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Unlike the Pacquiao-Mayweather riddle, Keith Thurman is a real answer to the real question...
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Boxing’s chessboard is full of potential moves Saturday with dueling cards that include 18 bouts televised by competing...
Alexander grateful for a ring that is a refuge from the Ferguson riots
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS -- The ring doesn’t look like much of a refuge. Ropes contain the violence within them. Step inside at...
Final Exam: Benavidez faces one in fight to graduate to world class
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – For better or worse, Jose Benavidez Jr.‘s time as a prospect is about to end. It’s his choice. Nobody...
Star of Wahlberg TV show to step into the ring against former Super Bowl...
Star of the Donnie Wahlberg, Mark Whalberh and Paulie Wahlberg reality show, Handy Nacho Laun will fight former Super Bowl Champion on January 31...
Two cards, one common fight for relevancy
By Norm Frauenheim--
The arenas and networks will be different.
Nearly everything else about dueling cards on Dec. 13 shares a common theme and...
Terence Crawford, and optimists and evangelists
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraskan lightweight champion Terence Crawford decisioned Mexican Raymundo Beltran lopsidedly, 119-109 and 118-110 and 119-109, in...
Pacquiao-Mayweather has everybody’s vote but the one it needs
By Norm Frauenheim--
Manny Pacquiao has spoken. Freddie Roach has spoken. Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya have spoken. They're still speaking. We've...
Full gonzo: Sleeping through Pacquiao-Algieri
By Bart Barry--
FORT WORTH, Texas - The understated perfection of architect Louis I. Kahn’s soft marble masterpiece, Kimbell Art Museum, known round the world...
FOLLOW PACQUIO – ALGIERI LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action live from Ringside as Manny Pacquiao defends the WBO Welterweight title against undefeated WBO Jr. Welterweight champion Chris Algieri. ...
Pacquiao not Algieri’s toughest challenge, says trainer
By Norm Frauenheim--
Chris Algieri has had tougher fights than Manny Pacquaio, Algieri trainer Tim Lane said Thursday before Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach...
Pacquiao-Algieri: From opposite ends
By Bart Barry
Saturday at the Venetian in Macau, Filipino Manny Pacquiao will defend his welterweight title against New Yorker Chris Algieri, a junior welterweight...
Follow Klitschko – Pulev Live
Follow all the action live from Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko defends his titles against undefeated Kubrat Pulev. The action begins at 4:45 ET...
A Collective Face: Fighter of the Year is the current generation from the old...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Sergey Kovalev's victory over Bernard Hopkins was one thing. His dominance was something else. After awhile, the benefit of hindsight will...
Kovalev-Hopkins: The fight of 2014
By Bart Barry-
The most unexpected thing shared by guys who hit hardest is rarely how hard they hit or the speed of their attack....
Encounter of Another Kind: Hopkins’ many lives get a defining challenge in Kovalev
By Norm Frauenheim-
Bernard Hopkins’ life as street thug, ex-con, Congressional witness, peace-maker, fighter, promoter, pundit, provocateur, butcher, baker and candlestick maker includes different...
SHOWTIME BOXING TO CLOSE OUT 2014 WITH ADONIS STEVENSON TITLE DEFENSE AGAINST TOP-10 RANKED...
NEW YORK (Nov. 5, 2014)–-SHOWTIME Sports will close out its 2014 boxing calendar with the return of WBC and The Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight...
Mental alignment, Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev
By Bart Barry--
SAN MARCOS, Texas – Three miles southwest of Texas State University is a mostly waterless stretch of terrain called Purgatory Creek Natural...
At The Crossroads: Remembering Ali-Foreman
By Norm Frauenheim
Drivers pass the Lonnie and Muhammad Ali Pavilion Center near downtown Phoenix all the time. It’s just another building at...
MFAH & GGG: Enduring doubts
By Bart Barry-
HOUSTON – Saturday this city’s largest art museum previewed for its members a fall exhibition, “Monet and the Seine,” that is unimpressive....
Mind Games: Pacquiao’s sparring partners better than Algieri? Maybe, says Roach
By Norm Frauenheim--
Chris Algieri is good enough to fight Manny Pacquaio, but he might not be good enough to beat some...
Harmonious manhood: Nicholas Walters, Nonito Donaire and Corey Holcomb
By Bart Barry--
HOUSTON – Saturday at Carson, Calif.’s StubHub Center, a great fight venue with a moronic name, Jamaican featherweight Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters...
Heavy Price: Overweight Rubio pays $100,000 for 1.8 pounds
By Norm Frauenheim
CARSON, Calif. – Marco Antonio Rubio lost money instead of weight in failing to make the 160-pound limit Friday for his...
GGG: Gennady Going Global
By Norm Frauenheim--
CARSON, Calif. -- The GGG at the belt of his waistband isn’t much of a secret anymore. But Gennady Gennadyevich Golovkin’s initials...
The Axe Man cometh
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., in a co-main event broadcast by HBO and certain to be more entertaining than what...
Jermain Taylor’s paper crown includes a dangerous future
By Norm Frauenheim-
Sad spectacles are little bit like jagged scars. They are always there, an uncomfortable reminder that real estate between the ropes is...
Jhonny, El Travieso, and Devil’s River
By Bart Barry--
DEL RIO, Texas – A few miles south of here begins the Mexican state of Coahuila, and about 40 miles north of...
The old theater feels empty without Dan Goossen
By Norm Frauenheim--
Dan Goossen's death this week is a reminder that boxing survives because of the characters who have always understood that theater...
Canelo Alvarez, cable networks, and learned helplessness
By Bart Barry-
Another game changer happened Tuesday. It came with a series of email announcements and a conference call and probably a press conference,...
Game-Changing Day: Canelo celebrates, Mayweather squirms
By Norm Frauenheim
Canelo Alvarez's jump to HBO from Showtime isn't surprising. He follows Bernard Hopkins, who took the first step in a move...
Travel box and away
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday night I attended “Jazz’SAlive,” a two-day, free-admission jazz festival in the newly restored Travis Park, which abuts St....
