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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”...
Money Belt: Cotto takes the money and trashes the belt
By Norm Frauebheim
LAS VEGAS – The World Boxing Council’s middleweight title belt almost looked like an item at a garage sale Wednesday during...
Canelo-Cotto: Slightly more than an eliminator for the HBO middleweight championship
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Mandalay Bay, Puerto Rican middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will swap blows with Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in a...
Mayweather might be retired, but he’s still in headlines that rob Canelo-Cotto of attention
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr. must love all the attention he’s getting this week. He’s retired – or so he says – and...
Benavidez back in the fight to stay busy while he hopes for a shot...
Jose Benavidez Jr. fights for titles. Fights to stay unbeaten.
Fights to stay busy, too.
He’s been pretty good at...
Back to the Beginning: Oscar Valdez returns to his Tucson roots
By Norm Frauenheim
Featherweight Oscar Valdez moves seamlessly between English and Spanish. He needs no interpreter for what he’s saying and what he’s doing....
Bradley, Atlas and Rios: What’s a good metaphor for embellishment?
By Bart Barry
Saturday in a Thomas & Mack Arena that was not sold out, American welterweight Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley and his new trainer,...
FOLLOW BRADLEY – RIOS LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action Live as Timothy Bradley defends the WBO Welterweight title against Brandon Rios. The action begins at 9:30 PM et /...
Atlas In His Corner: Reborn Bradley promises “a whole new animal”
By Norm Frauenhim--
A corner is Teddy Atlas’ bully pulpit. He once sat on Michael Moorer’s stool after a round midway through a 1994 bout...
Rios Weighs In: Says he ready for Bradley after flushing two tenths to make...
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Two tenths of a pound aren’t much, but they were enough to make a weigh-in last an hour...
Hershman, Bradley and Rios: Finally an honest prizefight
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center, American welterweights Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios will compete for a world title of some...
Bradley-Rios: A great fight to be first on the B-side
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s still very much a puzzle, yet the face of boxing in the post Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao era is falling together,...
Disorder to diminishing returns: Terence Crawford and boxing’s downward spiral
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Omaha’s CenturyLink Center, in what was probably another attendance record of some prepositional sort - in October, against a French...
