A Krushing konclusion to a bad year’s worst week
By Bart Barry
Quick, off the top of your head, name the contracted terms of Sugar Ray Robinson’s rematch with Jake LaMotta in 1943. ...
Kovalev stops Agnew in 7 to retain Light Heavyweight crown
ATLANTIC CITY--Sergey Kovalev may not be getting the fight with Adonis Stevenson that he was hoping for, but he was professional in scoring three...
Respect? Bradley starts by looking at himself
By Norm Frauenheim
Just when Bernard Hopkins, Floyd Mayweather Jr., most of the NFL, NBA and major-league baseball have us convinced that disrespect...
¡Puro Duran!
By Bart Barry
Tuesday the WBC’s official Twitter account posted a picture of Roberto Duran embracing the late Esteban De Jesus, a picture I retweeted...
Poet and The Pac Man: Dylan’s visit with Pacquaio brings back some old lyrics
By Norm Frauenheim
It's not everyday that Bob Dylan just drops by. But there he was last week at the Wild Card Gym to...
Why I will be in Las Vegas in April
By Bart Barry
A few weeks back I did something I rarely do: I made plans to attend a Las Vegas fight, Timothy Bradley versus...
Glazkov decisions former world champ Adamek
BETHLEHEM, PA---Vyachslav Glazkov scored the biggest win of his career as he scored a 12 round unanimous decision over former two-division world champion Tomasz...
Danny Garcia has his own plan
By Norm Frauenheim
Danny Garcia might be the only fighter not trying to elbow his way toward the front of the line that leads to...
Canelo takes El Perro to the pound (and Tony Weeks keeps him awake)
By Bart Barry
Saturday in Las Vegas the redhead anointed by one very powerful Mexican television network as the man most likely to continue his...
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...
