Norm Frauenheim
Mayweather-McGregor: A license to make money, but not history
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s beginning to look as if Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor are just a few dancing bears away from reaching an...
Hoops or PPV: It’s a tough sell for GGG-Jacobs
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a many-sided fight, loaded with intrigue and potential for explosive surprises at just about every level. But will Gennady Golovkin-Danny Jacobs...
No, No: Boxing biz moves on despite combo that didn’t happen
By Norm Frauenheim-
A couple of things didn’t happen during the last week, neither one much of a surprise and yet both significant for a...
Back To The Future: Leonard Sees It In Thurman-Garcia
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing loves history. It remembers, yet it can’t repeat. Not yet, anyway. I’m not sure it has to. These days, just a...
BJ Flores delivers a stoppage in his heavyweight debut
PHOENIX, Ariz. – BJ Flores is a good talker. He’s known for his commentary. But his identity is still on the dangerous side...
Canelo, Chavez Jr. shake hands, but don’t bet on it
By Norm Frauenheim-
Okay, we’ve all seen it. Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. shook hands on a bet that begs another wager.
Real?
Phony?
Promotional show?
Odds...
BJ Flores ready to make heavyweight move Saturday
PHOENIX, Ariz. – BJ Flores moves up the scale, from cruiserweight to heavyweight, in a fight to re-ignite his career Saturday night at Celebrity...
Business might force Lomachenko to move up the scale
By Norm Frauenehim
Pound-for-pound recognition comes with a lot credentials. But it doesn’t pay the bills. In fact, it often makes a good payday harder...
Nevada Fame: Carbajal voted into the Hall where his fame began
PHOENIX, Ariz. --Michael Carbajal has always been known best for what he did in Nevada. It’s where he staked his first claim on real...
Power Player: Mikey Garcia’s big KO lights up his career
By Norm Frauenheim-
Power speaks for itself. Find it, and a fighter doesn’t need words. He already has the singular answer for nearly every question....
AZ junior-lightweight Abel Ramos back on ShoBox
By Norm Frauenheim-
Abel Ramos is back on ShoBox Friday night on a card in Miami, Okla., for another chance at a minor belt he...
Heavyweight Tales: Povetkin a mystery wrapped in mess
By Norm Fraienheim-
Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko arrived in New York this week for a timely news conference that helped deflect attention on the...
Trilogy Talk: It is inevitable after Santa Cruz beats Frampton in...
LAS VEGAS --Anybody for a trilogy?
It appears inevitable, a third step in a match of styles, personality and culture between two likeable featherweights...
Belfast West: Frampton’s fans jam the weigh-in for Santa Cruz rematch
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – The dateline is accurate. But the feeling was something else. More like Belfast.
Carl Frampton’s fans, Framptonistas, were there,...
Family Fight: Frampton and Santa Cruz fighting each other for the...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – The styles are different. Their neighborhoods are on different sides of the globe. But they fight for the same...
Rematch To Rivalry? Frampton-Santa Cruz II might be that fight
By Norm Frauenheim-
Carl Frampton and Leo Santa Cruz fight on Jan. 28 for a second time, early in a year that might be remembered...
First Bell: DeGale-Jack is the opener in boxing’s fight to get...
By Norm Frauenheim-
The James DeGale-Badou Jack fight Saturday night is a good bout and perhaps the first step in an attempt to hit the...
Rematch or retirement? Ward keeps all options on the table
By Norm Frauenheim
Andre Ward has talked retirement not just once, but at least twice, since his controversial victory over Sergey Kovalev. It sounds like...
Mourning a tough year and hoping for a better one
By Norm Frauenheim-
One year ends and another begins in a couple of days amid regrets and grief from the last 12 months and a...
No Lie: No polygraph needed to ban boxing in Russia
By Norm Frauenheim--
Alexander Povetkin and everybody in his camp were scheduled to undergo a polygraph this week, according to promoter Andrei Ryabinksy, who in...
From common to special, the fight never ends for Bernard Hopkins
By Norm Frauenheim-
Shtick is often strategy and sometimes dangerous. Bernard Hopkins knows that, perhaps better than anybody. He’s been using it like a survival...
Busy Saturday and two big questions precede 2017
By Norm Frauenheim-
The end is near for another forgettable year, memorable mostly for fights that didn’t happen and a controversy still raging over the...
Just say no to more talk of Mayweather-McGregor
By Norm Frauenheim-
Talk, talk and more talk about Floyd Mayweather Jr.-versus-Conor McGregor continue to light up social media these days with no end...
From The East To The Beast: Lomachenko might be the best
By Norm Frauenheim-
The evolution of boxing’s surprising new generation – fighters from the old Soviet Union – continues Saturday with Vasyl Lomachenko, who many...
Ward wins narrow decision in dramatic victory over Kovalev
LAS VEGAS -- Andre Ward delivered. He got stung by punches early. He was down early, on all fours and only canvas looking back...
Kovalev-Ward: Fighting for a classic and an audience
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – On the scale, there was no difference. Not even a fraction of an ounce separated the two. It was...
Andre Ward never forgets the lessons from losses long ago
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Andre Ward has done nothing but win for as long as just about anybody can remember. In fact, it’s...
Ward-Kovalev: Different roads lead to the same place
By Norm Frauenheim-
Only the records are similar, almost identical. Unbeaten on one resume. Unbeaten on the other. But that’s where the similarities end.
...
Senator Champ: Pacquiao takes WBO title from Vargas
LAS VEGAS--Governments across the world are filled with senators who address themselves as honorable. But there's only one who can call himself champ. Meet...
Motivational Chip? Vargas might have one in quest to upset Pacquiao
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – There was enough room on Jessie Vargas’ shoulder for a world title belt when he faced Manny Pacquiao in...
