Boxing News Columns
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Mayweather-Maidana: A master’s secrets to making Money
By Bart Barry--
Saturday American Floyd “Money” Mayweather will fight once more at MGM Grand, this time with Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana, in a...
No promises, but does Mayweather’s ‘A’ game mean a KO?
By Norm Frauenheim-
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said repeatedly during the promotional push to his May 3 bout with Marcos Maidana that nobody has...
Bernard Hopkins’ alien charm
By Bart Barry--
What if Michael Jordan came back tomorrow, at age 51, and won an NBA championship with, say, the Washington Wizards for whom...
Lots of noise, but one fan said it all about the game that never...
By Norm Frauenheim
During a noisy week when the shouting got louder and the insults grew more insulting, there was a moment of relief...
Pacquiao-Bradley 2: Settling scores
By Bart Barry-
LAS VEGAS – Having scored the first match between American Timothy Bradley and Filipino Manny Pacquiao the wrong way from ringside, I...
No Villains: On any scale, Bradley and Pacquiao make for a good sequel
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – It’s a fight without a villain. Timothy Bradley tried to play the role Friday at the weigh-in for...
Compassion a double-edged dilemma for Pacquiao
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – A compassionate Manny Pacquiao can’t win. That’s the popular theory, anyway. Pacquiao Freddie Roach introduced it. Media...
Arum rips MGM Grand for Mayweather-Maidana posters during Pacquiao-Bradley week
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – A rematch Saturday marked mostly by polite exchanges between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley suddenly got a shot...
Return to the scene of a “robbery”
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, not Macao, undefeated American welterweight Timothy Bradley will make a rematch of his...
Farewell? Not Bernard Hopkins, who always says hello to a challenge
By Norm Frauenheim--
A couple days after 40-year-old New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter began a long goodbye to baseball with the first stop in...
A Krushing konclusion to a bad year’s worst week
By Bart Barry
Quick, off the top of your head, name the contracted terms of Sugar Ray Robinson’s rematch with Jake LaMotta in 1943. ...
Respect? Bradley starts by looking at himself
By Norm Frauenheim
Just when Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr., most of the NFL, NBA and major-league baseball have us convinced that disrespect...
¡Puro Duran!
By Bart Barry
Tuesday the WBC’s official Twitter account posted a picture of Roberto Duran embracing the late Esteban De Jesus, a picture I retweeted...
Poet and The Pac Man: Dylan’s visit with Pacquaio brings back some old lyrics
By Norm Frauenheim
It's not everyday that Bob Dylan just drops by. But there he was last week at the Wild Card Gym to...
Why I will be in Las Vegas in April
By Bart Barry
A few weeks back I did something I rarely do: I made plans to attend a Las Vegas fight, Timothy Bradley versus...
Danny Garcia has his own plan
By Norm Frauenheim
Danny Garcia might be the only fighter not trying to elbow his way toward the front of the line that leads to...
Canelo takes El Perro to the pound (and Tony Weeks keeps him awake)
By Bart Barry
Saturday in Las Vegas the redhead anointed by one very powerful Mexican television network as the man most likely to continue his...
Mayweather draws a crowd at any time and against anybody
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. was an hour late Saturday for his own news conference. But a crowd stuck around,...
Test Time: Canelo’s faces questions and Angulo in his first bout since his first...
By Norm Frauenheim
Canelo Alvarez hears the question more often than he saw Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s shoulder roll, roll and roll on a long,...
Mexican veterans, (former) Soviet newcomers, and autodidacts
SAN ANTONIO – In this city’s Alamodome on Saturday, before Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. could whup Austin’s Bryan Vera and position himself for...
Tough Sell: Mayweather will have an easier time beating Maidana
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s biggest challenge on May 3 won’t come from Marcos Maidana. Not even Maidana’s heavy-handed power has much of a chance...
The Legend’s Son returns to returning
SAN ANTONIO – Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. returns to this city sometime in the next few days, returns to...
Going To The Polls: Chavez Jr., Canelo are back and confident that their fans...
The first two Saturdays in March are a window that will provide a look at whether two heavily-hyped fighters, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr....
2012 Bronze Medal winner Shelestyuk plus Whitlock highlight Boxcino undercard this Friday in Laughlin
Philadelphia, PA (February 20, 2014)-- Tomorrow night at the Edgewater Casino in Laughlin, Nevada, Boxcino 2014 kick offs with the opening round in the...
Dmitry Salita talks Ukrainian Politics situation
Former world title challenger and promoter Dmitry Salita talks about the recent political unrest that is going on his native Ukraine.
1. What are your...
Alvarado stops Castellanos in 9.
Rene Alvarado scored a 9th round stoppage over Robinson Castellanos in a scheduled 12 round Featherweight bout at Centro de Convenciones in Puerto Vallarta,...
Visiting “Age of Impressionism” while reading “Juan Diaz and the Age of Impressionism”
HOUSTON – Returned to Texas’ largest city and the fourth-largest city in our country, a day before a day we celebrate the father of...
History 101: Kathy Duva remembers what she doesn’t want Kovalev to repeat
Sergey Kovalev’s projected path to the top of the light-heavyweight division is at a stage in a well-worn process that is necessary, yet...
Juan Diaz and the Age of Impressionism
In the 1870s, a group of artists in Paris, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, decided to stop submitting their works to the official annual exhibition of...
Malignaggi gets his Taub
SAN ANTONIO – A small band of boxing media and bystanders gathered Sunday afternoon near an entrance of the Home Depot Center in Alamo...
