Norm Frauenheim
Gonzales fighting to reclaim the promise that an Ernie had
PHOENIX – Jesus Gonzales wears a Fifties’ style hat that is everywhere these days. Old-school is new-century chic. Everybody has a...
Shuffle means new foe, bigger risk for Jesus Gonzales
PHOENIX – A taller opponent and a potentially bigger risk confronts Phoenix super-middleweight Jesus Gonzales, who faces Francisco Sierra of Mexico...
There’s plenty of opportunity in Haye’s trashing of Klitschko
For years, Wladimir Klitschko has been the solitary chess master against a field full of guys who should be playing checkers. He’s been...
Alexander hopes to use lessons in a fight to recreate The...
Hype, inevitable as it is dangerous, accompanies Devon Alexander into the ring Saturday against Lucas Mattysse as ally or enemy.
Alexander (21-1,...
Real questions loom as Alvarez moves beyond the red hair and...
Introductions were fun, yet cosmetic. Saul Alvarez knows that.
“People won’t follow you just because of the red hair,’’ said Alvarez, the red-headed Pied Piper...
Benavidez a knockout in his Phoenix homecoming
PHOENIX -- The right wrist was hurting. The left knuckle was bruised. The fight was painful. But the homecoming was sweet. Jose Benavidez Jr....
Benavidez ready for Alarcon tonight in Phoenix
PHOENIX -- Junior-welterweight prospect Jose Benavidez Jr. looked at the scale and saw a familiar number Friday at the formal weigh-in for his...
Coming home: Benavidez confident he can
PHOENIX – It’s a line as old as a jab. It’s about going home. It says that you can’t. But Jose Benavidez, Jr., can...
Ortiz means more $$ for Money Mayweather, but don’t bet on...
Floyd Mayweather Jr.-versus-Victor Ortiz: Tune-up or tease?
The tune-up, of course, is a widely-held interpretation of Mayweather’s Twitter-delivered announcement that he’ll fight...
Benavidez gets an opponent for hometown debut
PHOENIX – Phoenix junior-welterweight prospect Jose Benavidez Jr. learned Wednesday that he is scheduled to fight well-traveled Corey Alarcon Saturday night...
In trying to create some of his own history, Chavez, Jr.,...
Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr., says he wants to create his own history, which means he will try to re-write a chapter as old as...
Froch’s genuine confidence targets two: Glen Johnson, then Andre Ward
Confidence, too often a bully’s mask or manufactured by insecurity, can sometimes be genuine. Thanks, Carl Froch. From Froch, it sounds like the real...
Healthy dose of defiance has always been the key ingredient in...
Bernard Hopkins’ diet apparently has never included a single potato chip or one of George Foreman’s cheeseburgers. Meanwhile, Jean Pascal sounds as if he...
In the Mosley aftermath, Pacquiao-Marquez would be a tough sell
Fight fans, an endangered species, will applaud if Golden Boy Promotions does not match Top Rank’s offer to Juan Manuel Marquez,...
Boos for Mosley as Pacquiao makes it look easy in a...
LAS VEGAS – For Manny Pacquiao, there is only more waiting and more speculating about Floyd Mayweather, Jr. For Shane Mosley, there are boos.
...
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...
