Boxing News Columns
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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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Cotto to sit out rest of year
According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, world Middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will not fight again in 2014.
The reason for Cotto's decision was simple logistics....
When a quest for great spectacles leaves boxing behind
By Bart Barry--
FORT WORTH, Texas – There was a fight card in my hometown Saturday night, and I didn’t hesitate for a tick to...
Mayweather’s many options leave him with no choice?
By Norm Frauenheim--
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been called the face of boxing about as often as Caesar has been called the face of...
Cory Spinks gives back to USA Boxing; Adds a generation
By Johnny Schulz-
Former undisputed welterweight world champion and future Hall of Famer Cory Spinks has come full circle with his passion for boxing and...
Another afternoon press conference for a local card
By Bart Barry--
The temperature in the parking lot is a reminder just how badly abused is the word “sweltering” by Americans anywhere above of...
Happy Warrior: Leo Santa Cruz fights the way Pharrell Williams sings
By Norm Frauenheim-
Leo Santa Cruz is known for volume. In boxing speak, that means one thing. Translation: Lots of punches. But...
Prizefighting’s blurrily expressed intimacy
By Bart Barry--
A couple years ago, apropos of violence and documentaries and Pablo Picasso, too, a writer whose work I admire mentioned in a...
FOLLOW PORTER – BROOK PLUS 2 WORLD TITLE FIGHTS LIVE
Follow all the action as Shawn Porter defends the IBF Welterweight title against Kell Brook in a battle of undefeated fighters. The action...
Mayweather’s List: Porter and Brook fighting to get on it
By Norm Frauenheim--
Getting a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been called a derby and a sweepstakes. There are no rules on how...
Henri Matisse, and absorbing the lessons of predecessors in a way boxing does not
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – This city’s largest art museum, SAMA, is now in the throes of a three-month exhibition, “Matisse: Life in Color,”...
FOLLOW GARCIA – SALKA PLUS 2 WORLD TITLE BOUTS LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as unified Jr. Welterweight champion Danny Garcia takes on Rod Salka in a Welterweight bout live from Barclays Center in...
Game-changer: Hopkins offers a chance at one in dangerous fight against Kovalev
By Norm Frauenheim--
A few days after Oscar De La Hoya talked about upsets during a contentious conference call involving Danny Garcia's perceived mismatch...
Sergey Kovalev, and the genuine possibility of being Krushed by an Alien
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Atlantic City in another hideous but portentous mismatch on HBO, Russian light heavyweight titlist Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev raced through a...
Ya’ll Must Have Forgot: Jones could have been singing about Ward
By Norm Frauenheim-
Roy Jones Jr. continues to fight and we wish he wouldn't. Andre Ward doesn't fight and we wish he would....
GGG: Golovkin Gores Geale / Good Going Guys
By Bart Barry-
“Geale had the best credentials of anyone that’s gotten in the ring with him. Geale is a former two-time titlist.” – Gennady...
Grown-up message: Benavidez hopes to deliver one
By Norm Frauenheim
PHOENIX –- He was a 16-year-old prodigy. Then, he was a 17-year-old prospect with a contract before he had a high-school diploma....
The Soviets are coming
By Bart Barry-
Saturday begins an eight-day Soviet-boxing siege on HBO.
No, you’re right, “siege” is more than a bit over the top, and the Soviet...
Time is becoming Golovkin’s biggest fight
By Norm Frauenheim-
Gennady Golovkin has one title he’d like to keep for as long as possible and another one he’d prefer to shed as...
Anything, please, but a rematch!
By Bart Barry-
When Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fought countryman Alfredo Angulo in March, I attended a viewing party at the home of a Puerto...
