Bart Barry
The Mares and Garcia composition
Taken in composite, Mexican Abner Mares and American Mikey Garcia make a quite compelling fighter, and despite competing networks and the promoters that milk...
Four more years: Consequence vs. eventfulness
This will not be a political piece by any means other than its acknowledgement of what tomorrow, known in these United States as the...
Juarez reminds; Leija recalls
SAN ANTONIO – Three miles east of the Alamodome stands Freeman Coliseum in the southwestern part of an enormous lot it shares with AT&T...
Alamo City beat down: Juarez stops Escalante
SAN ANTONIO – Whenever a boxing match can be reduced to a good athlete versus a good fighter, one is advised to bet the...
Erik Morales’ Terrible goodbye
This is not a grateful farewell to Erik Morales. That column happened six years ago, when it was still merited. This, rather,...
The right way
Here’s what happened Saturday. An excellent junior welterweight prizefight scheduled for 10 rounds ended in the seventh. The busier and more effective...
Alvarado-Rios: Redeem yourselves, rid us of pestilence, make a masterpiece
DALLAS – Four miles north of this city’s Main Street District, on Southern Methodist University’s beautiful campus, stands Meadows Museum – a collection of...
Vincent Valdez, and boxing as metaphor
SAN ANTONIO – Five miles northwest of the Alamo stands a remarkable edifice and concept known colloquially as “The McNay,” Texas’ first museum of...
And still . . .
The best writing in Thomas Hauser’s new collection, “And the New . . .” (The University of Arkansas Press; $24.95), barely treats boxing at...
Momento de Maravilla
LAS VEGAS – Only prizefighting, among all sports, is able to induce a vicarious sensation so near to personal tragedy one’s mind, in a...
Martinez decisions Chavez widely after a pair of incredibly close minutes
LAS VEGAS – And in an instant, Martinez-Chavez went from Pacquiao-De La Hoya to Chavez-Taylor.
Not since Manny Pacquiao retired Oscar De La Hoya had...
Chavez upsets Martinez on the scale
LAS VEGAS – The weekend’s first upset happened Friday, and it wasn’t by way of a punch at Thomas & Mack Center. In...
Andre Ward’s hometown: Pleasant surprises and a mean streak
OAKLAND, Calif. – Last week’s fight headquarters were at Marriott City Center in the middle of this recovering town. Friday night Andre Ward...
Andre Ward fights for local fans, and to find more of...
OAKLAND, Calif. – Saturday Andre Ward made the most impressive showing of his career, stopping lineal light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson in round...
Why I’ll be in Oakland this weekend
Saturday evening in Oakland, Calif.’s Oracle Arena super middleweight world champion Andre Ward will defend his title against light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson....
Portrait of a barroom tough’s first visit to a boxing gym
Javier pulls open the matte-gray door and sees the fresh black and yellow paint and so much heat. The gym’s heat is palpable,...
Walking among masterpieces, thinking about failure
FORT WORTH, Texas – Our beloved sport continues its mid-year recess, a deserted time before the mania of September. There were no fights...
Observations about local fight promotion from behind black cocktail dresses
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday saw the return of national figures and national Spanish-language television, Telefutura this time, to the northernmost fraction of Alamodome, a...
Vera decisions Mora by questionably wide scores in South Texas
SAN ANTONIO – If you come to Texas and fight a Texan you have to beat that Texan down. Californian Sergio Mora returned...
A call for military intervention
For a brief time Friday, the hours between the elimination of Team USA’s last male boxer and his reinstatement on appeal, the 2012 Men’s...
Ghost story
Just south of Tucson in November 2007, Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero made the definitive statement of his prizefighting career. Defending an actual world...
Adults gone missing in Cincinnati
Cincinnati’s Adrien Broner (24-0) is not the next Floyd Mayweather. At best, he is New Mayweather, a product that compensates for recent layoffs...
Danny Garcia ruins the Khan game
Philadelphia junior welterweight Danny Garcia was gradually fading against Erik Morales in March. The old Mexican master was coming forward in Houston’s Reliant...
Reevaluating the Filipino Flash
In February local fans attended “Welcome to the Future” in San Antonio’s Alamodome to see how Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would finally fare against...
The “K9” cure
Here’s one more reason to attend fights whenever possible rather than sit complacently on a couch feeling satisfied by a medium that tells you...
Machito time, European girls and blue-raspberry slurpees
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday, Hector “Machito” Camacho Jr., fighting for the first time in 16 months, dropped an overmatched opponent on the red canvas...
Camacho Jr. makes quick work of Charles in La Villita’s Maverick...
SAN ANTONIO – Hector “Machito” Camacho Jr.’s belly might not have been tight as an average prizefighter’s Saturday, but his belly was not the...
Machito time: Hector Camacho Jr. weighs-in
SAN ANTONIO – Boxing aficionados who have long suspected Hector Camacho Jr. was a better fit for a stripper’s pole than a prizefighting ring...
Chavez Jr. and El Paso: Correcting misapprehensions
EL PASO, Texas – Little more than a pitstop on I-10 or a piece of Fort Bliss infrastructure in the imagination of most Americans...
Chavez weighs less than Lee in West Texas
EL PASO, Texas – In what may well prove to be the weekend’s largest upset, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. weighed a quarter pound less...
