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...
Column without end, part 4
By Bart Barry--
Editor’s note: For part 3, please click here.
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Another week comes to pass in the decisive erosion of public interest in our sport....
Back in the USA: Klitschko return is real instead of rumor
By Norm Frauenheim -
Wladimir Klitschko’s return to America coincides with talks that are holding a sport hostage all over again. The heavyweight’s...
For an article about Mike Tyson, click here
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO - This column was supposed to be about a live theatrical performance by Mike Tyson, a review of sorts from...
Mayweather-Pacquiao Summit: Talk elevates chances at the fight to a new peak
By Norm Frauenheim
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao went one-on-one in an old-school way almost forgotten by all the methods offered by social...
With Mile High Mike as my mentor
By Bart Barry-
Ring the bell already, fool.
I’ve written so many great columns in the past. That’s why you read me. And I’m more prepared...
Pacquiao-Mayweather talks continue, but what’s left to say?
By Norm Frauenheim--
It’s hard to recall when there wasn’t talk about Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. Brandon Rios and Mike Alvarado are about to...
Deontay Wilder, and an aficionado’s permission slip
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas, undefeated American heavyweight Deontay Wilder saw his 32-fight knockout streak come to a quiet end against Bermane Stiverne....
FOLLOW STIVERNE – WILDER LIVE
Follow all the action LIVE from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as Bermane Stiverne defends the WBC Heavyweight title against undefeated knockout artist...
No Cotto-Canelo: May 2 fight is off the table
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez still plans to fight on May 2, but it looks as if he won’t be fighting...
