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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...
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...
