Norm Frauenheim
Roach will try to restore America’s Olympic gold in 2012
LAS VEGAS – Freddie Roach will try to put America’s Olympic boxing back on the gold standard.
USA Boxing and Roach announced Saturday morning that...
Nothing off the scale yet, but drama awaits if Mosley’s power...
LAS VEGAS – The scales tipped in favor of Shane Mosley by three pounds. The noise meter favored Manny Pacquiao by untold decibels, all...
Odds for Pacquiao say one thing, but Mosley trainer Naazim Richardson...
LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao has angles. Naazim Richardson has analogies.
Those analogies might not be enough to counter the endless geometry...
Pacquiao sounds like a political heavyweight in last stop before his...
LAS VEGAS – Filipino Congressman Manny Pacquiao will never jump up the boxing scale to heavyweight, but he is beginning to sound as if...
Pacquiao looking to knock out Mosley and maybe Mayweather’s argument
Knockout talk is pretty standard stuff in the build-up for any fight, especially one that Manny Pacquiao and Shane Mosley have transformed...
Lopez, like Ortiz, has opportunity in defeat
Victor Ortiz’ personal triumph in his dramatic upset of Andre Berto re-affirms an increasingly forgotten fundamental. Defeat is important. It’s an...
There’s plenty of heart, but maybe not enough focus for Ortiz...
It’s popular these days to rip Victor Ortiz. It’s also a little too easy, perhaps because his quick mix of honesty and anger create...
Benavidez scheduled for another hometown debut a year after Arizona’s immigration...
PHOENIX --About a year after controversy over immigration legislation forced the cancellation of Jose Benavidez Jr.’s hometown debut as a pro, the Arizona...
Maidana hopes to corner his potential in a bid to beat...
Intrigue is attached to Marcos Maidana-Erik Morales, perhaps for debatable reasons in a fight that might be determined more by what each fighter can’t...
Fear not, Morales says about the danger some see in his...
Erik Morales has heard questions loaded with suggestions that he is damaged and in danger of permanent disability or worse when Marcos Maidana’s power...
Mayweather says 100 million things, but one bet says he’ll have...
It’s hard to know what Manny Pacquiao thinks about all the mixed signals coming from Floyd Mayweather Jr. these days.
First,...
Gonzales celebrates homecoming with a 12-round victory
PHOENIX – Familiar echoes filled the building. Jesus Gonzales was back.
Back at work.
Gonzales returned Friday to his hometown...
Jesus Gonzales is back at work in the only job he...
PHOENIX – You won’t find the hours loading trucks, or the nights as a security guard, or the days as a temporary Census employee...
Cotto’s anger at Mayorga might have been expressed by what he...
Miguel Cotto has always given us many reasons to like him. He provided another one Wednesday in the build-up for his super-welterweight fight Saturday...
Carbajal’s personal fight takes him into a corner on March 18...
A promotional attempt at resurrecting the Phoenix boxing market will start at the roots of some of the city’s better days with Hall...
Arum, King rediscover each other and create new rivalry in a...
If there is ever another remake of The Sunshine Boys, Bob Arum and Don King can play themselves. They are classics, as cantankerous...
A few thoughts while wondering whether Pacquiao was one of Mayweather’s...
A few leftovers while wondering whether 34-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s birthday wish Thursday included a bout with Manny Pacquiao sometime before he turns 35:
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Donaire stops Montiel in second-round stunner
LAS VEGAS –He called himself No. 2 on the Filipino ticket, but Nonito Donaire was No. 1 in the ring Saturday night. As...
Donaire, Montiel make weight in late date with the scale
LAS VEGAS – There was no discrepancy on the official scale, but there was one about the timing Friday before Nonito Donaire and...
Pacquiao comparisons might be a tougher foe for Donaire than Montiel
Nonito Donaire faces expectations that are growing into a challenge more dangerous than even Fernando Montiel. The next Manny Pacquaio? The next bantamweight...
Montiel’s promises for a new style might be the wake-up call...
There’s a new wrinkle to a line that has echoed throughout boxing for as long as gyms have been full of the familiar rhythms...
Headlines and counters while waiting for something Super after the Stupor
While hoping for a Super Bowl that doesn’t turn into the stupor left by Tim Bradley and Devon Alexander in a fight preceded by...
Urgency in a poll is all the motivation Arum needs for...
Bob Arum’s bold move from HBO to CBS and cable subsidiary Showtime is all about numbers. CBS has a lot more of them, more...
On the economic map, Motown and American boxing are in the...
Symbols have been attached to the Timothy Bradley-Devon Alexander fight, so many in fact that they might outnumber the tickets sold for the junior-welterweight...
Looking for hope and finding some in an Arizona gym
PHOENIX – The calls have been coming from everywhere, from old friends and family. What the hell is wrong with Arizona?
I’m...
Blame is everywhere, even on a ballot, for no Pacquiao-Marquez rematch
As criticism of Bob Arum’s decision to go with Shane Mosley instead of Juan Manuel Marquez for Manny Pacquiao’s next fight on May 7...
A few picks, but no promises, for 2011
Predictions are a lot like contract clauses, which is to say they are hard to fulfill. They fall apart faster than Jean Pascal. So...
Say goodbye and good riddance to 2010
It will be remembered for what didn’t happen instead of what did and for a self-proclaimed face of the game seen more often in...
The unabridged Hopkins faces a last stand at adding another chapter...
A conference call with Bernard Hopkins is a lot like his career. It goes on forever, which is one way of saying he has...
Khan survives Maidana storm
LAS VEGAS – LAS VEGAS – Amir Khan’s date with stardom is still there. But for one night it had to wait. Survival got...
