Enthusiasm off the scale for Mayweather-Pacquiao
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – It was a carnival and a concert. It was chaotic. Demonstrators protesting domestic violence stood on one street...
Some perspective on Mayweather – Pacquiao
By Joseph Davey
For me and I’m sure many boxing fans, Saturday’s superfight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao brings with it equal parts excitement...
What Rivalry? A common fight links Roach and Mayweather Sr.
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – There’s not a day, or even a few hours, when there isn’t a volley of insults between Floyd...
Pacquiao back at the bully-pulpit
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Manny Pacquiao is back at the bully pulpit like a saint among sinners. Boxing has never been...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER AND MANNY PACQUIAO FINAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES
LAS VEGAS (April 29, 2015) – Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao faced off for only the third time Wednesday during the final...
$: It’s the symbol that means more to Mayweather than the 0
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Look into the 0 and you’re supposed to get a look into Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s soul.
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The big payout
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, before a crowd likely to comprise not one person reading this column, American Floyd Mayweather finally...
Bet On History: Mayweather ups ante and pressure by saying he’s better than Ali
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been more CEO than TBE from the moment he took the initiative and approached Manny Pacquiao at a...
Truth and Beauty: Crawford, Piano, Khan, Provodnikov and Matthysse
By Bart Barry-
FORT WORTH, Texas - This is not the city where Terence Crawford fought Saturday. But it is part of an enormous thing...
The Real Story: It’s in what Mayweather and Pacquiao aren’t saying
By Norm Frauenheim--
The curtain has come down on media day, a big-fight ritual that like so much in boxing is an interpretative art.
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Without Premier: Bud, Rocky and Machine
By Bart Barry--
Saturday brings a cleansing of the palate, doesn’t it, a reminder of a painfully missed time when you watched boxing because you...
FOLLOW GARCIA – PETERSON; LEE-QUILLIN LIVE FROM RINGSIDE
Follow all the action live as it happens from Barclays Center as world champions Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson square off in a welterweight...
Forget Redemption: Garcia-Peterson is about recognition
By Norm Frauenheim-
Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson are quick to say they aren’t fighting for redemption Saturday night at Barclays in Brooklyn.
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Gabe Oppenheim, and one of the last good books about boxing
By Bart Barry--
“If you’re gonna write about boxing, you need facts and grittiness and maybe even some awkward bad writing. It can’t be perfect....
Provodnikov-Matthysse: A Corrales-Castillo sequel?
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s a fight that really doesn’t need much in the way of explanation or analysis. Strip away all of the subtlety and...
Gary Russell Jr, and the end of cable sports journalism
By Bart Barry--
Saturday, Showtime’s preternaturally gifted Gary Russell Jr., an Al Haymon fighter, knocked-out the hardest puncher in Mexican history, Jhonny Gonzalez, on Showtime,...
Adonis Answer: Stevenson fights to ignore the Kovalev question
By Norm Frauenheim--
It’s the question Adonis Stevenson can’t shake. It’s there when he wakes up and sits down for breakfast. It’s there when he...
Column without end, part 7
By Bart Barry--
Editor’s note: For part 6, please click here.
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BURNET, Texas - We begin here, again, with a thought experiment of sorts, before hiking...
Junior to Senior: Only a grown-up Chavez can win this fight
By Norm Frauenheim--
Boxing was never meant to be the family business. Fathers fight so their sons don’t have to. That sounds like a...
Of Soviets and athletes
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO - If you’re reading this column, it is highly probable you watched on HBO Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev’s Saturday reduction...
On The Stage: Mayweather-Pacquiao a fight between different personalities
By Norm Frauenheim--
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao stood side-by-side in what was the third time they have ever been seen within a...
Follow Thurman – Guerrero; Broner – Molina LIVE
Follow all the action as Keith Thurman defends the WBA Welterweight title against Robert Guerrero. The action kicks off at 8:30 PM /...
Bet on the Future: Haymon, NBC go back to an old model in search...
By Norm Frauenheim--
Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) begins Saturday on NBC in prime time amid anticipation and some skepticism. It’s risky. It’s...
Column without end, part 6
By Bart Barry--
Editor’s note: For part five, please click here.
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But how will this influence resolve itself?
Three of the most influential artists of the 20th...
Clueless: Kovalev has heard from the best, yet Pascal still talks trash
By Norm Frauenheim--
Jean Pascal is called quick for hands that can put punches together in rapid succession. He’s called quick for graceful feet...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: It’s OK to be happy
By Bart Barry--
The announcement came sometime Thursday, or maybe Tuesday, the announcement there would be an announcement coming soon from a professional athlete about...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: Negotiations have been the biggest show
By Norm Frauenheim--
A nervous rash escalated to full-blown panic on social media Thursday when speculation about the Floyd Mayweather Jr.- Manny Pacquaio negotiations reached...
Column without end, part 5
By Bart Barry--
Editor’s note: For part 4, please click here.
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It is a question of competence much as intent.
That is where boxing now stumbles in...
Back To The Future: Douglas-Tyson an escape from today
By Norm Frauenheim-
A week-long celebration of the 25-year anniversary of Buster Douglas’ upset of Mike Tyson is a revealing look at where boxing...
