Bart Barry
Timothy Bradley’s fine young consensus
LAS VEGAS – “He seemed to be selling something, as if by not getting knocked-out, he was winning. Odd ending for Bradley. ...
Finding a way: Bradley decisions Marquez to retain welterweight title
LAS VEGAS – Timothy Bradley now has decision victories over two of the very best prizefighters in a generation. The victories may both be...
Bradley and Marquez: Match of those vindicated
HBO’s vastly improved “Face Off With Max Kellerman” franchise, the penultimate episode of which found California’s Timothy Bradley seated at its brushed-steel tabletop with...
The legend’s son prevails
Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. – the man whom middleweight champion Sergio Martinez alternately calls “a lie” and “the lie”...
Return of the legend’s son
SAN ANTONIO – There’s a fine barber shop in the basement of the historic Gunter Hotel in the center of this city’s downtown, it’s...
Three worthy performances at “The One”
Apropos of something entirely unrelated to “The One,” I spoke with Don Turner last week, a delightful man of gradual delivery and enviable authority,...
About “The One” and its other co-main
Saturday boxing fans will congregate for “The One,” a pay-per-view fight card with two co-main events, Argentine junior welterweight Lucas “The Machine” Matthysse versus...
Monday night mildness: Collazo decisions Sanchez in dull affair
SAN ANTONIO – The greatest victory of New York City welterweight Luis Collazo’s career thus far has been a controversial decision loss to WBC...
About “The One” and its co-main
On Sept. 14 boxing fans will congregate for “The One,” a pay-per-view fight card with a main event, Floyd “Money” Mayweather versus Saul “Canelo”...
Jhonny and Abner, Leslie and Glenn
Saturday in Carson, Calif., Jhonny Gonzalez floored Abner Mares with a left-hook lead in the third minute of their featherweight title match then stopped...
A relenting pursuit of Juan Diaz’s relentlessness
LAREDO, Texas – Saturday at this city’s Energy Arena brought nothing unexpected, and perhaps 1,000 or so spectators, with the red corner going 6-0...
Diaz (Baby) Bulls his way to stoppage victory over De Jesus
LAREDO, Texas – A small but committed group of partisan-Mexican fight fans gathered to see how real Juan Diaz’s comeback was in its second...
To Laredo for the Baby Bull: Another homage to 2009’s fight...
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday at Laredo Energy Arena, about 150 miles southwest of here, Houston’s Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz will make a 10-round match...
Prizefighting, Saunders, damages, vulnerability, graciousness
Most American prizefighters are damaged necessarily, damaged from taking others’ fists and hopes, damaged by youthful experiences that guided them through amateur boxing’s comparative...
Figueroa and Arakawa, humility and volume punching
SAN ANTONIO – I like to think I write quickly, finding words within the readymade template, lede to nut to quote to body, that...
Undercard results from “Knockout Kings II”
SAN ANTONIO – The largest reaction of Saturday’s “Knockout Kings II” undercard came before its fourth and final off-television match, when lanky San Antonio...
Omar Figueroa, “Knockout Kings II” and the Rio Grande Valley
SAN ANTONIO – The promotional posters for “Knockout Kings II” that arrived in some writers’ inboxes these last few weeks were different from the...
“The Good Son” is great stuff
“The Good Son,” an online preview of which I watched Saturday evening, froze two times at its 35-minute mark. The first time I...
An evening with The One
SAN ANTONIO – Monday round 6:00 PM a large crowd awkwardly gathered round a stage awkwardly situated in the plaza that precedes Misión San...
Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin: Good, giving and game
Kazakhstani middleweight titlist Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin wears his initials and nickname on the waistband of his trunks, often in gold blocks, and inadvertently titillates...
Broner, Malignaggi, and the pleasure of seeing each get hit in...
Saturday in Brooklyn two of prizefighting’s reliably unlikable personalities spent 36 minutes punching one another, much to the delight of those who watched them...
Garcia, Lopez, Bearden and resilience
DALLAS – Thirty five miles due west of American Airlines Arena, where Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia unpicked Puerto Rican Juan Manuel Lopez Saturday, there is...
Early Results From Dallas
DALLAS – If this city’s partisan-Mexican crowd came out Saturday to see one of its own blast away a rugged but overmatched opponent in...
Un-cancelled: Garcia misses weight, Lopez does not
DALLAS – Once considered a model young professional, the quintessence of what a proper boxing pedigree could produce, California featherweight Miguel Angel “Mikey” Garcia...
Her vengeance unassured
She sets her left foot slightly in front of her right and tries to keep them a shoulders’ width apart, whatever that means, and...
Froch and Kessler, gentlemen and consensus
In round 6 of their super middleweight match, Saturday, Englishman Carl “The Cobra” Froch and Dane Mikkel “Viking Warrior” Kessler briefly got separated by...
The Machinery of enthusiasm
“Yes, right,” said Argentine Lucas Matthysse in Spanish, Saturday, when asked if he next wished to fight junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia. “For that...
Un-forgiving Lamont Peterson
To return to aficionados’ better graces, Saturday Lamont Peterson must perform a stern act of contrition at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, one from...
A Mayday in September
Saturday heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko knocked out a 240-pound Italian named Francesco Pianeta, and few in the United States without an internet connection...
Martinez and Datsyuk: The erosion of reflex in great figures of...
DALLAS – The career of middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will not end any better than our sport ends its every practitioner’s career, and that...
