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Catch-weight controversy fades as both Canelo and Lara make the 155 mandatory
By Norm Frauenheim=
A catch-weight clause in the Canelo Alvarez-Erslandy Lara contract quickly became a forgotten controversy Friday when each fighter weighed in at 155-pounds...
In Canelo, De La Hoya can get a glimpse at where he’s been and...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Oscar De La Hoya often talks about Canelo Alvarez as though he is looking at himself, or maybe at what he had...
Saul Alvarez: The cinnamon reckoning of an American promoter and a Cuban boxer
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand, home of Floyd Mayweather’s entranceway shrine, Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will make a pay-per-view match with...
Lara fighting for his version of The Dream against Canelo
By Norm Frauenheim-
Erislandy Lara, a Cuban defector, calls himself The American Dream. Nothing new about the nickname.
David Reid, a...
Terence Crawford: Ratified with a smile
By Bart Barry-
After nine years of sitting ringside at Top Rank shows – my first media credential came from Lee Samuels, in April 2005...
Feud Fallout: Falling pay-per-view numbers are a sign of the times
By Norm Frauneheim-
It's a season of declining expectations. Miguel Cotto's dramatic victory over Sergio Martinez represents the third straight time that pay-per-view numbers...
In celebration of 0s that went
By Bart Barry--
“Looks like in the next year or two, he is going to be a threat for any featherweight champion.”
The quote above belongs...
A Look Beyond The Feud: Russell and Lomachenko might provide a glimpse
By Norm Frauenheim-
Much has been attached to the Golden Boy Promotions card Saturday night at the SubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
Too...
Chris Algieri: Mind over massacre
By Bart Barry-
Two Saturdays ago in Manhattan’s Madison Square Garden our sport bade a tempered farewell to former middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, squinting at...
Forbes or Future? Mayweather’s money wins one debate and starts another
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s top spot on the Forbes' latest edition of the world's highest-paid athletes is a counter to the tired...
Adiós, Sergio, con un abrazo fuerte
By Bart Barry--
If we choose to believe all was well with Argentine southpaw Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez’s lower body when the opening bell rang on...
FOLLOW MARTINEZ – COTTO LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action Live from Madison Square Garden when Sergio Martinez defends the Middleweight championship of the world against 3-division champion Miguel Cotto....
Hall of Fame induction just the opening bell for the biggest fight in De...
By Norm Frauenheim--
Oscar De La Hoya's induction to the International Boxing Hall of Fame Sunday a few days after the tumult of Richard...
Carl Froch: Into the breach
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium British super middleweight titlist Carl “The Cobra” Froch stood before 80,000 of his countrymen, and across from...
FOLLOW FROCH – GROVES LIVE
Follow all the action when Carl Froch and George Groves get it on in an highly anticipated Super Middleweight title rematch that will take...
Business Sense: Froch-Groves at Wembley is a lesson to feuding promoters about how to...
By Norm Frauenheim
London’s Wembley Stadium will be the stage Saturday for what figures to be a terrific rematch in the second edition...
Carl Froch, and the art of unjustifiable self-belief
By Bart Barry-
In a “Gloves Are Off” prefight conversation more entertaining than a highlight reel of every eerily scored “Face Off with Max Kellerman”...
Cotto’s ring skill is still his best social skill in fight with Martinez
By Norm Frauenheim--
Sergio Martinez probably won’t ever invite Miguel Cotto to a backyard barbecue. Martinez talks as if he just doesn’t like Cotto....
Juan Manuel Marquez: The definition of a prizefighter
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at the newly reopened Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Mexican “Dinamita” Juan Manuel Marquez and Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado engaged in...
Back to the Future: Arum’s return to The Forum takes him back to familiar...
By Norm Frauenheim--
Boxing returns to a place Saturday that helped re-define the business in a way that allowed it to move beyond the Sugar...
Austin: Gallery Tour and Mandingo Warrior
By Bart Barry--
AUSTIN, Texas – Somewhere round here, likely on currently gentrified streets once mean, James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland roamed and terrorized sparring partners...
Options? Chavez Jr. running on empty
By Norm Frauenheim--
There are losers aplenty in the wake of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Gennady Golovkin possibility headed to never-never land, right...
Marcos Maidana: Unplanned-for, undissuaded
By Bart Barry--
After their Saturday welterweight match at MGM Grand, American Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana proffered a study in...
Mayweather escapes with a majority decision over Maidana
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – It was supposed to be easy. It wasn’t.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. got the victory that oddsmakers,...
De La Hoya: Nobody is going to fire Richard Schaefer
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya, founder of Golden Boy Promotions, said he is fighting for his company and that...
FOLLOW MAYWEATHER – MAIDANA LIVE
Follow all the action live as Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana meet in a WBA/WBC Welterweight unification bout. A big 3-fight undercard will take...
UPDATE–Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
By Norm Fraienheim--
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
What Distractions? Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
Schaefer gets some B-Hop support in his rift with De La Hoya
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – The Golden Boy Promotions divide between CEO Richard Schaefer and founder Oscar De La Hoya appeared to widen...
The Show: The news-conference stage belonged to Mayweather
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza called Floyd Mayweather Jr. “a show” and Mayweather proved him right throughout a news conference...
