Bart Barry
What the hell just happened in Oklahoma?
By Bart Barry-
Friday at Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Okla., in a match televised by ShoBox between Russian-Oklahoman super lightweight Ivan “The Beast” Baranchyk...
Mastery vs. flow, and a little Mikey Garcia too
By Bart Barry-
For a decade now when you ask a contemporary prizefighter or even just a kid in the gym eight years from turning...
Life is brutal but beautiful: R.A. the Rugged Man’s performance compulsion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Saturday at a livemusic venue called Fitzgerald’s sometime round midnight underground hip-hop artist R.A. the Rugged Man (R.A. Thorburn)...
Son of the Legend to be Cinnamoned: Alvarez-Chavez is on
By Bart Barry-
Friday brought what announcement boxing craves - a superfight! And here it is: May 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas...
Killing pay-per-view: An (unauthorized) oral history
By Bart Barry-
Twenty months after a fight that put boxing pay-per-view in a death spiral, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao - along with their...
The Fight Game in 2017 redux
By Bart Barry-
Apropos of an article about Western languages’ overuse of nouns when compared to Eastern languages’ preference for verbs I dove in the...
2016: Bidding an unpersuasive adieu
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a perfect park not far from the downtown area here, in fact it may well be considered the...
Not-missing Bernard Hopkins already
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a 1/3-full Forum in Inglewood, Calif., handpicked American light heavyweight opponent Joe Smith retired Bernard Hopkins just before Hopkins’ 52nd...
Victory laps and laps: Crawford closes questionful Molina
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Omaha junior welterweight Nebraskan Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0) spiralsnuffed Californian John Molina (29-6) in the eighth round of their match...
An honest prizefight: Gassiev decisions Lebedev in Moscow
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow Russian cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev lost his title by split decision to Russian Murat Gassiev by scores that were...
Oopsie doopsie
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas the runnerup for 2016’s most-anticipated fight featured undefeated Jamaican Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters getting stripped bare in a...
A triumph of sorts: Ward decisions Kovalev barely or not at...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas undefeated American light heavyweight Andre “SOG” Ward decisioned unanimously and narrowly undefeated Russian Sergey “Krusher”...
Ward, Kovalev and the enchanting unknown
By Bart Barry--
Here’s what’s going to happen Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on HBO pay-per-view: American Andre “SOG” Ward will fight Russian...
Playing out the Pacquiao hand
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on UNLV’s campus or thereabouts Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao unanimously decisioned American welterweight titlist Jessie Vargas in a good match that...
Manny Pacquiao: Overstaying the welcome
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Filipino former world champion and current senator Manny Pacquiao matches himself with American...
Chocolatito City, part 5
By Bart Barry-
In Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2014, Roman Gonzalez became the second Nicaraguan prizefighter to become a three-division world champion, putting him deservedly...
Chocolatito City, part 4
BY Bart Barry-
Roman Gonzalez made the sixth and final defense of his light flyweight title on Nov. 17, 2012, at Los Angeles’ Sports Arena...
Chocolatito City, part 3
By Bart Barry-
Round the time of Roman Gonzalez’s 28th prizefight - a March 19, 2011 decision defense of his second world title in a...
Chocolatito City, part 2
By Bart Barry-
On Sept. 15, 2008, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez defeated Japanese minimumweight world champion Yutaka Niida in Kanagawa, Japan, bringing Gonzalez’s first world title...
Chocolatito City, part 1
By Bart Barry-
As 2016 approaches its final quarter still enjoying a fine chance at being remembered like the worst year for boxing in the...
Bull***** at AT&T Stadium
By Bart Barry-
NOT ARLINGTON, TEXAS - Saturday Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez toed the line against former Commonwealth super welterweight titlist, former BBBofC...
Chocolatito: The last compelling reason to watch our sport
By Bart Barry-
Saturday afternoon HBO broadcast the latest episode in its ungainly series of Gennady “GGG” Golovkin feature films against hopeless welterweight Kell “Special...
Remember the Munaitpasov: GolovKanelo promises an unforgettable May
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO - This city is named after a river.
Too, it’s nicknamed after a mission where a battle happened and Davy Crockett...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: To commemorate his 543rd Monday column for 15rounds.com, we asked Bart Barry to interview Bart Barry about the current state...
Outline for a poem called “Olympic Boxing the Din Overwhelms
By Bart Barry
To hike South Texas in the summertime one must rise unconscionably early on a Saturday morning and be at the nearest state...
Liner notes from the song “A Confrontation with Larger Mammals at...
By Bart Barry-
My new friend Sammy and I became friends at a coffeehouse in the Pearl Brewery complex because of our socks or fate....
An end to Andre Ward press releases
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Oakland light heavyweight Andre Ward decisioned a Colombian named Alexander Brand on HBO by scores predictable as they were lopsided....
Enormous gloves: Frampton decisions Santa Cruz
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn a fight for the WBA’s “Super World” featherweight title saw Northern Ireland super bantamweight Carl “The Jackal” Frampton decision...
Terence Crawford may be special, but that sure wasn’t
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a half-full MGM Grand Garden Arena undefeated American junior welterweight Terence “Bud” Crawford dully decisioned Ukrainian Viktor “The Iceman” Postol...
Deontay “1.7x” Wilder
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at the Bartow Arena in Birmingham the reigning Alabama and PBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder discouraged California’s Chris Arreola...
