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...
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...
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...
Carl Froch: Into the breach
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium British super middleweight titlist Carl “The Cobra” Froch stood before 80,000 of his countrymen, and across from...
FOLLOW FROCH – GROVES LIVE
Follow all the action when Carl Froch and George Groves get it on in an highly anticipated Super Middleweight title rematch that will take...
Business Sense: Froch-Groves at Wembley is a lesson to feuding promoters about how to...
By Norm Frauenheim
London’s Wembley Stadium will be the stage Saturday for what figures to be a terrific rematch in the second edition...
Carl Froch, and the art of unjustifiable self-belief
By Bart Barry-
In a “Gloves Are Off” prefight conversation more entertaining than a highlight reel of every eerily scored “Face Off with Max Kellerman”...
Cotto’s ring skill is still his best social skill in fight with Martinez
By Norm Frauenheim--
Sergio Martinez probably won’t ever invite Miguel Cotto to a backyard barbecue. Martinez talks as if he just doesn’t like Cotto....
Juan Manuel Marquez: The definition of a prizefighter
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at the newly reopened Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Mexican “Dinamita” Juan Manuel Marquez and Colorado’s “Mile High” Mike Alvarado engaged in...
Back to the Future: Arum’s return to The Forum takes him back to familiar...
By Norm Frauenheim--
Boxing returns to a place Saturday that helped re-define the business in a way that allowed it to move beyond the Sugar...
Austin: Gallery Tour and Mandingo Warrior
By Bart Barry--
AUSTIN, Texas – Somewhere round here, likely on currently gentrified streets once mean, James “Mandingo Warrior” Kirkland roamed and terrorized sparring partners...
Options? Chavez Jr. running on empty
By Norm Frauenheim--
There are losers aplenty in the wake of the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Gennady Golovkin possibility headed to never-never land, right...
Marcos Maidana: Unplanned-for, undissuaded
By Bart Barry--
After their Saturday welterweight match at MGM Grand, American Floyd “Money” Mayweather and Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana proffered a study in...
Mayweather escapes with a majority decision over Maidana
By Norm Frauenheim-
LAS VEGAS – It was supposed to be easy. It wasn’t.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. got the victory that oddsmakers,...
