Lomachenko, Rigondeaux to test each other and the state of the game
By Norm Frauenheim-
Boxing loves comebacks and it looks as if a business always reported to be dying might be poised to make another one.
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Pretty in Pink: On Miguel Cotto
By Jimmy Tobin-
There are worse ways to retire. In a sport that rarely bids its fraternity a kindly farewell, Miguel Cotto, who dropped a...
Goodbye to Miguel Cotto: A well-publicized and honestly blank canvas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday HBO said goodbye to Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto who lost a close but fair decision to New York’s Sadam...
FOLLOW COTTO – ALI LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action as Miguel Cotto rides off into the sunset as he defends the WBO Super Welterweight title against Sadam Ali. The...
Gold Road: This time it’s for money instead of medals
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s historical for the continuum that Vasily Lomachenko and Guillermo Rigondeaux represent. Four gold, two each, at four Olympics over 12...
Krushing it: Kovalev stuffs us with memories of a better Thanksgiving weekend
By Bart Barry-
Saturday Russian light heavyweight Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev laid waste to an otherwise-anonymous Ukrainian named Vyacheslav “Two YYs” Shabranskyy in the sort of...
FOLLOW KOVALEV – SHABRANSKYY LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Sergey Kovalev looks to regain the WBO Light Heavyweight title against Vyacheslav Shabranskyy. The action begins at 10 PM...
End of the Beginning: A New Year looms amid promising signs in 2017
By Norm Frauenheim-
Three notable fights over nearly five-and-a-half weeks between now and a New Year are the end of what might be another beginning.
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Thanksgiving meanderings and musings
By Bart Barry-
Contrary to accepted architectural practices, this part of this column generally gets written last. You’re supposed to tell them what you’re...
Goodbye doesn’t sound like a temporary gesture from Cotto
By Norm Frauenheim-
His face is the portrait of a fighter. It’s a mix of stoicism and toughness. There’s an unblinking gaze that says he...
Curing insomnia with the Miracle Man
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Nassau Coliseum, former home of the New York Islanders, Brooklyn “Miracle Man” Daniel Jacobs decisioned someone named Luis Arias on...
Back In The USA: Kovalev hopes to put a Russian thanks into T-Day
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s hard to know what Sergey Kovalev knows about Thanksgiving, a uniquely American holiday. But he fights a couple days after Turkey...
Brief, eyewitness accounts from the career of Jesus Soto Karass
By Bart Barry-
Late Thursday night on one of ESPN’s innumerable affiliates Dominican journeyman Juan Carlos Abregu beat up Mexican journeyman Jesus Soto Karass. ...
FOLLOW WILDER – STIVERNE 2 LIVE!!
Follow all the action as WBC Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder defends his crown against Bermane Stiverne from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY The action...
FOLLOW BIVOL – BROADHURST LIVE!!
Follow all the action as Dmitry Bivol defends the WBA Light Heavyweight championship against Trent Broadhurst. The action begins from Monte Carlo at 5:45...
Soto Karass knocked through the ropes, but not ready to say no more after...
By Norm Frauenheim-
TUCSON, Ariz. – It was a tough way to say goodbye, so tough that Jesus Soto Karass might want to try it...
The Big Reveal
By Jimmy Tobin-
Anthony Joshua retained his heavyweight hardware with a tenth-round stoppage of typically game Carlos Takam at the near-bursting Principality Stadium in Cardiff,...
Joshua-Takam-Edwards: A professional showing all round
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in an enormous Welsh rugby stadium heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua beat Franco-Cameroonian Carlos Takam by a round-10 referee stoppage whose...
FOLLOW JOSHUA – TAKAM LIVE
Follow all the action as undefeated Anthony Joshua defends the WBA/IBF World Heavyweight title against late replacement Carlos Takam from Cardiff, Wales. The action...
Let’s Get Ready To Negotiate: Joshua-Wilder on the table with back-to-back bouts
By Norm Frauenheim-
Nobody needs to announce “let’s get ready to negotiate’’ before Saturday’s Carlos Takam-Anthony Joshua fight in the UK and the Bermane Stiverne-Deontay...
Trying to give N’Dam about Ryota Murata
By Bart Barry-
Early Sunday morning on ESPN2 a fight for a middleweight title of some sort featured Japan’s Ryota Murata and Franco-Cameroonian Hassan N'Dam...
Hall Of Fame voting: Morales, Vitali Klitschko at the top of the ballot
By Norm Frauenheim-
Erik Morales and Vitali Klitschko are at the head of the 2017 class on the ballot for inductions to the International Boxing...
Bigmouth Strikes Again
By Jimmy Tobin-
Jermall Charlo, the more aggressive, harder punching of Kevin and Terrie’s twin boys, climbed the ropes of the USC Galen Center in...
Column without end, part 15
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 14, please click here.
AUSTIN, Texas - We’ll get to the meat of this column quickly, but first a...
FOLLOW THREE 154 POUND WORLD TITLES LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action Live from ringside at Barclays Center as three world titles in the 154 pound division are contested. In the main...
Nothing junior about 154 anymore
By Norm Frauenheim-
It’s one of those hyphenated divisions once lost amid the proliferation of them. Call it light, Call it junior. But don’t call...
Mosaic of violent impulses: Enforcers, a dog and an armadillo
By Bart Barry-
Recently my Saturday hike saw a canine companion turn instantly from goldenfleeced cutie to predatory lightning bolt. Still more recently Netflix...
Heavyweights still the Ho-Hum division
By Norm Frauenheim-
Wladimir Klitschko retired only two months ago. I’m already starting to miss him.
The more the heavyweights change, the more they stay the...
Column without end, part 14
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 13, please click here.
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CUSCO, Peru - The morning air is crisp here in the Andes, 11,000-foot-altitude crisp, and...
Re-energized pound for-pound debate full of possibilities
By Norm Frauenheim-
Andre Ward’s surprising retirement, Roman Gonzalez’ sad defeat and the scorecard controversy still brewing over the Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez draw is re-energizing...
