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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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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...
