Norm Frauenheim
Happy New Year? Four reasons to hope for one
By Norm Frauenheim-
A promising year ends, but the promise will go as stale as cheap champagne if fights we talked about in 2017 don’t...
Forget The Rest: 2017 will be remembered for Joshua-Klitschko
By Norm Fruenheim-
It’s been a year full of lots of things.
Full of it, perhaps, if 2017 will be remembered for the spectacle-over-substance display of...
On the Move: Crawford’s jump takes him up scale and to...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a move up, on the scale and to the top of the ballot.
Terence Crawford’s bid to own next year opens with...
Lomachenko, Rigondeaux to test each other and the state of the...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing loves comebacks and it looks as if a business always reported to be dying might be poised to make another one.
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Gold Road: This time it’s for money instead of medals
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s historical for the continuum that Vasily Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux represent. Four gold, two each, at four Olympics over 12...
End of the Beginning: A New Year looms amid promising signs...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Three notable fights over nearly five-and-a-half weeks between now and a New Year are the end of what might be another beginning.
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Goodbye doesn’t sound like a temporary gesture from Cotto
By Norm Frauenheim-
His face is the portrait of a fighter. It’s a mix of stoicism and toughness. There’s an unblinking gaze that says he...
Back In The USA: Kovalev hopes to put a Russian thanks...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s hard to know what Sergey Kovalev knows about Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday. But he fights a couple days after Turkey...
Soto Karass knocked through the ropes, but not ready to say...
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – It was a tough way to say goodbye, so tough that Jesus Soto Karass might want to try it...
Let’s Get Ready To Negotiate: Joshua-Wilder on the table with back-to-back...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Nobody needs to announce “let’s get ready to negotiate’’ before Saturday’s Carlos Takam-Anthony Joshua fight in the UK and the Bermane Stiverne-Deontay...
Hall Of Fame voting: Morales, Vitali Klitschko at the top of...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Erik Morales and Vitali Klitschko are at the head of the 2017 class on the ballot for inductions to the International Boxing...
Nothing junior about 154 anymore
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s one of those hyphenated divisions once lost amid the proliferation of them. Call it light, Call it junior. But don’t call...
Heavyweights still the Ho-Hum division
By Norm Frauenheim-
Wladimir Klitschko retired only two months ago. I’m already starting to miss him.
The more the heavyweights change, the more they stay the...
Re-energized pound for-pound debate full of possibilities
By Norm Frauenheim-
Andre Ward’s surprising retirement, Roman Gonzalez’ sad defeat and the scorecard controversy still brewing over the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez draw is re-energizing...
Wild Ride: Valdez wins tough decision
TUCSON, Ariz. – Oscar Valdez Jr. wanted to please a crowd that had traveled from his birthplace in Mexico and to the U.S. city...
Second Home: Oscar Valdez Jr. back in Tucson with another promise
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – Oscar Valdez Jr. is at home, his second home, with a promise as a priority.
In his last trip...
Controversy wins all over again in GGG-Canelo draw
LAS VEGAS – The business wanted a party. Wanted to celebrate. But all it can do today is to try to explain away another...
CaneloGolovkin: The Buzz Is Back
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Finally, a fight with a buzz.
It was there, loud and clear, Friday in a way that could be...
CaneloGolovkin: One loss, many lessons could be a key difference
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez has something Gennady Golovkin doesn’t want: A loss.
In a time and place when unbeaten often means...
Canelo-GGG: Saying little, promising a lot
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – There’s not much left to say, not that Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez have ever had a whole lot...
All In The Family: Another Benavidez fighting to become youngest ever
By Norm Frauenheim-
David Benavidez wants to do what his older brother has already done. To wit: Make a little history. As a noteworthy accomplishment,...
Two fights, two very different legacies
By Norm Frauenheim-
The canvas and ropes will be the same. So will the arena. Only a couple of ounces will separate the gloves. Two...
More fight than farce as Mayweather stops McGregor
LAS VEGAS – In the end, only the spectacle was memorable. The fight was forgettable. Yet in the end, it was indeed a fight...
Cheers for McGregor, boos and most of the bucks for Mayweather
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS –The beat went on -- and on -- Friday in the parade to an event that looks and sounds more...
Mayweather-McGregor: Lots of money, lots of questions, few answers
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – The Strip is kind of the ultimate fantasy camp. Only the hangovers are real. Everything else is about it...
Chaos Eclipse: Crawford-Indongo a rare moment when boxing’s bodies will align
By Norm Frauenheim-
Unity and boxing are an unlikely complement. Link them in the same sentence and you’ve got something that looks, feels and sounds...
Hall Of Friendship: Nevada Hall turns old infamy into famous friends
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Memories, laughs and even a few tears were there. But there was no bitterness. No punches either. The fifth...
De La Hoya says fans know the difference between what’s real...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Oscar De La Hoya isn’t losing any sleep worrying about whether the potential pay-per-view audience for Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin on Sept. 16...
Back to the Future: Carbajal in Vegas for Hall of Fame...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Michael Carbajal is back in the city where his fame began.
Carbajal, who got up from two knockdowns for...
Righteous Retirement: Wladimir Klitschko picks the right time to say goodbye
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s time for a change and he knew it. As always, Wladmir Klitschko did the right thing.
That’s how he’ll be remembered in...
