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Labor Day: Essay, email, list, query, interview, counterpoint, speech, About us, conclusion
By Bart Barry-
There is ever much thought given to layers and how they might best be created in a thing linear as the written...
John McCain, The People’s Champ
By Norm Frauenheim-
PHOENIX, Ariz. – They stood in 103-degree temperatures on both sides of Central Avenue Thursday just to see the hearse. They stood...
A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Gila River Arena in the greater Phoenix area Ghanaian super bantamweight titlist Isaac Dogboe raced through Japan’s Hidenori Otake in...
FOLLOW BELTRAN – PEDRAZA & DOGBOE – OTAKE LIVE
Follow all the action as Ray Beltan defends the WBO Lightweight title against Jose Pedraza. The action begins at 10:30 PM ET / 7:30...
Pedraza looks at Beltran and sees another chance at another title
By Norm Frauenheim-
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Jose Pedraza looks at Ray Beltran and sees something he recognizes. Call it opportunity. There aren’t many. After nearly...
Royal Storm: Isaac Dogboe’s global ambitions lead to his first world-title defense
By Norm Frauenheim-
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Isaac Dogboe has royalty in his blood and a warrior in his heart. He’s also got quick wit. It’s...
Beltran still motivated to go the distance in a fight to feel “fully free”...
By Norm Frauenheim-
PHOENIX – Going the distance is more than another cliché for Ray Beltran. It’s life. He’s fought 12 rounds for a...
Column without end, part 17
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 16, please click here.
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QUITO, Ecuador - No telling where this’ll head as its teetotaler writer’s synapses get tickled...
Ray Beltran at home with a logo that defines him
By Norm Frauenheim-PHOENIX, Ariz. -- If life is a logo, Ray Beltran has one that hints at where he’s been, where he’s going and...
Top Rank Wins Purse Bid for Maurice Hooker’s Mandatory Defense of the WBO Super...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (August 14, 2018) – Roc Nation Sports today announced that Top Rank has won the purse bid for Maurice Hooker’s...
Interim heavyweight title suddenly at stake in BJ Flores-Bryan bout
By Norm Frauenheim-
PHOENIX – An interim title blew into this desert city like debris in a dust storm Thursday with a World Boxing Association...
Krummy: Moving on from Krusher Kovalev to expressions of euphoria
By Bart Barry-
Sundays like these you spend wondering if this will be it, the last Sunday, the one when the words or at least...
FOLLOW KOVALEV – ALVAREZ LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action from The Hard Rock in Atlantic City as Sergey Kovalev defends the WBA Light heavyweight title against top contender Eleider...
Risk Returns: Mikey Garcia willing to take a chance
By Norm Frauenheim-
Mikey Garcia’s pursuit of Errol Spence Jr. in a daunting, two-division jump from lightweight to welter is a welcome counter to Floyd...
Mikey Garcia goes linear
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles in a match that unified lightweight titles without undisputing them Mikey Garcia outboxed Robert Easter and decisioned him...
FOLLOW GARCIA – EASTER LIVE!!
Follow all the action from Staples Center in Los Angeles as Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter, Jr meet in a Lightweight unification bout. The...
FOLLOW DIAZ – ITO LIVE
Follow all the action as Christopher Diaz and Myasuki Ito vie for the vacant WBO Junior Lightweight title. The action begins at 9:30 PM...
Mikey Garcia faces key lesson in a pound-for-pound plan
By Norm Frauenheim-
LOS ANGELES – Mikey Garcia has gone to school in law enforcement. He’s gone to school to learn how to drive race...
Turkish delight: Usyk unmans Gassiev on Tivibu Spor
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk became the first unified cruiserweight champion of the world since Evander Holyfield, pitching a 12-round...
OLEKSANDR USYK 198.2 LBS – MURAT GASSIEV 198.S LBS
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - July 20, 2018 - On Saturday afternoon, July 21st, undefeated cruiserweights with knock-out power, Uysk and Gassiev, will battle for...
From the red carpet to the main stage: Easter might resurrect Garcia’s pound-for-pound quest
By Norm Frauenheim-
Terence Crawford’s pound-for-pound campaign got a strong endorsement Wednesday night in downtown Los Angeles with an ESPY for best fighter.
Mikey Garcia was...
Arguably the greatest ESPN+ fight in history
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on the ESPN+ app Filipino Manny Pacquiao smelted Argentine welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse in Malaysia. Saturday on no app whatever...
FOLLOW PACQUIAO – MATTHYSSE LIVE!
Follow all the action as Lucas Matthysse defends the WBA Welterweight championship against the legendary Manny Pacquiao in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The action starts...
One Bell Too Long: Time for Pacquiao to say so long
By Norm Faruenheim-
Manny Pacquiao is just the latest example of how boxing makes fools out of everybody who sticks around too long. Inevitably, the...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, parts 1 & 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: A year ago, bereft of ideas for his weekly column, Bart Barry interviewed himself again about the state of the...
Miles, border and more separate GGG and Canelo, yet one promise makes the rematch
By Norm Frauenehim-
About 1,500 miles and an international border separated two fighters who only have a weight class and mutual contempt in common.
Canelo Alvarez...
Saucedo-Zappavigna: A sacrificial sheep made into a ram
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN in Oklahoma City junior welterweight Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo made an adopted-homecoming match against Australian Leonardo "Lenny Z" Zappavigna...
FOLLOW RAMIREZ – ANGULO LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Gilberto Ramirez defends the WBO Super Middleweight title against undefeated Alexis Angulo. The action begins at 9 PM ET...
Never, Never Land: Joshua-Wilder back in the same old place
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing is still a heavyweight fight short of completing a comeback that had buoyed a forever-battered business always hoping for a rebound.
But...
Pride in great male writing about men
By Bart Barry-
This is not a trigger warning but a preamble. What follows is a consideration of fantastic writing about men, the sort...
