Norm Frauenheim
Bam: Next step up about to open up for Jesse Rodriguez
By Norm Frauenheim
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez’ rocket-like rise in the pound-for-pound debate and overall name recognition comes with a lot of risk, including the inevitable...
Canelo-Crawford: A fight turning into an event
By Norm Frauenheim
Netflix and Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium are sure signs that Canelo Alvarez-versus-Terence Crawford is transforming itself into an event, bigger than just...
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.’s arrest leaves lots of questions
By Norm Frauenheim
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.’s arrest on charges of being in the United States illegally just days after a loss to Jake Paul...
Conflict In The Ring and Out: Vasiliy Lomachenko retires
By Norm Frauenheim
Vasiliy Lomachenko, complicated and gifted, announced on Thursday what many had expected months ago. He retired.
Age was a factor. He’s 37. Injuries, including...
Pacquiao raising inevitable questions with his second comeback
By Norm Frauenheim
Few great careers are complete without a risky comeback or two and, sure enough, 46-year-old Manny Pacquiao is poised to made a...
Inoue back and anxious to remind America about his dynamic skill set
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS -- Naoya Inoue stood on the scale like a politician on the bully pulpit Saturday in his first American appearance in about...
Composed Ryan Garcia begins another fight to answer questions
By Norm Frauenheim
It was a different Ryan Gracia than the one who shocked, outraged and frightened throughout a long-running social-media ride to hell-and-back a...
Canelo-Crawford: Interest builds as odds continue to favor Canelo
By Norm Frauenheim
Date and place remain uncertain, but exploding interest in Canelo Alvarez-versus-Terence Crawford six months before a projected opening bell is already evident...
Off and On: Canelo’s reported plans take him to Crawford, then...
By Norm Frauenheim
Surprise, surprise, the Canelo Álvarez-Terence Crawford fight was off. Then, faster than flipping a light switch, it was back on. For the...
David Benavidez: The Monster Roars
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS — Two days before opening bell, promoter Tom Brown promises violence. Minutes later, David Benavidez says enough to enrage David...
Naoya Inoue: On the road and in search of more of...
By Norm Frauenheim
Naoya Inoue’s astonishing career continues without any apparent limits.
There are 10 straight knockouts, 22 in title fights. There are four titles in...
Good, Bad and the Stupid: A look back and a hopeful...
By Norm Frauenheim
Say goodbye to the good, bad and the stupid. 2024 was a lot like so many other years on boxing’s roller-coaster ride...
Usyk2Fury: Repeat or rewrite?
By Norm Frauenheim
Oleksandr Usyk, never a man of many words, has had even fewer this week, just days before a sequel that has all...
Jaime Munguia makes plans for a New Year by staying busy
By Norm Frauenheim
Busy is a vanishing fundamental in boxing these days, although likable Jaime Munguia continues to practice the old-school art-form this week with...
A Picasso for Naoya Inoue?
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX — Plans for Naoya Inoue’s return to the United States next spring already include a possible opponent.
Mexican David Picasso, an artistic...
Next Up? Rafael Espinoza fighting for possible shot a Valdez-Navarrete winner
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX — Rafael Espinoza is in line for a possible shot at the Oscar Valdez-Emanuel Navarrete junior-lightweight winner if he beats Robeisy...
Benavidez-Morrell: Something real after the carnival
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s the first significant fight in a New Year. That’s mere coincidence, but it’s also appropriate.
David Benavidez-versus-David Morrell on February 1, formally...
Tyson-Paul: Netflix is the sure winner in an exhibition full of...
By Norm Frauenheim -
Mike Tyson has been making a fool out of himself and just about everybody around him for decades. Maybe, he’ll...
New Deal: Boxing hopes for one as Bam Rodriguez embarks on...
By Norm Frauenheim
He’s a little guy about to embark on a second chapter, also a significant one with the potential to be the biggest...
Common Sense? There is none in acronym’s threat to strip Beterbiev
By Norm Frauenheim
An old line is as current as ever this week because of the acronyms, which continue to prove that the only thing...
Artur Beterbiev lets his perfect record speak for itself
By Norm Frauenheim
Power and perfection define Artur Beterbiev. Truth is, that’s about all we really know about him. The two elements are linked like...
No Knockout: Canelo goes the distance, scores decision over Berlanga
By Norm Frauenheim (Ringside)
LAS VEGAS --On the scorecards, there was no upset.
But in the court of public opinion, there was a big one.
From pillar...
Canelo-versus-The Prince: A fight to become the Face of Boxing
By Norm Frauenheim -
Canelo Álvarez, who often acts like a Prince, and Turki Alalshikh, who is one, are engaged in a contentious face-off, emphasis...
Crawford looks at Madrimov with eyes full of more than mere...
By Norm Frauenheim -
LOS ANGELES — It was a ceremonial weigh-in, which is another way of saying it was phony. But there was nothing...
Jesse Rodriguez: Putting the Bam into the pound-for-pound debate
By Norm Frauenheim –
Jesse Rodriguez, whose simple nickname is synonymous with his power in the ring, is putting some of that Bam into the...
Bam! Jesse Rodriguez scored seventh-round KO
By Norm Frauenheim and David Galaviz
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Only SuperFly could crash the top of the pound-pound debate.
Jesse Rodriguez did that and maybe more with...
Bam-Estrada: Two little guys poised to put the Super into Fly
By Norm Frauenheim -
PHOENIX, AZ -- On the scale, there was no difference between them. Not even a single ounce.
In a weigh-in that...
Bam-Estrada: A Fight of the Year possibility
By Norm Frauenheim -
PHOENIX, AZ -- Eddie Hearn foresees the Bam Rodriguez-Juan Francisco Estrada bout Saturday night as a potential Fight of the Year,...
Bam Rodriguez sees a rival in an old idol
By Norm Frauenheim -
PHOENIX – Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez once looked at Juan Francisco Estrada and saw an idol
Now, he sees a rival.
“The first...
Canelo answers the challenge, remains the face of Mexican boxing
LAS VEGAS--The face of Mexican boxing has aged.
But it hasn’t changed.
It’s still Canelo, now bearded, yet still proud and stubborn That inexhaustible streak of stubborn pride...
