Bart Barry
Who the hell is Isaac Chilemba and why’s he on HBO...
By Bart Barry-
Sometime soon - or conceivably as you read this - light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev will beat up a South African...
Things to do on Independence Day weekend instead of writing a...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a coffeehouse and bar concept called Halcyon in the south-downtown part of this city called Southtown and what...
Good if not quite timeless: One Time decisions Showtime
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn, Florida welterweight Keith “One Time” Thurman hit Ohio’s “Showtime” Shawn Porter many many times and all over though not...
Thurman-Porter: Trying for enthusiasm
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn in what remains of an anticipated title match for an expiring sport Ohio welterweight “Showtime” Shawn Porter will square...
Interview with San Fernando Gymnasium
By Bart Barry
Originally conducted for the San Antonio Historic Preservation Society in 2012, this interview is reprinted with the gymnasium’s permission.
BB: I sure appreciate...
The obligatory: Muhammad Ali, 1942 – 2016
By Bart Barry-
Muhammad Ali died Friday evening at the age of 74. His death was long anticipated by those who follow our sport...
Southwest boxing roundbench
By Bart Barry-
“By the time the matador enters with his cape and sword, the bull is already swaying sideways and forwards as if at...
The tension into
By Bart Barry-
It finds the men squaredoff and relaxed in their postures from the prebell instructions of their trainers, assurances of their conditioning and...
Into the tension
By Bart Barry--
Arrived too early in their dressing rooms, to satisfy broadcaster’s schedules, and bored, the main event guys do anything to calm themselves:...
Theater of the fully expected
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas lineal middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez wrung Amir “King” Khan’s neck with a single and...
Canelo, Khan and a battle to become the middleweight champion we...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday Mexican super middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will defend the lineal middleweight championship of the world, not to be confused with the...
Column without end, part 14
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 13, please click here.
SAN ANTONIO - Thursday evening in this city’s irreplaceable McNay Art Museum, as part of...
Errol Spence: A good fighter with much potential
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclay’s Center in a PBC match televised by NBC, Texas welterweight southpaw Errol Spence stitchripped New York’s Chris Algieri. ...
Goodbye till the next time, Manny
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at MGM Grand in the first retirement match of his career and second rematch with California’s Timothy Bradley, Filipino welterweight Manny...
Pacquiao-Bradley 3: The first last match
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at MGM Grand in a fight for the vacant WBO International (better than domestic, less than world) Welterweight belt Filipino Manny...
Tuneup II: Ward controls Barrera
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Oakland former undisputed super middleweight champion and current number-one ranked contender for the HBO light heavyweight championship Andre Ward completely...
Crumbling infrastructure, Mile High Mike, The Baby Bull, and Izzy
By Bart Barry-
HOUSTON - In the good times there was a lameness to this city that didn’t make the brochures; places closed early, nothing...
Nostalgia touring Houston
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Arena Theatre in Houston, Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz and “Mile High” Mike Alvarado will return to prizefighting on an UniMás...
How HBO’s statement helps explain Donald Trump’s popularity
By Bart Barry
Wednesday HBO released a statement about Manny Pacquiao’s weeks-old statement about the prizefighter’s interpretation of the Bible’s anticipation of the current LGBTQ...
Expectations met: Crawford stops Lundy
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in New York City, undefeated Nebraska junior welterweight Terence “Bud” Crawford, an HBO fighter, put the sixth blemish on Philadelphian Hank...
Column without end, part 13
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 12, please click here.
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SAN ANTONIO - Very good artists inspire imitation - why so much boxing writing of...
Nostalgia of a sort: Saucedo decisions Booth on UniMás
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in California welterweight Oklahoman Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo decisioned Florida’s Clarence Booth by inappropriately wide scores of 79-73, 79-73, 78-74. ...
To the contrary: In celebration of Oscar and Bob’s competitiveness
By Bart Barry-
About 5 1/2 years ago, I wrote a column that treated Oscar De La Hoya and Todd DuBoef’s tactical use of candor...
Kovalev krushes Koach Freddie, et al
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Montreal’s Bell Centre, Russian light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev beat Haitian-Canadian Jean Pascal till Pascal’s corner told its charge...
Garcia decisions Guerrero in front of exciting legend Floyd Mayweather
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Staples Center, Philadelphia welterweight Danny “Swift” Garcia decisioned Californian Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero by unanimous if narrow scores of 116-112....
On beauty and boxing: New York Times edition
By Bart Barry-
Recently the New York Times published a column on beauty by David Brooks and a long-form piece on boxing by Dan Barry....
To the contrary: Marco Antonio Barrera’s polemical decisions
By Bart Barry-
In only its second week, 2016 promises a paucity of suitable subjects to rival its predecessor. Rather than write 52 columns...
Portrait of 2015’s best knockout, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The May morning of 2015’s knockout of the year, the Saturday Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez...
Portrait of 2015’s best knockout, part 1
By Bart Barry--
The May morning of 2015’s knockout of the year, the Saturday Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez spearchiseled Texan James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland in...
A first-person mosaic of a first PBC experience (from the suite,...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - From a suite at AT&T Center, home of the fivetime worldchampion Spurs, boxing looks like nothing so much as...
