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A thrilling act of violence: Ramirez razes Hooker in Texas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in a junior welterweight title-unification
match broadcast by the aficionado’s network, DAZN, California’s Jose Ramirez stopped
Texan Maurice Hooker midway through a wonderfully...
Death And The Ring: Two fighters die in long week that forces fans and...
By Norm Fraueheim-
Boxing has been called life in a shot glass. From tragedy to triumph, it’s all there all at once, 180-proof. It...
GERVONTA DAVIS VS. RICARDO NÚÑEZ FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
BALTIMORE - July 25, 2019 - Two-time super featherweight champion and Baltimore native Gervonta “Tank” Davis went face to face with mandatory challenger Ricardo...
That One Time Keith Thurman faced a true champion
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Fox PPV in a match for the PBC’s
emeritus welterweight championship at MGM Grand undefeated titlist Keith “One
Time” Thurman got dropped...
Pacquiao-Thurman: Compelling bout has some legends buzzing
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – There were three legends and one who wants to be one. They were there to talk about a legend and...
This won’t be the One Time we get surprised by Keith Thurman
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Fox Sports pay-per-view Keith “One Time” Thurman defends his WBA “Super World” welterweight title against Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao in...
Many-sided Thurman in the role of a lifetime in his fight to unseat Pacquiao
By Norm Frauenheim-
Keith Thurman has lots to say, more than enough for Manny Pacquiao to pick and choose whatever he might need for just...
Bryant “Goodfella” Perrella Returns Saturday, Hopes To Move Closer To Title Shot
By Kyle Kinder-
On Saturday night at the Armory in Minneapolis, Bryant “Goodfella” Perrella (16-2, 13KO) looks to inch closer to a title shot when...
Column without end, part 18
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 17, please click here
SAN ANTONIO – This city’s McNay Art Museum, which
has figured heavily (for an art...
FOLLOW UFC 239 LIVE (JONES VS SANTOS)
Follow all the action as it happens as Jon Jones defends the UFC Light Heavyweight title against Thiago Santos. Also Amanda Nunes defends the...
Pacquiao-Thurman: A title fight and battle to regain identity
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s a fight hard to pick, mostly because Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman are welterweights fighting to recreate themselves or perhaps re-discover...
A column with a lot of potential
By Bart Barry-
There were recent fights aplenty with which a
grateful boxing writer might fashion a column, and this writer should be
grateful as any, writing...
A monkey, a flea, and the real meaning of Mexican Style
By Bart Barry-
Friday on a Golden Boy Promotions card that DAZN broadcast from Indio, Calif., super featherweight titlist Andrew “El Chango (The Monkey)” Cancio...
Fury-Wilder II: Fury is already winning the preliminary rounds
By Norm Frauenheim-
Reviews continue, days after Tyson Fury sang his way to a second-round stoppage over an unknown German in what was more of...
Elbows up, lads: The WBSS delivers us more violence
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Arena Riga in Latvia in a pair of
prizefights broadcasted by DAZN the World Boxing Super Series arrived at its
cruiserweight-finals pairing...
Weigh-in Show: Tyson Fury goes to the scale twice, first for the Commission and...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Show Tyson Fury an empty stage and it won’t stay empty for long. He’ll fill it, all 6-foot-9 of...
Tyson Fury back at a work on one plan that emerged after he was...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – He is named for a fighter who these days is remembered for some wisdom about how vulnerable a plan...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, 2019
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: In what has become an annual
tradition, Bart Barry ran out of ideas for his column. So we suggested he interview...
GGG: No matter how you spell it, Golovkin re-enters the ring looking for changes...
By Norm Frauenheim-
The name is little bit different. The corner is a lot different. Whether the differences add up to a reinvented fighter are...
The funniest men on the planet
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a fight
broadcast by DAZN, statuesque world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and misshapen
challenger Andy Ruiz made quite...
FOLLOW JOSHUA – RUIZ LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Anthony Joshua defends the IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles against Andy Ruiz. Before that, beginning at 5:30 PM ET/10 :30...
Heavyweight Blues: Joshua hopes to knock them out in a place synonymous with legends
By Norm Frauenheim-
The heavyweights, bigger than life in fact and fiction, are hard to judge. That’s another way of saying nothing much at all has...
The academy adapts: David Epstein’s “Range”
By Bart Barry-
Tomorrow, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” (Riverhead Books) by David Epstein, author of “The Sports Gene”, will become available...
Dangerous Equation: A Pacquiao victory over Thurman puts the 40-year-old Senator closer to a...
By Norm Fraunheim-
He’s been Pac-Man and Congressman. Honorific titles and belted ones are all part of his resume. He been called just about everything,...
WBSS: At long last, something true
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Scotland the World Boxing Super Series held the final semifinals matches in its bantamweight and super lightweight divisions, and they...
Wilder and Wilder: Deontay’s threats to Breazeale hard to hear, hard to excuse
By Norm Frauenheim-
Deontay Wilder has more words than punches.
At last check, the words are rocking the social-media landscape. Wilder has been all over...
Emanuel Navarrete beats the white towel out of Paul Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in the comain of an ESPN broadcast from Tucson, Mexican super bantamweight Emanuel Navarrete successfully defended his WBO world title by...
FOLLOW HURD – WILLIAMS LIVE
Follow all the action as Jarrett Hurd defends the IBF/WBA Junior Middleweights titles against Julian Williams. The action kicks off at 8 PM ET...
Rematch Test: Berchelt’s rising star depends on how he does in sequel with Vargas
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON – Miguel Berchelt has heard all of the talk. It has him fighting pound-for-pound contender Vasiliy Lomachenko one day. It has...
Royal Rematch: Isaac Dogboe in fight to restore a lost crown
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON – Isaac Dogboe, whose African ancestry is at the root of his Royal Storm nickname, is learning kings don’t last long....
