Norm Frauenheim
Planting Time: How about a Canelo-GGG guarantee next to that olive...
By Norm Frauenheim-
World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman says an olive tree will be planted amid the neon surrounding Las Vegas’ new T-Mobile...
The Lundy List? Terence Crawford motivated to join a much...
By Norm Frauenheim-
A pound-for-pound debate without a mention of Terence Crawford isn’t much of a conversation. At least, he doesn’t think so. Does Crawford...
Jessie Magdaleno stays unbeaten in renewed pursuit of a world title
By Norm Frauenheim-
PHOENIX – Jessie Magdaleno jumped onto the ring post and gestured at his waist as if to say he needs a belt.
A...
The It Factor: For Felix Verdejo, it means a title shot
By Norm Frauenheim-
A blueprint of the next great fighter would look a lot like Felix Verdejo. Fast hands, agile feet, power and a...
Solo Boxeo, ShoBox to feature AZ fighters
By Norm Frauenheim
A busy stretch for Arizona boxing continues this weekend with appearances on Showtime’s ShoBox in Atlantic City Friday and on UniMas’...
GGG’s waiting game has gone on too long
By Norm Frauenheim-
Gennady Golovkin is the pound for-pound champion in waiting. Emphasis on the waiting.
No telling when that wait will end. But it got...
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.
...
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....
