Norm Frauenheim
Pacquiao is larger than life, but Rios is the bigger guy
Manny Pacquiao’s larger-than-life persona is intact despite last year’s long fall to the canvas in a stunning reminder that nothing lasts forever....
Grandma’s Corner: Kathy Garcia manages the good fight–If nothing is going...
Google doesn’t know who the Italian was. It doesn’t say how old the proverb is. But I could only think that its wisdom...
Scary Legend: Alvarado says Ward-Gatti stands alone
It’s probably just a scheduling coincidence, but the suggestion is there Saturday night in HBO’s decision to air its beautifully-done Legendary Nights: The...
Bradley’s split decision leaves only debate and uncertainty for him, Marquez...
LAS VEGAS – Timothy Bradley promised to be like the government. He wasn’t, thank goodness. There was no shutdown. There was only more...
Nothing Heavy: Bradley, Marquez lighter than 147-pound limit in uneventful weigh-in
LAS VEGAS – The Juan Manuel Marquez-Timothy Bradley fight Saturday night is hard to predict. The weigh-in wasn’t.
Marquez and...
Grace Under Pressure: Bradley faces calculated test from Marquez
Timothy Bradley’s story, called a journey by some, can be summed up best by a poignant sight amid the outrage in the wake of...
It’s Unanimous: Judges are losing on the public scorecard
Nobody pays to see judges at ringside with scorecard in one hand and pencil in the other. But it’s the judges, not the...
Fighting to grow up: For Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., it’s the...
Put a pair of boxing gloves on Peter Pan and you’ve got Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. A man-child, emphasis on the child.
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Ross is gone, but the suspicions won’t go away
LAS VEGAS -- C.J. Ross finally got one right. She quit.
News on Wednesday that Ross would not be back, at least...
Mayweather wins big according to everybody but one judge
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. did the expected. One judge didn’t.
It was brilliant. It was bizarre. It was...
The crowd weighs-in with numbers that hint at more records for...
LAS VEGAS – It was more of a scene than a weigh-in. More about the crowd than the scale.
The often...
Father Knows Best: Angel Garcia says he does
LAS VEGAS – It wouldn’t be a big fight card without a crazy dad lurking in somebody’s corner.
Angel Garcia, junior-welterweight champion Danny...
Who’s The Boss? It sounded a lot like Floyd Mayweather
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Canelo Alvarez arrived late and stayed late Wednesday at a news conference in a venue that figured...
Don’t tell Canelo he has nothing to lose
There’s a theory that Canelo Alvarez has nothing to lose on Sept. 14 in his long-awaited showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. The...
What, me worried? Mayweather isn’t and maybe Canelo should be
Canelo Alvarez keeps getting asked about how he will react to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s trash talk. It’s a question that assumes the...
Opportunity Knocks: Mares can enhance his pound-for-pound credentials against Gonzalez
Abner Mares defies traditional categories, perhaps because he’s nimble enough to switch from one to the other quickly and sometimes seamlessly. Within a...
Thanks, but no thanks: Angel Garcia complains about a media gift...
It didn’t take long for Angel Garcia to erupt. He’s complaining to media that his son, Philadelphia junior-welterweight Danny Garcia, isn’t getting a...
Is there a next great in American heavyweights? Deontay Wilder gets...
The search for a great American heavyweight is turning into a job for archaeologists.
Maybe, Deontay Wilder can begin to drag the...
Legacy: Mayweather, Pacquiao figure to generate debate about what it is...
There may never be a Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao fight and there’s no reason to review, ad nauseam, all of the things that...
PED Culture: It’s no lie, Ryan Braun is an example for...
The furor over major league baseball’s suspension of Ryan – or is that Lyin’? – Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers in the never-ending and...
Matthysse-Garcia: An addition for the Mayweather-Canelo card and a plan for...
The announcement Thursday that Lucas-Matthysse and Danny Garcia will fight on the Floyd-Mayweather Jr.-Canelo Alvarez undercard on Sept. 14 is a further sign that...
Jose Benavidez, Jr., back in the gym with hopes of resuming...
Jose Benavidez, Jr., unbeaten as a junior-welterweight, is expected to test a troublesome right hand next week in sparring at a Phoenix-area gym where...
Cancellation the right thing to do for a fight town that...
PHOENIX – Kudos to Golden Boy Promotions for canceling the Canelo Alvarez-Floyd Mayweather Jr. stop on a multi-city tour last Tuesday because of the...
Golovkin fights to keep himself in position for bigger business
GGG is an acronym still searching for some definition. Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin has an unbeaten record, boxing’s best knockout ratio, Olympic silver, a good...
Heavyweight Calm: Nothing insulting about the Banks-Mitchell rematch
They may find Jimmy Hoffa before America finds another great heavyweight. It’s almost redundant to call the search futile. Yet it continues Saturday, mostly...
Adrien Broner brushes past the obvious
Adrien Broner has used his favorite theatrical prop to comb his hair and stroke his ego, but has yet employed it to brush up...
Maidana’s power prevails in TKO over Lopez
CARSON, Calif. – They collided like a couple of weather fronts. One from Argentina. The other from Riverside, Calif. Only one would be left...
At The Crossroads: Lopez, Maidana fight for relevancy
Josesito Lopez has a nickname that is a mixed blessing. He’s called the Riverside Rocky because he came from nowhere. If the nickname sticks,...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate and...
Risk-to-Reward: Mayweather has Canelo in his calculations
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s brilliant career and shrewd mastery of the risk-to-reward ratio are no coincidence. Mayweather has put himself into history’s pound-for-pound debate...
