Bart Barry
The funniest men on the planet
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a fight
broadcast by DAZN, statuesque world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and misshapen
challenger Andy Ruiz made quite...
The academy adapts: David Epstein’s “Range”
By Bart Barry-
Tomorrow, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” (Riverhead Books) by David Epstein, author of “The Sports Gene”, will become available...
WBSS: At long last, something true
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Scotland the World Boxing Super Series held the final semifinals matches in its bantamweight and super lightweight divisions, and they...
Emanuel Navarrete beats the white towel out of Paul Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in the comain of an ESPN broadcast from Tucson, Mexican super bantamweight Emanuel Navarrete successfully defended his WBO world title by...
Some Cinnamon dust for boxing’s B+
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas Saul “Canelo” Alvarez further unified his undisputed status as world’s best middleweight by narrowly if unanimously decisioning IBF...
A blessed return to competitiveness
By Bart Barry-
After two weeks of exhibitionist fare boxing returned Friday and Saturday to competitive and excellent matches, excellent for being competitive. Or...
Late Prosperity: Welcome to the Khan game, Bud
By Bart Barry-
ZAPOPAN, Mexico – This is a place that looks like Guadalajara on a map but like Chapalita right next door holds itself...
Master hypothesis: Divining the hypothetical winner of a hypothetical fight for...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday morning (ET) once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight prodigy Vasiliy Lomachenko unconscioused Anthony Crolla before long in Los Angeles. Saturday night undefeated welterweight...
Lomachenko and Crolla are not El Paso club pros, and it’s...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight titlist Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko will successfully defend his title against Britain’s Anthony Crolla on ESPN+...
A partially pandering attempt to reach a new readership via KingRy
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in the mainevent of a Golden Boy-promoted and DAZN-broadcasted card from Indio, Calif., undefeated American lightweight Ryan “KingRy” Garcia (2.3m followers,...
The Truth will set you expensive: Spence edges Crawford at Purses...
By Bart Barry-
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages...
All else failed, lead with your chin
By Bart Barry-
ARLINGTON, Texas - Saturday in the middle of AT&T Stadium in the middle of the DFW metroplex welterweight titlist Errol Spence beat...
Oh the controversy: Shawn “Fox Sports” Porter decisions Yordenis Ugas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Carson, Calif., American welterweight titlist “Showtime” Shawn Porter decisioned Cuban Yordenis Ugas by controversial splitdecision scores in an uncontroversially dull...
Preview of Spence-Garcia, part 1 (of one)
By Bart Barry-
Soon undefeated welterweight Texan titlist Errol Spence will defend his IBF belt against undefeated lightweight Californian titlist Mikey Garcia at AT&T (formerly...
Flunking the Tijuana exam
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in a prizefight between formerly good lightweights matched 15 pounds and nearly so many years past their primes Mexican...
Reign of indiscriminate blows
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Outside the coffeeshop where this effort happens Nature is entirely mixed-up, leafless branches beside trees suddenly in bloom beside...
Andrew Cancio in a better league: DAZN delivers
By Bart Barry
Saturday in California on a surprisingly rich card of mostly anonymous fighters (outside the Golden State anyway) DAZN and Golden Boy Promotions...
Krusher’s mean regression to the mean
By Bart Barry-
Saturday or Sunday on ESPN+ Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev decisioned Colombian Eleider “Storm” Alvarez in Texas to reclaim one of the titles...
Swinging at superfluousness
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Not even a threehour drive from where this was written, Saturday night at Houston’s Toyota Center Mexican super welterweight...
Swindle, young man, swindle!
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on a Showtime pay-per-view broadcast for the gullible and nostalgic Filipino great Manny Pacquiao decisioned American mediocre Adrien Broner by unanimous...
Hatin’ on AB
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Showtime Pay-Per-View Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao looks to avenge his 2015 loss to Floyd Mayweather by shoving his left fist...
2018 Corpus cumbia, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
Local politicians say San Antonio is the fastest growing city in the country, which may...
2018 Corpus cumbia, part 1
By Bart Barry-
2017’s end-of-year romp, a mosaicked effort about Chocolatito’s abrupt plunge from boxing’s apex, brought an examination of conscience that lauded what salutary...
Jermell, Jermall and a problem of timing
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn on Fox, in the debut of a new business model by which the PBC receives money for presenting its...
Heading home in South Texas
By Bart Barry-
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A mile south of American Bank Center stands the Selena Memorial, known as Mirador de la Flor. ...
El Zurdo serves for the win in South Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Their first match in 2017 was close and controversial. Their rematch was closer but less controversial.
Friday at American Bank...
Remembering to forget
By Bart Barry-
More historic happenings, Saturday, more unforgettable things you’ve already forgotten, more unbelievable events you believe completely. At New York’s Hulu Theater...
Scorecards: I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U?
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles two heavyweights battled for a significant part of the world championship and surpassed expectations en route to a...
Wilder-Fury: Serious analysts need not apply
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles undefeated 6-foot-9 Brit Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury will toe the line with undefeated 6-foot-7 American Deontay “The...
Good for Maurice Hooker, good for boxing
By Bart Barry-
Friday night in Oklahoma, Saturday morning east of there, undefeated Dallas junior welterweight Maurice Hooker successfully defended his WBO title by stopping...
