Mashing it up with my new app
By Bart Barry-
I was up before dawn Friday morning to begin the day for 20 minutes before I remembered I was up to watch...
Who I was cheering for, and why?
By Bart Barry-
One doesn’t know when the urge to experimentalism will strike but one learns indulge it until he learns not to (many efforts...
FOLLOW STEVENSON – JACK LIVE
Follow all the action as Adonis Stevenson defends the WBC Light Heavyweight title against Badou Jack. The action begins around 11 PM ET /...
FOLLOW RUSSELL JR. – DIAZ JR. LIVE
Follow all the action as Gary Russell Jr. defends the WBC Featherweight title against Joseph Diaz, Jr in a battle of former U.S Olympians. ...
FOLLOW SELBY – WARRINGTON LIVE
Follow all the action as Lee Selby defends the IBF Featherweight title against Josh Warrington from Leeds, England. The action kicks off at 5...
GGG-Canelo: Back at the table for same rematch but probably a different deal
By Norm Frauenheim-
Canelo Alvarez’ enrollment this week in VADA, voluntary drug testing, represents relief for a nervous business still counting on big bucks from...
The Lesson of The Master
By Jimmy Tobin-
When Ukranian Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko entered the ring at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night he did so as a nearly -1400...
Vasyl Lomachenko: A one-punch indictment, a 10-punch justification
By Bart Barry-
Ukrainian prizefighter Vasyl Lomachenko and his promoter Top Rank accomplished something pretty extraordinary Saturday when Lomachenko stopped lightweight champion Jorge Linares with...
FOLLOW LINARES – LOMACHENKO LIVE FROM RINGSIDE!!
Follow all the action from ringside at Madison Square Garden as Jorge Linares defends the WBA Lightweight title against 2 division world champion and...
Lomachenko-Linares: First shot in looming pound-for-pound debate
By Norm Frauenheim-
Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jorge Linares Saturday at New York’s Madison Square Garden is an opportunity to reset the table on a year that began...
Column 676
Bart Barry-
A genuine pursuit of greatness is not exasperating. It may be breathtaking or ridiculous or sobering or exhilarating, but it may not...
FOLLOW GOLOVKIN – MARTIROSYAN LIVE!!!
Follow all the action as world Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin depends his title against Vanes Martirosyan. The action kicks off at 11 PM ET...
FOLLOW BELLEW – HAYE 2 LIVE!!!
Follow All the action as former world champions, Tony Bellew and David Haye meet in a heavyweight rematch. The show begins at 1 PM...
Weight and Wait: GGG exactly at 160 pounds as the talk about Canelo continues
By Norm Frauenheim-
LOS ANGELES – Gennady Golovkin smiled. Said thanks. He might have kissed a few babies, too.
The middleweight, best known for his...
Going the distance with a changing GGG can be a deadly destination
By Norm Frauenheim-
CARSON, Calif. -- Going the distance with Gennady Golovkin is a dead end.
That, at least, is big part of the sales...
An infomercial for an infomercial for a . . .
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on an HBO telecast from Brooklyn middleweight mandatory challenger Danny “Miracle Man” Jacobs dropped and decisioned Polish junior middleweight Maciej “Certainly...
FOLLOW MAGDALENO – DOGBOE LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action ringside from The Liacouras Center in Philadelphia as Jessie Magdaleno defends the WBO Super Bantamweight title against Isaac Dogboe. The...
GGG-Canelo II? Still the only fight that makes sense and dollars
By Norm Frauenheim-
Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez are linked only by mutual contempt, genuine in tone and intensifying in the wake of the May...
Adrien “About Thousands” Broner, but still about 13 of them
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center overweight Ohio junior welterweight Adrien “About Billions” Broner lost a majority draw to Jessie “The Pride of Las...
FOLLOW BRONER – VARGAS LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action ringside from Barclays Center in Brooklyn as Adrien Broner takes on Jessie Vargas in a battle of former world champions. ...
FOLLOW FRAMPTON – DONAIRE LIVE
Follow all the action as Carl Frampton and Nonito Donaire fight for the Interim WBO Featherweight title. The fight begins at 5:15 PM ET.
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The real test of Canelo’s words awaits him
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez insists he is clean. Now, he has a chance to prove it.
The Nevada Athletic Commission gave...
Canelo suspension cut to six months, GGG rematch possible in September
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS -- Canelo Alvarez agreed to a six-month suspension and the Nevada Athletic Commission unanimously approved that agreement Wednesday, opening the...
Sunday breakfast with Ryota “HHH” Murata
By Bart Barry-
ESPN2 broadcast a middleweight title fight between Japan’s Ryota Murata and Italy’s Emanuel Blandamura at 0800 ET on Sunday morning. Right...
Mayweather still a media master in Faustian bargain that leads him back into harm’s...
By Norm Frauenheim-
Floyd Mayweather Jr. is as good at staying in the news as he was at staying a top the pound-for debate.
Evidence of...
Blonde Ambition
By Jimmy Tobin-
Jarrett “Swift” Hurd defeated Erislandy “The American Dream” Lara by split decision at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas,...
Column without end, part 16
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 15, please click here.
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STOW, Mass. - This town has doubled in density since I grew up here. ...
FOLLOW LARA – HURD LIVE
Follow all the action as Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd fight in an IBF/WBA Junior Middleweight unification bout. The co-feature will be a rematch...
Hearing of the Year: Canelo’s appearance before Nevada Commission is getting all of the...
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s not a promising year when the most anticipated moment is a hearing instead of an opening bell.
For now, however, that’s what...
Destiny still arrives…
By Jimmy Tobin
Heavyweight, Anthony “AJ” Joshua won a unanimous decision over Joseph Parker before a capacity crowd at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales,...
