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,...
De La Hoya: Nobody is going to fire Richard Schaefer
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Oscar De La Hoya, founder of Golden Boy Promotions, said he is fighting for his company and that...
FOLLOW MAYWEATHER – MAIDANA LIVE
Follow all the action live as Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana meet in a WBA/WBC Welterweight unification bout. A big 3-fight undercard will take...
UPDATE–Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
By Norm Fraienheim--
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
What Distractions? Glovegate breaks out in controversy before Mayweather-Maidana
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. complained about the lack of padding at the knuckles of Marcos Maidana’s gloves in a...
Schaefer gets some B-Hop support in his rift with De La Hoya
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – The Golden Boy Promotions divide between CEO Richard Schaefer and founder Oscar De La Hoya appeared to widen...
The Show: The news-conference stage belonged to Mayweather
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – Showtime executive Stephen Espinoza called Floyd Mayweather Jr. “a show” and Mayweather proved him right throughout a news conference...
Mayweather-Maidana: A master’s secrets to making Money
By Bart Barry--
Saturday American Floyd “Money” Mayweather will fight once more at MGM Grand, this time with Argentine Marcos “El Chino” Maidana, in a...
No promises, but does Mayweather’s ‘A’ game mean a KO?
By Norm Frauenheim-
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has said repeatedly during the promotional push to his May 3 bout with Marcos Maidana that nobody has...
Bernard Hopkins’ alien charm
By Bart Barry--
What if Michael Jordan came back tomorrow, at age 51, and won an NBA championship with, say, the Washington Wizards for whom...
Follow Hopkins – Shumenov LIVE
Follow all the action live as Bernard Hopkins and Beibut Shumenov meet in a Light Heavyweight unification bout. the action start at 9:30...
Hopkins schools Shumenov; only gets split decision but unifies Light Heavy belts
49 year-old Bernard Hopkins continued to make history as scored a 12 round split decision pver Beibut Shumenov to to retain his IBF and...
Quigg destroys Munyai in 2 to retain Super Bantamweight title
Scott Quigg retained the WBA Super Bantamweight title with a 2nd round stoppage over late replacement Tshifiwa Munyai.
Quigg dropped Munya in round round with...
EARLY RESULTS FROM VERONA, NY
Nat Heaven remained undefeated by scoring an explosive 1st round stoppage over Donovan Dennis in a scheduled 8-round Heavyweight bout.
Both guys landed heavy shots...
Lots of noise, but one fan said it all about the game that never...
By Norm Frauenheim
During a noisy week when the shouting got louder and the insults grew more insulting, there was a moment of relief...
Pacquiao-Bradley 2: Settling scores
By Bart Barry-
LAS VEGAS – Having scored the first match between American Timothy Bradley and Filipino Manny Pacquiao the wrong way from ringside, I...
It’s Unanimous: Pacquiao gets back what he lost with a decision over Bradley
LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t everything Manny Pacquiao promised. But it was enough, more than enough to put his Filipino presidential ambitions...
No Villains: On any scale, Bradley and Pacquiao make for a good sequel
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – It’s a fight without a villain. Timothy Bradley tried to play the role Friday at the weigh-in for...
Compassion a double-edged dilemma for Pacquiao
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – A compassionate Manny Pacquiao can’t win. That’s the popular theory, anyway. Pacquiao Freddie Roach introduced it. Media...
Arum rips MGM Grand for Mayweather-Maidana posters during Pacquiao-Bradley week
By Norm Frauenheim--
LAS VEGAS – A rematch Saturday marked mostly by polite exchanges between Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley suddenly got a shot...
Return to the scene of a “robbery”
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, not Macao, undefeated American welterweight Timothy Bradley will make a rematch of his...
Farewell? Not Bernard Hopkins, who always says hello to a challenge
By Norm Frauenheim--
A couple days after 40-year-old New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter began a long goodbye to baseball with the first stop in...
