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After The Beatdown: Tyson Fury has some empathy for Deontay Wilder
By Norm Frauenheim-
Deontay Wilder is a predictable target on sociopath media these days. Anybody, which means just about everybody, with a keyboard and an...
Chocolatito City rebuilt
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Chocolatito City
was a five-part series written in the doldrums of 2016.
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Saturday in Frisco, Texas, Nicaraguan Roman
“Chocolatito” Gonzalez defeated Birmingham’s Khalid...
FOLLOW GARCIA – VARGAS LIVE
Follow all the action as Mikey Garcia takes on Jessie Vargas in a welterweight showdown. The action starts at 6 PM eastern with an...
Stubborn streak takes Mikey Garcia back for another test at welterweight
By Norm Frauenheim-
Mikey Garcia has been called stubborn more than once. It’s a multi-edged adjective. There’s the good stubborn, as in the tenacious Garcia....
REVIEW: Slaughter in the Streets: When Boston Became Boxing’s Murder Capital by Don Stradley
By Kyle Kinder--
Violence and boxing are inseparable. For some fighters, the violence boxing demands is omnipresent. It already exists inside their being when they...
FOLLOW WILDER – FURY 2 LIVE FROM THE MGM GRAND
Follow all the action as Deontay Wilder defends the WBC Heavyweight Title in a much anticipated rematch. The action begins at 9 PM ET...
Arum calls Anthony Joshua a “scared” fighter
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – There been a lot of talk about what -- who -- awaits the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury winner of a...
Fury-Wilder 2: Here we go again
By Bart Barry-
“Playing to strengths delivers excellence; merely
fixing weaknesses does not.” – Paddy Upton, “The Barefoot Coach”
Saturday in Las Vegas, British heavyweight Tyson
“Gypsy King”...
FOLLOW PLANT – FEIGENBUTZ LIVE
Follow all the action as Caleb Plant defends the IBF Super Middleweight title against mandatory challenger Vincent Feigenbutz. The action begins at 8 PM...
Sides and Styles: Fury’s many dimensions confront Wilder with a dangerous guessing game
By Norm Frauenheim-
Tyson Fury moves from profane to prophetic in interviews in much the same way he switches from orthodox to southpaw in the...
Can’t stand to see Chocolatito’s last stand
By Bart Barry-
Three Saturdays from now a comain at the Dallas
Cowboys’ practice facility will feature Nicaragua’s Roman “Chocolatito”
Gonzalez, the once king of our beloved...
FOLLOW RUSSELL – NYAMBAYAR FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Gary Russell Jr . defends the WBC Featherweight title against undefeated mandatory challenger Tugstsogt Nyambayar. the action kicks off...
Fury pose is intended for an audience of one
By Norm Frauenheim-
The before-and-after photos are astonishing. The physical transformation of Tyson Fury continues. A couple of years ago, he made Andy Ruiz Jr....
They can’t all be Izzy and Rafa
By Bart Barry-
Thursday in the co-comain event of a Super Bowl
week fightcard broadcast by DAZN from a shady Miami venue called Meridian at
Island Gardens...
Ancient Games: Tyson Fury jabs at Wilder with rhetorical feints
By Norm Frauenheim-
Tyson Fury calls himself a boxing historian, which means more than a basic understanding of what it is to be the lineal...
Compelled to dissolve compulsion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – In the center of this city there’s a
Greyhound bus station. In the center of
most U.S. cities there’s a Greyhound...
Dumb, Double-Down Dumb: Ruiz throws loyalty and trainer Manny Robles under the bus
By Norm Frauenheim-
Andy Ruiz Jr., who needs as many friends as he can find, fired the best one he had.
He fired Manny Robles.
The move...
J Rock’s swing in the Banana hammock
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center in a super welterweight title-unification fight broadcast by Fox, Dominican slugger Jeison “Banana” Rosario beat-down Philadelphia’s Julian...
FOLLOW WILLIAMS – ROSARIO LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Julian Williams defends the IBF/WBA Super Welterweight titles against Jason Roario. The action kicks off at 6:30 Pm ET...
Wilder-Fury 2: Lots to say about a fight that might hang on some surgical...
By Norm Frauenheim-
The hyperbole is already underway. Insults, expletives and exaggerations were delivered, exchanged and countered this week in downtown Los Angeles, just across...
Carolina blue / Alamo red
By Bart Barry-
CHARLOTTE – This city is its state’s largest by
quite a bit, and some years ago the Associated Press offended Charlotteans, if
not all...
Opening The Door: Josh Taylor moves to Top Rank and closer to 140-pound classic...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Top Rank’s roster got deeper and its reach grew farther with Thursday’s surprising announcement that it had signed Josh Taylor, the Scottish...
Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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Cowboys Stadium be an immense edifice and not
until you are suspended in its gravitational force,...
A few predictions and only one bleeping lock for 2020
By Norm Frauenheim-
Fights we want to see.
Fights we won’t see. It’s that time of the year. Old is supposed to give way to
the new....
Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 1
By Bart Barry-
We were back at Cowboys Stadium in March to see two
of the world’s best prizefighters scrap with one another in a captivating...
FOLLOW DAVIS – GAMBOA LIVE
Follow all the action as Gervonta Davis and Yuriorkis Gamboa vie for the vacant WBA Lightweight title. The action kicks off at 6:45 ET...
TBE: The Best Earner ever is No. 1 on Forbes’ money list
By Norm Frauenheim-
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is No. 1 on the list that really matters to him. After all, he calls himself Money for a reason.
That reason...
Fighter of the Decade: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
By Bart Barry-
And our king returned on the final days of the
decade to save us. Exiled 31 months since
a highpaying debacle of a battle...
FOLLOW HARRISON – CHARLO 2 LIVE
Follow all the action as Tony Harrison defends the WBC Super Welterweight title against Jermell Charlo. The action begins at 8 PM ET /...
FOLLOW JACOBS – CHAVEZ Jr. LIVE
Follow all the action as former middleweight champions Daniel Jacobs and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. square off in a super middleweight clash. The action...
