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Happy Birthday: In a week full of legendary ones, the heavyweights seek a rebirth...
By Norm Frauenheim
Six days after George Foreman’s birthday, four days after Joe Frazier’s birthday and the day before Muhammad Ali’s birthday, the...
To the contrary: Marco Antonio Barrera’s polemical decisions
By Bart Barry-
In only its second week, 2016 promises a paucity of suitable subjects to rival its predecessor. Rather than write 52 columns...
Post Klitschko: Crowd gathers in Fury aftermath
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s hard to know whether the search for the next great heavyweight will ever end. Generation after generation, from baby boomer...
Portrait of 2015’s best knockout, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The May morning of 2015’s knockout of the year, the Saturday Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez...
Howard Davis Jr.: Boxing loses the friendly face of a bygone day
By Norm Frauenheim
A difficult year got a lot tougher in its final week. Howard Davis Jr. died.
Davis’ death Wednesday after...
Portrait of 2015’s best knockout, part 1
By Bart Barry--
The May morning of 2015’s knockout of the year, the Saturday Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez spearchiseled Texan James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland in...
Money, money, money: $igns of an empty 2015
By Norm Frauenheim
Bankers, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, a handful of promoters and network executives can celebrate a year about to enter the...
Chasing heavyweights
By Bart Barry
Among the very few benefits of the PBC’s 2015 emergence is this: We now know clarity in prizefighting’s flagship division - heavyweight,...
FOLLOW ORTIZ – JENNINGS LIVE
Follow all the action as Luis Ortiz battles Bryant Jennings for the WBA Interim Heavyweight title. The action begins at 10:15 PM ET /...
FOLLOW LEE – SAUNDERS LIVE
Follow all the action as Andy Lee defends the WBO Middleweight title against undefeated Billy Joe Saunders. The action kicks off at 5 PM...
FOLLOW BARTHELEMY – SHAFIKOV LIVE
Follow all the action as Rances Barthelemy and Denis Shafikov vie for the vacant IBF Lightweight title. The action begins at 9 PM ET...
Statement on Glazkov-Martin IBF Heavyweight Title Fight
Springfield, New Jersey: Today the IBF held a purse bid for the upcoming battle between Vyacheslav "Czar" Glazkov (21-0-1, 13 KOs) and Charles Martin...
Possibilities: Nicholas Walters just another one as Top Rank moves into a New Year
By Norm Frauenheim-
Top Rank’s December agenda has been about finding new stars, resurrecting a couple of old ones and creating business possibilities in...
A first-person mosaic of a first PBC experience (from the suite, not pressrow)
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - From a suite at AT&T Center, home of the fivetime worldchampion Spurs, boxing looks like nothing so much as...
Benavidez to pay Brazilian foe $2,000 for missing weight
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – Jose Benavidez Jr. agreed to pay unknown Brazilian Sidney Siqueira $2,000 Friday after he was more than four...
Back to the Roots: Oscar Valdez goes home before moving on to New Year
By Norm Frauenheim-
Oscar Valdez, one of the brightest reasons to be optimistic about boxing’s prospects in 2016, re-introduces himself Saturday to Tucson, a city...
AZ Triple: Abel Ramos’ ShoBox bout makes him one of three Arizona fighters in...
By Norm Frauenheim-
In another sign of Arizona’s rebounding market, Phoenix welterweight Abel Ramos is one of three fighters from the state who will...
MASTERNAK: BELLEW’S TRASH TALK WON’T WORK ON ME
Mateusz Masternak aims to prove he is ready to rule the World by beating Tony Bellew and reclaiming the European Cruiserweight title on Saturday...
We begin the Peter Nelson Era
“Mechanism-based approaches are generally dangerous. The problem is that the goal of such studies is mimicry rather than true understanding, and these studies...
Potapov positioning for Bantamweight title opportunity
With the recent vacancy of of the IBF Bantamweight title, the Bantamweight division could be wide open for a new star. Enter 25 year-old...
Insipidity’s end: Tyson Fury acquires sport’s crown jewel
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Germany, England’s Tyson Fury became the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world by decisioning Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko by official scores...
FOLLOW DEGALE – BUTE LIVE
Follow all the action from Quebec City, Canada when James DeGale defends the IBF Super Middleweight title against former world champion Lucian Bute. The...
FOLLOW KLITSCHKO – FURY LIVE
Follow all the action Live as IBF/WBA/WBO Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko defends his titles against undefeated Tyson Fury. The fight begins at 4:45 PM ET...
Welcome to the A-Side: Canelo has the perks and a lesson on how to...
By Norm Frauenheim
Canelo Alvarez showed he learned a lot from Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a painful loss that, among other things, taught him how...
Teasing the strippers: Canelo becomes lineal middleweight champion of the world
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Mandalay Bay, Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez widely decisioned Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto to become the lineal...
FOLLOW COTTO – CANELO LIVE
Follow all the action as Middleweight champion Miguel Cotto battles Canelo Alvarez in a Mouth watering Middleweight title bout. The card begins with at...
Hear The Buzz: It was off the scale for Cotto-Canelo
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Measuring interest in a fight isn’t exactly a science. It’s more a haphazard adventure. Either a so-called buzz...
GGG possibility at stake for Gilberto Ramirez
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS -- Unbeaten Mexican super-middleweight Gilberto Ramirez came to The Strip, hoping to land a shot at the Wold Boxing...
Last Chance: Trying to take the dull out Rigondeaux
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Guillermo Rigondeaux is a master craftsman, yet there’s no market for his craft. He’s unbeaten and unpopular, an unlikely...
Breakdown of Cotto – Alvarez
By Alejandro Echevarria
Whether or not the WBC Middleweight Title is on the line this Saturday’s match between Miguel Cotto (40-4-0, 33Ko’s) and Saúl “Canelo”...
