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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....
Lomachenko stops in Phoenix before training at Robert Garcia’s gym for tough title defense...
By Norm Frauenheim--
PHOENIX -- Vasyl Lomachenko’s pro resume hasn’t quite caught up with his passport. But give him time. The resume was stamped with...
Splitsville: Mayweather long on drama and short on promises
By Norm Frauenheim--
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is boxing’s undisputed Drama Diva.
The latest from The Money Team’s long-running soap...
Ex-Olympians and Mosley’s son set for Phoenix card Saturday night
By Norm Frauenheim--
Top Rank’s attempt to resurrect a dormant Phoenix market continues Saturday night in a partnership with Iron Boy Promotions in a...
An old Floyd is not the old Floyd
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in a rematch few aficionados demanded, fewer still watched, and fewer yet found entertaining as its...
FOLLOW MAYWEATHER – MAIDANA II LIVE
Follow all the action live as Floyd Mayweather defends two Welterweight world titles plus a Jr. Middleweight world title in a rematch against former...
De La Hoya promises major cards in Vegas that could conflict with Mayweather
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya got a key to the city Saturday and promised major cards in Vegas around each...
No off-the-scale mayhem: Mayweather, Maidana all business at the weigh-in
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana were all business Friday at a weigh-in that sounded like a rap...
May-vinci Code is just one of Mayweather’s puzzles
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. has his "May-vinci Code.'' Nobody can crack it, he says. And nobody has. His...
Mayweather, Ellerbe fight to quell controversy over comments about Rice
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his promotional partner Leonard Ellerbe tried to put an end to questions about the...
Mayweather-Maidana 2: Circus of the sagging big top
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at MGM Grand, over which a 20-story Manny Pacquiao banner likely will not drape, American welterweight Floyd “Money” Mayweather will make...
Read This: 50 Cent should issue a public apology to Mayweather
By Norm Frauenheim--
Now that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has publicly addressed questions about his reading skills from rapper 50 Cent, here’s another question:
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