Norm Frauenheim
Surprise, Surprise: Canelo-Khan might include many
The Canelo Alvarez -Amir Khan bout on May 7 has been cheered, booed, hyped, ridiculed, praised and trashed in the days since Oscar De...
Pascal hits Kovalev with an accusation as old as boxing
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing’s ugly history repeated itself, warts and all, with Jean Pascal calling Sergey Kovalev a racist in the final news...
Baby Steps: Jarrell Miller takes a big one
TUCSON -- Sometimes, even babies have to grow up.
Jarrell Miller, who calls himself Big Baby, began to gain some grown-up experience Friday...
Farewell or Fight On? Pacquiao discovers that it’s hard to say...
By Norm Frauenheim-
There is no good way to say goodbye to boxing. Manny Pacquiao is trying to. At campaign stops in New York and...
Miller says he’s the Big future in the heavyweight division
By Norm Frauenheim
He calls himself Big Baby. But don’t let the nickname fool you. This baby doesn’t cry. Jerrell Miller only boasts.
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Happy Birthday: In a week full of legendary ones, the heavyweights...
By Norm Frauenheim
Six days after George Foreman’s birthday, four days after Joe Frazier’s birthday and the day before Muhammad Ali’s birthday, the...
Post Klitschko: Crowd gathers in Fury aftermath
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s hard to know whether the search for the next great heavyweight will ever end. Generation after generation, from baby boomer...
Howard Davis Jr.: Boxing loses the friendly face of a bygone...
By Norm Frauenheim
A difficult year got a lot tougher in its final week. Howard Davis Jr. died.
Davis’ death Wednesday after...
Money, money, money: $igns of an empty 2015
By Norm Frauenheim
Bankers, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, a handful of promoters and network executives can celebrate a year about to enter the...
Possibilities: Nicholas Walters just another one as Top Rank moves into...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Top Rank’s December agenda has been about finding new stars, resurrecting a couple of old ones and creating business possibilities in...
Valdez storms into world-title contention with third-round stoppage
TUCSON, Ariz. – Oscar Valdez came to his boyhood home looking for a victory that would prove he belongs.
Mission accomplished.
...
Benavidez to pay Brazilian foe $2,000 for missing weight
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – Jose Benavidez Jr. agreed to pay unknown Brazilian Sidney Siqueira $2,000 Friday after he was more than four...
Back to the Roots: Oscar Valdez goes home before moving on...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Oscar Valdez, one of the brightest reasons to be optimistic about boxing’s prospects in 2016, re-introduces himself Saturday to Tucson, a city...
AZ Triple: Abel Ramos’ ShoBox bout makes him one of three...
By Norm Frauenheim-
In another sign of Arizona’s rebounding market, Phoenix welterweight Abel Ramos is one of three fighters from the state who will...
Welcome to the A-Side: Canelo has the perks and a lesson...
By Norm Frauenheim
Canelo Alvarez showed he learned a lot from Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a painful loss that, among other things, taught him how...
Canelo wins one-sided decision over Cotto
LAS VEGAS -Canelo Alvarez and Miguel Cotto promised a lot. Expected a lot. One promise was fulfilled. Alvarez delivered on a vow to himself...
Ramirez wins uneventful decision in bout that ends with a Tim...
LAS VEGAS – It was mandatory performance for a mandatory shot at a title. That’s another way of saying Gilberto Ramirez did what...
Hear The Buzz: It was off the scale for Cotto-Canelo
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Measuring interest in a fight isn’t exactly a science. It’s more a haphazard adventure. Either a so-called buzz...
GGG possibility at stake for Gilberto Ramirez
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS -- Unbeaten Mexican super-middleweight Gilberto Ramirez came to The Strip, hoping to land a shot at the Wold Boxing...
Last Chance: Trying to take the dull out Rigondeaux
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Guillermo Rigondeaux is a master craftsman, yet there’s no market for his craft. He’s unbeaten and unpopular, an unlikely...
Money Belt: Cotto takes the money and trashes the belt
By Norm Frauebheim
LAS VEGAS – The World Boxing Council’s middleweight title belt almost looked like an item at a garage sale Wednesday during...
Mayweather might be retired, but he’s still in headlines that rob...
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr. must love all the attention he’s getting this week. He’s retired – or so he says – and...
Benavidez back in the fight to stay busy while he hopes...
Jose Benavidez Jr. fights for titles. Fights to stay unbeaten.
Fights to stay busy, too.
He’s been pretty good at...
Back to the Beginning: Oscar Valdez returns to his Tucson roots
By Norm Frauenheim
Featherweight Oscar Valdez moves seamlessly between English and Spanish. He needs no interpreter for what he’s saying and what he’s doing....
Bradley back on top with KO of Rios
LAS VEGAS --Timothy Bradley promised a victory. He also promised a whole new animal.
He delivered on the victory Saturday night. But he didn’t have...
Atlas In His Corner: Reborn Bradley promises “a whole new animal”
By Norm Frauenhim--
A corner is Teddy Atlas’ bully pulpit. He once sat on Michael Moorer’s stool after a round midway through a 1994 bout...
Rios Weighs In: Says he ready for Bradley after flushing two...
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Two tenths of a pound aren’t much, but they were enough to make a weigh-in last an hour...
Bradley-Rios: A great fight to be first on the B-side
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s still very much a puzzle, yet the face of boxing in the post Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao era is falling together,...
ShoBox squeaker: Rob Brant scores majority decision over Rose
By Norm Frauenheim--
PHOENIX, Ariz. – For Rob Brant, there was only relief. For Louis Rose, there was only frustration. For both, there...
Homeless to Unknown: This unknown Rose is fighting for a future...
By Norm Frauenheim--
He calls himself Unknown. For unknown Louis Rose, it’s a nickname and a lot more. It sums up where’s he been and...
