements and a conference call and probably a press conference,...
Travel box and away
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SAN ANTONIO – Saturday night I attended “Jazz’SAlive,” a two-day, free-admission jazz festival in the newly restored Travis Park, which abuts St....
An old Floyd is not the old Floyd
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in a rematch few aficionados demanded, fewer still watched, and fewer yet found entertaining as its...
Mayweather-Maidana 2: Circus of the sagging big top
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Saturday at MGM Grand, over which a 20-story Manny Pacquiao banner likely will not drape, American welterweight Floyd “Money” Mayweather will make...
When a quest for great spectacles leaves boxing behind
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FORT WORTH, Texas – There was a fight card in my hometown Saturday night, and I didn’t hesitate for a tick to...
Another afternoon press conference for a local card
By Bart Barry--
The temperature in the parking lot is a reminder just how badly abused is the word “sweltering” by Americans anywhere above of...
Prizefighting’s blurrily expressed intimacy
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A couple years ago, apropos of violence and documentaries and Pablo Picasso, too, a writer whose work I admire mentioned in a...
Henri Matisse, and absorbing the lessons of predecessors in a way...
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SAN ANTONIO – This city’s largest art museum, SAMA, is now in the throes of a three-month exhibition, “Matisse: Life in Color,”...
Sergey Kovalev, and the genuine possibility of being Krushed by an...
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Saturday in Atlantic City in another hideous but portentous mismatch on HBO, Russian light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev raced through a...
GGG: Golovkin Gores Geale / Good Going Guys
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“Geale had the best credentials of anyone that’s gotten in the ring with him. Geale is a former two-time titlist.” – Gennady...
The Soviets are coming
By Bart Barry-
Saturday begins an eight-day Soviet-boxing siege on HBO.
No, you’re right, “siege” is more than a bit over the top, and the Soviet...
Anything, please, but a rematch!
By Bart Barry-
When Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fought countryman Alfredo Angulo in March, I attended a viewing party at the home of a Puerto...
Saul Alvarez: The cinnamon reckoning of an American promoter and a...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, home of Floyd Mayweather’s entranceway shrine, Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will make a pay-per-view match with...
Terence Crawford: Ratified with a smile
By Bart Barry-
After nine years of sitting ringside at Top Rank shows – my first media credential came from Lee Samuels, in April 2005...
In celebration of 0s that went
By Bart Barry--
“Looks like in the next year or two, he is going to be a threat for any featherweight champion.”
The quote above belongs...
Chris Algieri: Mind over massacre
By Bart Barry-
Two Saturdays ago in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden our sport bade a tempered farewell to former middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, squinting at...
Adiós, Sergio, con un abrazo fuerte
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If we choose to believe all was well with Argentine southpaw Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez’s lower body when the opening bell rang on...
Carl Froch: Into the breach
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Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium British super middleweight titlist Carl “The Cobra” Froch stood before 80,000 of his countrymen, and across from...
Carl Froch, and the art of unjustifiable self-belief
By Bart Barry-
In a “Gloves Are Off” prefight conversation more entertaining than a highlight reel of every eerily scored “Face Off with Max Kellerman”...
Juan Manuel Marquez: The definition of a prizefighter
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Saturday at the newly reopened Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Mexican “Dinamita” Juan Manuel Marquez and Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado engaged in...
Austin: Gallery Tour and Mandingo Warrior
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AUSTIN, Texas – Somewhere round here, likely on currently gentrified streets once mean, James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland roamed and terrorized sparring partners...
Marcos Maidana: Unplanned-for, undissuaded
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After their Saturday welterweight match at MGM Grand, American Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana proffered a study in...
Mayweather-Maidana: A master’s secrets to making Money
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Saturday American Floyd “Money” Mayweather will fight once more at MGM Grand, this time with Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana, in a...
Bernard Hopkins’ alien charm
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What if Michael Jordan came back tomorrow, at age 51, and won an NBA championship with, say, the Washington Wizards for whom...
Pacquiao-Bradley 2: Settling scores
By Bart Barry-
LAS VEGAS – Having scored the first match between American Timothy Bradley and Filipino Manny Pacquiao the wrong way from ringside, I...
Return to the scene of a “robbery”
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, not Macao, undefeated American welterweight Timothy Bradley will make a rematch of his...
A Krushing konclusion to a bad year’s worst week
By Bart Barry
Quick, off the top of your head, name the contracted terms of Sugar Ray Robinson’s rematch with Jake LaMotta in 1943. ...
