Bart Barry
Oleksandr Usyk – our wonderful secret
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in England undefeated Ukrainian southpaw Oleksandr Usyk defended his trove of cruiserweight world titles - Ring, WBA, IBF, WBC, WBO -...
Unfortunate sympathy’n the Super Series
By Bart Barry-
Saturday brought yet another delightful multihour multiplatform celebration of a sport even weekly columnists feared might die four years ago (Pacquiao-Algieri, for...
Second-lining: The WBSS parades through New Orleans
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN, boxing’s now-essential network, the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series super lightweight tournament happened in New Orleans. ...
The Saturday mashup
By Bart Barry-
Three broadcasts Saturday, and nothing that happened was quite great and some was very good but everything was at least good, and...
Orthodox / southpaw: Enjoying Crawford-Benavidez from different angles
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - “How many services must one rent monthly to watch a championship prizefight?” went my thoughts Saturday from an apartment...
Naoya Inoue and a pox on pandering henceforth
By Bart Barry-
Sunday morning on DAZN Japan’s Naoya “The Monster” Inoue performed the feats of scoring his second knockout as a bantamweight and completing...
Callum Smith: Whupping George Groves, giving the Yanks a helpful juxtaposition
By Bart Barry-
Friday in an excellent conclusion to the World Boxing Super Series’ excellent first season, super middleweight edition, England’s Callum Smith stopped England’s...
Another splendid showing by AJ
Bart Barry-
Saturday world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua once again filled a gigantic football stadium and successfully defended his multitude of titles by knocking silly...
The greater man won
By Bart Barry-
“The war’s over. It’s over. I saw it on television. I saw it on TV.” - Conrad Brean, “Wag...
Late blood, no knockdowns: Porter decisions Garcia effortfully
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn welterweight “Showtime” Shawn Porter outworked Philadelphia’s Danny “Swift” Garcia for the WBC’s suddenly coveted iteration of a 147-pound...
Labor Day: Essay, email, list, query, interview, counterpoint, speech, About us,...
By Bart Barry-
There is ever much thought given to layers and how they might best be created in a thing linear as the written...
A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Gila River Arena in the greater Phoenix area Ghanaian super bantamweight titlist Isaac Dogboe raced through Japan’s Hidenori Otake in...
Column without end, part 17
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 16, please click here.
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QUITO, Ecuador - No telling where this’ll head as its teetotaler writer’s synapses get tickled...
Krummy: Moving on from Krusher Kovalev to expressions of euphoria
By Bart Barry-
Sundays like these you spend wondering if this will be it, the last Sunday, the one when the words or at least...
Mikey Garcia goes linear
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles in a match that unified lightweight titles without undisputing them Mikey Garcia outboxed Robert Easter and decisioned him...
Turkish delight: Usyk unmans Gassiev on Tivibu Spor
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk became the first unified cruiserweight champion of the world since Evander Holyfield, pitching a 12-round...
Arguably the greatest ESPN+ fight in history
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on the ESPN+ app Filipino Manny Pacquiao smelted Argentine welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse in Malaysia. Saturday on no app whatever...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, parts...
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: A year ago, bereft of ideas for his weekly column, Bart Barry interviewed himself again about the state of the...
Saucedo-Zappavigna: A sacrificial sheep made into a ram
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN in Oklahoma City junior welterweight Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo made an adopted-homecoming match against Australian Leonardo "Lenny Z" Zappavigna...
Pride in great male writing about men
By Bart Barry-
This is not a trigger warning but a preamble. What follows is a consideration of fantastic writing about men, the sort...
The Truth is . . .
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Almost exactly 300 miles north of here Saturday welterweight titlist Errol “The Truth” Spencer strolled through an overmatched Mexican...
Terence Crawford is wonderful
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ Nebraska’s Terence Crawford won his first welterweight title the right way. He beat to relenting titlist Jeff Horn,...
Things to do this Saturday
By Bart Barry-
Three fights happen across nine timezones Saturday in a crescendo of sorts before boxing’s summer ritual ends much of our fun. Going...
Mashing it up with my new app
By Bart Barry-
I was up before dawn Friday morning to begin the day for 20 minutes before I remembered I was up to watch...
Who I was cheering for, and why?
By Bart Barry-
One doesn’t know when the urge to experimentalism will strike but one learns indulge it until he learns not to (many efforts...
Vasyl Lomachenko: A one-punch indictment, a 10-punch justification
By Bart Barry-
Ukrainian prizefighter Vasyl Lomachenko and his promoter Top Rank accomplished something pretty extraordinary Saturday when Lomachenko stopped lightweight champion Jorge Linares with...
Column 676
Bart Barry-
A genuine pursuit of greatness is not exasperating. It may be breathtaking or ridiculous or sobering or exhilarating, but it may not...
An infomercial for an infomercial for a . . .
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on an HBO telecast from Brooklyn middleweight mandatory challenger Danny “Miracle Man” Jacobs dropped and decisioned Polish junior middleweight Maciej “Certainly...
Adrien “About Thousands” Broner, but still about 13 of them
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center overweight Ohio junior welterweight Adrien “About Billions” Broner lost a majority draw to Jessie “The Pride of Las...
Sunday breakfast with Ryota “HHH” Murata
By Bart Barry-
ESPN2 broadcast a middleweight title fight between Japan’s Ryota Murata and Italy’s Emanuel Blandamura at 0800 ET on Sunday morning. Right...
