Norm Frauenheim
Eddie Hearn optimistic about a Joshua-Wilder fight in 2018
By Norm Frauenheim-
LOS ANGELES -- Anthony Joshua promoter Eddie Hearn is confident a Joshua-Deontay Wilder fight for the undisputed heavyweight title can happen in...
Many Fronts: Ortiz just one fight in Wilder’s multi-dimensional campaign
By Norm Frauenheim-
Deontay Wilder, whose powerful right hand is often called his single dimension in the ring, is fighting a multi-dimensional campaign on both...
Putting some punch back into the neighborhood: Carlos Castro wins old-school...
PHOENIX – An old neighborhood got some of its punch back Saturday night.
Carlos Castro and Alexis “Beaver” Santiago put it there with a...
Canelo-GGG: Same address, better fight set for the rematch
By Norm Frauenheim-
Location, location, location. It’s no surprise that the real estate won’t change for the Canelo Alvarez-Gennady Golovkin rematch. The middleweights will pick...
Beltran: A famed trainer introduced the fighter and he’s been fighting...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Emanuel Steward’s impact on boxing endures long after the famed trainer died. He’s been gone for more than five years now. Yet...
Roy Jones the Senior looks back and sees an all-time Junior
By Norm Frauenheim-
Roy Jones, a lot more of a Senior than a Junior these days, walks away and hopefully stays away after what he...
The G.O.A.T: The original is still the only one
By Norm Frauenheim-
Amid all of the hyperventilating, over-eating and hyperbole preceding the annual Super Bowl spectacle, there’s now another reason for indigestion:
The G.O.A.T. debate.
The...
Showtime announces schedule with lots of promise and one big question
By Norm Frauenheim-
It didn’t exactly resemble the NFL’s release of its annual schedule. Then again, nothing remotely resembles boxing.
Still, Showtime tried to put...
Place and Possibilities: Spence hopes to win both with a big...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a fight about possibilities, one to measure where Errol Spence Jr. belongs and another about generating some real buzz for bigger...
David Benavidez promises to knock out the doubts
By Norm Frauenheim-
He’s a prospect and a champion. It’s hard to be both. Perhaps, impossible. But that’s the dilemma for David Benavidez as he...
Twelve predictions for every page in a new calendar
By Norm Frauenheim-
Finally, a new calendar with all of the renewed optimism and good humor that goes with it. Twelve predictions, one for every...
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.
...
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.
...
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...
