Canelo gets the victory and the boos
LAS VEGAS – Canelo Alvarez got the victory. Got the boos, too
Alvarez won the fight, but failed to win back many of his disaffected...
FOLLOW ALVAREZ – ANGULO LIVE
Follow all the action LIVE as it happens when former Super Welterweight champions Canelo Alvarez and Alfredo Angulo fight in a 12 round bout....
Mayweather draws a crowd at any time and against anybody
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. was an hour late Saturday for his own news conference. But a crowd stuck around,...
Test Time: Canelo’s faces questions and Angulo in his first bout since his first...
By Norm Frauenheim
Canelo Alvarez hears the question more often than he saw Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s shoulder roll, roll and roll on a long,...
Mexican veterans, (former) Soviet newcomers, and autodidacts
SAN ANTONIO – In this city’s Alamodome on Saturday, before Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. could whup Austin’s Bryan Vera and position himself for...
Diaz prevails, Najera entertains, and Saucedo disappoints (somewhat) in South Texas
SAN ANTONIO – Houston lightweight Juan “Baby Bull” Diaz, a former world champion, found across from him in Saturday’s sixth and final off-television match...
Tough Sell: Mayweather will have an easier time beating Maidana
Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s biggest challenge on May 3 won’t come from Marcos Maidana. Not even Maidana’s heavy-handed power has much of a chance...
The Legend’s Son returns to returning
SAN ANTONIO – Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. returns to this city sometime in the next few days, returns to...
Vazquez defends Lightweight crown over Shafikov
Miguel Vazquez defended his IBF Lightweight title with a 12 round unanimous decision over Denis Shafikov at the Cotai Arena at the Venetian in...
Going To The Polls: Chavez Jr., Canelo are back and confident that their fans...
The first two Saturdays in March are a window that will provide a look at whether two heavily-hyped fighters, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr....
Dmitry Salita talks Ukrainian Politics situation
Former world title challenger and promoter Dmitry Salita talks about the recent political unrest that is going on his native Ukraine.
1. What are your...
Visiting “Age of Impressionism” while reading “Juan Diaz and the Age of Impressionism”
HOUSTON – Returned to Texas’ largest city and the fourth-largest city in our country, a day before a day we celebrate the father of...
Magdaleno stops Pazos in 4
Former world title challenger Diego Magdaleno scored a 4th round stoppage over Jorge Pazos in a scheduled 10 round Lightweight fight at the C....
History 101: Kathy Duva remembers what she doesn’t want Kovalev to repeat
Sergey Kovalev’s projected path to the top of the light-heavyweight division is at a stage in a well-worn process that is necessary, yet...
Juan Diaz and the Age of Impressionism
In the 1870s, a group of artists in Paris, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, decided to stop submitting their works to the official annual exhibition of...
Bling and blast: Maldonado stops Nater after four
SAN ANTONIO – Albuquerque welterweight Fidel Maldonado has the bling – sparkly purple trunks, gold trimmed, matching tights and safety-green boots – and occasional...
Malignaggi gets his Taub
SAN ANTONIO – A small band of boxing media and bystanders gathered Sunday afternoon near an entrance of the Home Depot Center in Alamo...
Only one winner in the Khan-Maidana poll
Polls can be as reliable as scorecards. About as scientific, too. That’s why it’s hard to know what to make of Floyd Mayweather...
An adieu to viciousness
The meaningful part of American welterweight “Vicious” Victor Ortiz’s odd career ended Thursday night in an off-Broadway show with an off-Broadway opponent, about seven...
Andy Nance: Boxing Lifer
The sport and business of boxing has a way of testing a participant’s resolve and determination. No matter what angle or level of involvement...
Joshua stops Darch in 2
Lee Selby
2012 Olympic Gold Medal winner Anthony Joshua scored a 3rd round stoppage over Dorian Darch in a scheduled 6 round Heavyweight bout.
Joshua...
One More Time: Pacquiao-Bradley rematch inevitable
Rematches can be predictable remakes, or tiresome redundancies, or just unnecessary. But Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley is none of the above. It had to...
Collazo knocks out Ortiz in two
Luis Collazo scored a stunning 2nd round stoppage over Victor Ortiz in a battle of former Welterweight title holders at Barclays Center in Brooklyn,...
Garcia is ready to be redeemed by Gamboa
Saturday in the little room at Madison Square Garden, Oxnard’s Mikey Garcia made another admirably professional showing, this time in the super featherweight division,...
Garcia defends 130 lb with decision over Burgos
NEW YORK--Mikey Garcia remained perfect as he scored a 12 round unanimous decision over Juan Carlos Burgos to retian the WBO Jr. Lightweight title...
Ali comparison to Sherman’s rant is just more trash talk
Richard Sherman’s controversial interview with Erin Andrews after Seattle’s NFL playoff victory over San Francisco is being interpreted and analyzed more often than...
The Legend’s Son comes back to home (too)
SAN ANTONIO – Thursday, Mexican “Son of the Legend” Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. strode across the Alamodome stage to a podium that would conceal,...
Sanchez blows out Demecillo in four
David Sanchez scored a 4th round stoppage over Marco Demecillo in a scheduled 12 round Super Flyweight bout in a Hermosillo, Mexico.
Sanchez dropped...
Stars Needed: Mikey Garcia makes the short list
The best in a new and diverse generation is about to make its claim on future stardom with a wave of new accents...
Procrastination’s affirmer: Notes from the craft
SAN ANTONIO – This week I began painting glass jugs instead of writing. Reading, socializing, Twitter, documentaries, laundry – all of these, it...
