Norm Frauenheim
Pacquiao-Thurman: A title fight and battle to regain identity
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a fight hard to pick, mostly because Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman are welterweights fighting to recreate themselves or perhaps re-discover...
Fury-Wilder II: Fury is already winning the preliminary rounds
By Norm Frauenheim-
Reviews continue, days after Tyson Fury sang his way to a second-round stoppage over an unknown German in what was more of...
No Fury Necessary: Instead, Tyson Fury promises a show and delivers...
LAS VEGAS -- It began with Tyson Fury walking down the hallway toward the ring looking ominous. He was dressed, all...
Weigh-in Show: Tyson Fury goes to the scale twice, first for...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Show Tyson Fury an empty stage and it won’t stay empty for long. He’ll fill it, all 6-foot-9 of...
Tyson Fury back at a work on one plan that emerged...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – He is named for a fighter who these days is remembered for some wisdom about how vulnerable a plan...
GGG: No matter how you spell it, Golovkin re-enters the ring...
By Norm Frauenheim-
The name is little bit different. The corner is a lot different. Whether the differences add up to a reinvented fighter are...
Andy Ruiz Jr. makes history with stunning upset of Joshua
NEW YORK – History and hype. The first was made by Andy Ruiz Jr., the first heavyweight champion of Mexican descent. The second was...
Heavyweight Blues: Joshua hopes to knock them out in a place...
By Norm Frauenheim-
The heavyweights, bigger than life in fact and fiction, are hard to judge. That’s another way of saying nothing much at all has...
Dangerous Equation: A Pacquiao victory over Thurman puts the 40-year-old Senator...
By Norm Fraunheim-
He’s been Pac-Man and Congressman. Honorific titles and belted ones are all part of his resume. He been called just about everything,...
Wilder and Wilder: Deontay’s threats to Breazeale hard to hear, hard...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Deontay Wilder has more words than punches.
At last check, the words are rocking the social-media landscape. Wilder has been all over...
Rematches more of the same for Berchelt and Navarrete
TUCSON –The card was dubbed Twice As Nice. Nice for the Winner. Nightmarish for the losers.
Miguel Berchelt and Emanuel Navarrete picked up where the...
Rematch Test: Berchelt’s rising star depends on how he does in...
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON – Miguel Berchelt has heard all of the talk. It has him fighting pound-for-pound contender Vasiliy Lomachenko one day. It has...
Royal Rematch: Isaac Dogboe in fight to restore a lost crown
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON – Isaac Dogboe, whose African ancestry is at the root of his Royal Storm nickname, is learning kings don’t last long....
Canelo tightens monopoly on middleweight crown with decision over Jacobs
LAS VEGAS -- It’s all about business. Canelo’s business, which these days is beginning to look a little bit like a monopoly of the...
Canelo-Jacobs: Finally, some buzz gets shoved into the fight
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – A fight in need of a buzz suddenly got some.
Daniel Jacobs literally shoved some buzz into the proceedings...
History Lesson: It’s all part of a process for the student...
By Nprm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez likes to talk about history. But don’t look for the kind forever carved in ancient marble. Canelo’s...
Jacobs back in Vegas for a possible Fight of Year after...
By Norm Frauenhenim-
Daniel Jacobs is back in Las Vegas to fight for the first time in nearly a decade. Vegas has changed. But the...
Pay-Per-View Proof: Terence Crawford tests his popularity versus Amir Khan in...
By Norm Frauenheim-
In a quick-moving debate, it’s Terence Crawford’s turn to do what Vasiliy Lomachenko did last week. Guess here is that Crawford will...
Lomachenko still seeking a cutting-edge test for his artistry
By Norm Frauenheim-
There’s something singular about Vasiliy Lomachenko. That’s another way of saying there’s nobody else quite like him. His unique skillset is often...
Empty Frame: Fight is on to be Face of the Game
By Norm Frauenheim-
It can be scarred. It can be friendly. Scary, too. Sometimes, it’s a booking photo.
It’s the face of the game.
It’s...
Who’s Talking? If it’s Spence-Crawford, everybody is
By Norm Frauenheim-
Bob Arum threw a rhetorical combo this week, intriguing because of the timing and significant because it further heightened talk about a...
Pound-for-pound, Spence-Crawford is at the undisputed top of this wish list
By Norm Frauenheim-
It was a disappointing fight. A significant one, too.
Within the ropes, there’s really not much to say about Errol Spence Jr.’s...
The Truth: Errol Spence Jr. proves to Mikey Garcia that he...
ARLINGTON, Tex. --Truth is stitched in red across the waistband.
It’s no lie.
Errol Spence Jr. delivered truth in a jab, power and quickness again and...
Tale of tape favors Spence, but crowd chants for Mikey Garcia
By Norm Frauenheim-
ARLINGTON, Tex. – Home is where the chants are.
At least, that’s what Mikey Garcia hoped he was hearing Friday at AT&T...
Fighting Family: It’s David Benavidez’ turn in comeback bout back for...
By Norm Frauenheim-
ARLINGTON, Tex. – It’s been a journey that has taken a father and his sons from Phoenix to southern California to Omaha...
Angry Winds: Spence says Garcia could be facing “a one-sided massacre”
By Norm Frauenheim
ARLINGTON, Tex. – Errol Spence Jr.’s poker face and impassive eyes reveal nothing. His body language says nothing. But there was a...
On & Off The Scale: Spence has the odds and pounds;...
By Norm Frauennheim-
It’s not exactly David-versus-Goliath, but it might feel like it to Mikey Garcia when confronted by Goliath-like odds stacked against him in...
Wilder-Fury: Interim bouts are real risk to a rematch
By Norm Frauenheim-
Interim can mean just about anything. Interim is a way station, or a stop to nowhere, or a euphemism for forget-about-it. In...
Furious talk about Tyson’s Fury deal is taking the dormant out...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Tyson Fury’s surprising deal with ESPN and Bob Arum’s Top Rank as co-promoter is generating further talk about a division that not...
Joshua’s American debut in June just one piece in an undisputed...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Anthony Joshua’s American debut on June 1 was formally announced this week, 55 years after the Beatles landed at JFK in February...
