Bart Barry
Cinnamon selling Cinnamon
SAN ANTONIO – Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is a better fighter than he appears on television, which is an ironical development given how desperately...
Cinnamon-sprinkled ferocity: Canelo decisions Trout
SAN ANTONIO – Saul “Canelo” Alvarez was supposed to be a heavy-footed stalker who would either grind Austin “No Doubt” Trout in the canvas...
Real / Surreal: Alvarez and Trout make weight at Market Square
SAN ANTONIO – At the corner of San Saba and Commerce Streets, in the middle of whose closed intersection the weighin for “Canelo Vs....
Canelo (-Trout), and (Natalie) Merchant, and grace
FORT WORTH, Texas – The hardest part about this thing we do is not, as novelist Philip Roth once put it, that everything must...
Alvarado-Rios III: Onwards to Mile High City
Shortly after prevailing by an unlikely decision in his rematch with California’s Brandon Rios, Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado told Rios, a man in...
Rios-Alvarado II: A deposit in Cash-out City
Saturday, California’s Brandon “Bam Bam” Rios will make a rematch with Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado of the second-best fight of 2012, a relentless...
Remembering (for) Timothy Bradley
American welterweight Timothy Bradley was knocked-out at 2:33 of round 1 by Russian Ruslan Provodnikov, Saturday at Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. ...
What will they say about what we said about Timothy Bradley?
Saturday Timothy Bradley, inactive since decisioning Manny Pacquiao nine months ago, will return from exile to defend against Russia’s Ruslan Provodnikov the burnt-maroon WBO...
Canelo is coming. Is this city ready?
SAN ANTONIO – While there is no promotional formula for rising from small and local shows to large and national ones, there is perhaps...
Omar Figueroa wins main event redeemed by local talent
SAN ANTONIO – When your main event is a joke, the undercard better be filled with punch-lines. Fortunately for Golden Boy Promotions and...
Icy catharsis: “A fight is a fight”
DALLAS – While the aficionados who peruse this column were dutifully enduring a first collaboration of Mayweather Promotions and Showtime, Saturday, one that worked...
Here’s The Problem
This is how Saturday ended after Adrien “The Problem” Broner defeated Gavin Rees by corner stoppage in the fifth round.
Max Kellerman: “You beat the...
Prodigy and mastery in a postmodern world
HOUSTON – At this city’s Museum of Fine Arts is a historic exhibition called “Portrait of Spain” that is historic, in part, because of...
Quiet time
On a bench beside the black metal steps to an elevated ring sits a semitransparent and well-gnawed gumshield with a lemon-yellow frontispiece and several...
Post-abstract realism: Fernando Botero and Lucas Matthysse
The opening minute of Saturday’s main event on Showtime, Argentine junior welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse versus American Mike Dallas, showed such a disparity of...
Garcia and Golovkin: The mysteries continue
We came to the moment for which we assembled, Saturday, the telling collection of intervals, two predecessors succeeded by the aptly named championship rounds,...
Golovkin and Garcia, showcases and trial horses
The June day Manny Pacquiao lost to Timothy Bradley began with a media breakfast in the airy, open interior of Wolfgang Puck Bar and...
Reading Burke, thinking about Martinez-Chavez
“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of...
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec....
Portrait of 2012’s most excellent week, part 1
The moment Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez took Filipino Manny Pacquiao’s consciousness with a right cross on Dec. 8 brought a series of instants affecting...
Portrait of 2012’s most interesting week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The night American Timothy Bradley decisioned Manny Pacquiao to become only the second man to beat the...
Portrait of 2012’s most interesting week, part 1
The night American Timothy Bradley decisioned Manny Pacquiao to become only the second man to beat the Filipino in 13 years concluded a week...
Praising continuity, recognizing achievement, bidding farewell
HOUSTON – Three miles southwest of Toyota Center, where junior featherweight world champion Nonito Donaire took Mexican Jorge Arce’s consciousness with a third-round left...
EARLY RESULTS FROM HOUSTON
HOUSTON – The Toyota Center undercard ended on a decisive note with impressive Oklahoma City welterweight prospect Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo beating down Utah...
“Mas vale tarde que nunca”
LAS VEGAS – The keyboard of this laptop is covered in papery brown pistachio skins and shell dust. There’s a black plastic bag...
Thunderstruck: Marquez knocks Pacquiao cold in round 6
LAS VEGAS – The definitive end of the Manny Pacquiao Era came Saturday. It came in an act of sudden, precise violence. ...
Pacquiao weighs more, Friday, but Marquez looks bigger
LAS VEGAS – It was not particularly eventful, far as these things go – two muscular men stripped to their underwear, stepped on a...
From theater, the unexpected
I did not expect to look forward to this week’s fourth match between Filipino Manny Pacquiao and Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez. I submitted...
As the pendulum swings: Reappraising Robert Guerrero
Television, a medium silly as it is ubiquitous, tells very few truths and perhaps none disinterestedly. In keeping with its current place in...
Adrien Broner: Adjustment required
Saturday at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City Adrien Broner fought the man aficionados asked him to fight, WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco, a southpaw...
