Norm Frauenheim
Canelo switches up, agrees with his critics
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Canelo Alvarez has always had a testy relationship with critics. The super-middleweight champion, who has a mean counter in the...
Navarrete wins unanimous decision over Oscar Valdez
GLENDALE, Ariz. – It was promoted as if it was the beginning of a rivalry. There was talk of history.
Emanuel Navarrete-versus-Oscar Valdez Jr., looked...
Navarrete-Valdez: Too tough to call for Morales and Barrera
By Norm Frauenheim
GLENDALE, Ariz. – The Emanuel Navarrete-Oscar Valdez Jr. fight is a tough call, so tough that neither Marco Antonio Barrera nor Erik...
Valdez-Navarrete: A fight to turn forgettable into memorable
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- – Oscar Valdez Jr. looked to his right. Looked to his left.
He was surrounded by the history...
Bam Rodriguez-Sunny Edwards headed to AZ
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GLENDALE, Ariz. – It’s a boxing market built on the lightest weight classes.
It started with Michael Carbajal and was enhanced...
Crawford, Spence rewrite old formula for PPV success
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Risk & Reward was the message on Terence Crawford’s T-shirt at a weigh-in last Friday.
Then, it was subtle.
Nearly a week...
This Bud Is Forever: Crawford claims his era with defining stoppage...
LAS VEGAS –It’s always been what Terence Crawford said it was.
It’s his era.
This Bud is forever.
Terence “Bud” Crawford delivered the proof – definitively –...
Crawford-Spence: A handshake before the hostility
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – They are dangerous men. They’re engaged in what Mike Tyson once called the hurt business. But on the eve of hostility,...
Crawford-Spence: Trash talk gets ugly
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Just when it sounded as if not much more could be said about Terence Crawford-versus-Errol Spence Jr., more was.
A...
Spence-Crawford: Biggest scrap in “the strap season”
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Errol Spence calls it the strap season. Maybe, it is. Suddenly, title belts count for something more than just another...
Crawford-Spence: Unlikely partners in business for bucks and blood
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It’s an unlikely partnership in an unforgiving business for blood and bucks. Maybe some legacy, too. Mostly, it’s still a...
Crawford-Spence: Dramatic differences add up to a fight too close to...
By Norm Frauenheim -
Terence Crawford-Errol Spence Jr, a fascinating fight embedded in the public imagination for years, is generating lots of ideas about...
Crawford-Spence: Surprising deal opens the way to escalating expectations
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It’s a fight that has already exceeded expectations. Terence Crawford-Errol Spence Jr. got made. There was a deal just a...
Trevor McCumby comeback resumes Saturday night in Phoenix
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX, AZ — Trevor McCumby takes the second step in a comeback Saturday night at Celebrity Theatre.
The 30-year-old McCumby hopes to pick...
Nothing New: Canelo ignores Benavidez, agrees to fight Jermall Charlo
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Last week, there was a question. Is Canelo Alvarez listening?
This week, there’s an answer.
No.
It’s a definitive no, delivered by Badou...
Market speaks, but is Canelo listening?
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It’s been a good week to be a fight fan, which is another way of saying the business is staging...
Teofimo Lopez has plenty to say, but is still searching for...
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There’s not much Teofimo Lopez won’t say these days. He’s a shock jock in a concussive business, one that has...
Benavidez-Canelo? Benavidez promoter goes public with his campaign
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Politics, boxing style, continues to surround the David Benavidez-versus-Canelo Alvarez possibility and nobody is playing that game harder than Benavidez...
Chaos Game: Crawford, Spence announce they’re next
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Chaos is boxing’s oxygen. If the last few months are a sign, the patient is breathing. Maybe even thriving.
The latest...
Devin Haney wins controversial unanimous decision
LAS VEGAS --If this was chess, TheGrandMaster got robbed.
That at least, was the verdict from an angry crowd that booed a unanimous decision handed down by three judges in...
Opening Shove: Haney pushes Lomachenko at staged weigh-in
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LAS VEGAS – Waist-high chess pieces decorate a media room that includes posters that have Devin Haney and Vasiliy Lomachenko...
Technical Masterpiece? On the chessboard, Loma-Haney looks like one
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LAS VEGAS – It was first mentioned about four years ago. It didn’t happen then. But the possibility was never...
Bivol or Benavidez? Canelo confronted by a choice between legacy or...
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It was a homecoming that produced mixed reviews and perhaps a dilemma.
The mix, some praise and lots of criticism, was...
Canelo is back with a promise to reassert his reign of...
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It’s getting hard to identify the so-called face of boxing. One week, it looks a lot like Gervonta Davis. Next...
Fight For The Ages: Tank-Garcia wins over a new generation
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It wasn’t a classic. Roberto Duran’s place as history’s greatest lightweight remains undisputed.
But it was a fight for the ages.
Ages...
Opening Salvo: Elijah Garcia ready to deliver the first pay-per-view shots
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The last time Elijah Garcia opened the show he proved to be a showstopper. He said a memorable hello to...
Tune-up or Crossroads? Questions continue to swirl about Canelo’s bout with...
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It’s called a tune-up. A long-awaited homecoming. But it’s beginning to look as if Canelo Alvarez’ fight with John Ryder...
Benavidez-Canelo? Benavidez is winning the political rounds
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For now, the David Benavidez-Canelo Alvarez possibility isn’t about boxing. It’s about politics.
The debate goes on.
And on.
It also brings to mind...
Benavidez moving up, but still not into Canelo’s immediate plans
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David Benavidez gained name recognition and some first-time recognition in pound-for-pound ratings with his victory over Caleb Plant, but he...
AZ prospect Elijah Garcia to face Zambrano on Tank-Ryan Garcia card
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Elijah Garcia, an emerging middleweight from Phoenix, will fight on the Tank Davis-Ryan Garcia card on April 22 against Kevin...
