Bart Barry
¡Puro Duran!
By Bart Barry
Tuesday the WBC’s official Twitter account posted a picture of Roberto Duran embracing the late Esteban De Jesus, a picture I retweeted...
Why I will be in Las Vegas in April
By Bart Barry
A few weeks back I did something I rarely do: I made plans to attend a Las Vegas fight, Timothy Bradley versus...
Canelo takes El Perro to the pound (and Tony Weeks keeps...
By Bart Barry
Saturday in Las Vegas the redhead anointed by one very powerful Mexican television network as the man most likely to continue his...
Mexican veterans, (former) Soviet newcomers, and autodidacts
SAN ANTONIO – In this city’s Alamodome on Saturday, before Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. could whup Austin’s Bryan Vera and position himself for...
Diaz prevails, Najera entertains, and Saucedo disappoints (somewhat) in South Texas
SAN ANTONIO – Houston lightweight Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz, a former world champion, found across from him in Saturday’s sixth and final off-television match...
Chavez makes weight; Salido looks hopeless
SAN ANTONIO – What may well prove to be the most suspenseful moment of Saturday’s Chavez Jr.-Vera II card happened a day early when,...
The Legend’s Son returns to returning
SAN ANTONIO – Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. returns to this city sometime in the next few days, returns to...
Visiting “Age of Impressionism” while reading “Juan Diaz and the Age...
HOUSTON – Returned to Texas’ largest city and the fourth-largest city in our country, a day before a day we celebrate the father of...
Bling and blast: Maldonado stops Nater after four
SAN ANTONIO – Albuquerque welterweight Fidel Maldonado has the bling – sparkly purple trunks, gold trimmed, matching tights and safety-green boots – and occasional...
Malignaggi gets his Taub
SAN ANTONIO – A small band of boxing media and bystanders gathered Sunday afternoon near an entrance of the Home Depot Center in Alamo...
An adieu to viciousness
The meaningful part of American welterweight “Vicious” Victor Ortiz’s odd career ended Thursday night in an off-Broadway show with an off-Broadway opponent, about seven...
Garcia is ready to be redeemed by Gamboa
Saturday in the little room at Madison Square Garden, Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia made another admirably professional showing, this time in the super featherweight division,...
The Legend’s Son comes back to home (too)
SAN ANTONIO – Thursday, Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. strode across the Alamodome stage to a podium that would conceal,...
Procrastination’s affirmer: Notes from the craft
SAN ANTONIO – This week I began painting glass jugs instead of writing. Reading, socializing, Twitter, documentaries, laundry – all of these, it...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 1
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez in Thomas & Mack Center...
Adam Berlin: The struggle of the art
My introduction to Adam Berlin’s writing came 4 1/2 years ago when he wrote for this site an account of Joshua Clottey’s preparations for...
The Problem, with schadenfreude
SAN ANTONIO – In the weeks to come, it will likely be discovered Adrien Broner suffered from a fatal strain of the deadlywhatever virus...
Broner and Maidana make weight, and Broner promises flat-line
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon in the western part of this city’s downtown area, Cincinnati welterweight Adrien “The Problem” Broner (27-0, 22 KOs) and...
Guillermo Rigondeaux: At the start of an audacious run that might...
Saturday Cuban world champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux reduced Ghanaian super bantamweight and former bantamweight titlist Joseph King Kong Agbeko, no quotes, to an...
Kovalev the thankless kolumn krusher
NEW ORLEANS – If this town is not a traditional place for giving thanks, an American ideal rendered ever more vestigial with each year’s...
Manny Pacquiao as Macau, in Macau
Saturday at Venetian Resort in Macau a passable imitation of Filipino welterweight Manny Pacquiao whacked about American Brandon Rios in a passable imitation of...
The joy of Andre Ward
American super middleweight Andre Ward is the sole prizefighter I routinely review in slow motion, the only active world champion whose subtleties bring a...
Nonito Donaire as fighter
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – There is a gorgeousness to the seashore that is difficult to debase, and yet this town nearly does it, lining...
The “Axe Man” cometh: Nicholas Walters chops down Alberto Garza in...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Jamaican featherweight Nicholas Walters calls himself the “Axe Man,” and in the opening round of Saturday’s final off-television fight,...
A new sort of pressure fighter
Saturday on the small stage at Madison Square Garden, before a crowd of 5,000 – in a city of 8.3 million – a throng...
Golovkin and Stevens, and a battle to test those untested
Saturday on Madison Square Garden’s small stage Kazakhstani middleweight titlist Gennady “GGG” Golovkin will fight American Curtis “Showtime” Stevens, on HBO, in a match...
Mike Alvarado, and the brutal beating administered him by an amiably...
DENVER – Afterwards, when “Mile High” Mike Alvarado, still adorned in throwback-Broncos orange and blue, an egg-shaped contusion over his right eye, claimed he...
Denver destruction: Provodnikov does it the right way in 10
DENVER – Among boxing’s myriad of adages is the one that says you must beat the champ – meaning beat the champ down –...
Alvarado and Provodnikov make weight, and ready to make something sensational
DENVER – The crowd was over capacity at the weighin, and so was light welterweight “Mile High” Mike Alvarado, the hometown favorite. A...
