Bart Barry
What happened when I treated my next two columns like Kelly...
By now you’ve read the press release about my Monday column, the one that was to be a workaday review of Kelly Pavlik’s comeback...
Alvarado, Pavlik, and Top Rank loyalty
Colorado’s Mike Alvarado successfully continued his comeback Saturday. Ohio’s Kelly Pavlik will successfully continue his comeback Saturday. Top Rank continues to promote...
Khan, Judah, and our AAA rating
Englishman Amir Khan will never fail to look unbeatable against an opponent who considers contact optional. If you are a prizefighter who relies...
A pox on the stereotypes
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. – Contrary to stereotypes about South Texas, held by the rest of the country, yes, but also other Texans, this city...
Palate cleansed
Boxing insiders will forgive David Haye. Many of us have already. What he did some Saturdays ago against Wladimir Klitschko, the ballsy...
Well, that was futile
In the moments after two contemporary prizefighters meet at a press conference to question each other’s class, family, sexual orientation and all the rest,...
Alamo City surprise: Lujan levels Melligan
SAN ANTONIO – Fight fans looking for the next southpaw sensation to come out of the Philippines, someone to play heir to Manny Pacquiao,...
Alternate endings to a fight boxing badly needs
We all knew Wladimir Klitschko was a chinny smart guy who took no unnecessary shots and worried openly about what might happen if the...
We demand more “Cinnamon”!
“Give us more of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez!” we cry. There, was that enthusiastic enough? It’s part of a new scheme to explore....
Encounters with “Chicanito”
By now you’ve read reminiscences of Genaro Hernandez from men who knew him far better than I did. Some covered his matches, others...
Super Six, Carl Froch, and the joy of not knowing
The greatest joy of Showtime’s Super Six tournament has been one of discovery – a joy that makes anything worth playing audience to. ...
Falling in love with Carl Froch
Prizefighting now draws near to completing its most innovative concept in ages. Showtime’s Super Six World Boxing Classic is days from matching its...
Hopkins, a legend, squashes the haters
Apropos of my own irreverence last week, 15rounds.com’s indispensible editor Marc Abrams addressed the consequences of Saturday’s fight thusly: “A man winning the lineal...
“Wearing ‘West Point ‘03’ on my trunks”
It should surprise no one that boxing is a plebe-year requirement at the United States Military Academy. West Point’s ultimate purpose is to...
Unfit for prime time
There is a time of the year in professional golf when the four tournaments collectively known as “the majors” are finished, the Ryder Cup,...
Sweetness that overcomes the sour
There are prizefights that begin with one participant looking so confident and establishing such a superiority of craft that you wonder if this mightn’t...
Things to do while you’re in L.A.
LOS ANGELES – To live in this city one must be pathologically optimistic. It is a machine designed to do wondrous things but...
No butts about it: Darchinyan dominates Perez
LOS ANGELES – An accidental collision of heads happened as Vic “Raging Bull” Darchinyan charged Yonnhy Perez in the fifth round of their consolation-cum-main-event...
Darchinyan and Perez make weight; Agbeko and Mares are missed
LOS ANGELES – Friday afternoon on the second floor of the never-ending JW Marriott Hotel in the middle of downtown, last-minute main-event bantamweights Armenian...
Agbeko-Mares and the pursuit of authenticity
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday night as the HBO fights were getting under way, an enormous event happened here in the downtown area. Fiesta...
A Terrible difference
A suspicion was confirmed Saturday. No, it wasn’t the suspicion we all harbored about Erik “El Terrible” Morales’ shopworn frailty. Morales’ comportment...
Leaving a light on for “Lights Out”
There are some differences between writing for a boxing website like this one and writing for a sports website with a boxing page, like,...
Solis remembers while Top Rank corners
It was almost four years ago this week that Mexican Jorge Solis sat in Pico de Gallo restaurant, sipping menudo. Pico de Gallo...
Resisting the reactionary after a showcase weekend of misses
If there was a theme from last weekend – and you’re right to shake your head; there probably wasn’t – that theme might be:...
A marvel while it lasts
This is one of the more authentically enjoyable rides we’ve been on, isn’t it? Sergio Martinez, a man humble outside the ring as...
A future sprinkled with Cinnamon
Marco Antonio Barrera has warned us about cases like Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. No, not by name – the way Juan Manuel Marquez...
Passing a test and enjoying some class
SAN ANTONIO – So you think you love boxing, eh, just can’t get enough of all that action and drama leavened by brutality? ...
Few suspicions linger about Donaire, one suspects
Some boxing aficionados were suspicious of Nonito Donaire’s talents during the promotion of the young Filipino’s fight with Mexico’s WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel....
No cupidity on Valentine’s Day
This will be about Marco Antonio Barrera’s continuing journey through prizefighting, inspired by its form. If you’re no longer interested in Barrera, this...
Los Angeles in April rather than Las Vegas in May
In March we journeyed to Arlington, Tex., to see Cowboys Stadium’s first prizefight, one featuring Manny Pacquiao. In November we returned to Arlington,...
