Bart Barry
One last interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer
By Bart Barry (For the final time)--
Editor’s note: After 16 years of boxing writing, Bart Barry now retires. As we’ve allowed him a space...
Joe Smith Jr. and a triumphant tiring
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN in an entertaining and honest title fight at an Oklahoma casino New York light heavyweight Joe Smith Jr. majority-decisioned...
The redemption enviable
By Bart Barry-
Saturday afternoon on ESPN+ in a match from Dubai junior lightweight titlist Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring beat-up Northern Ireland’s Carl “The Jackal”...
Dillian Whyte is a class act
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in a heavyweight rematch for an interim title London’s Dillian “The Body Snatcher” Whyte snatched the remainder of Russian...
Y’all ain’t booing Mighty Mo no more
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Fort Worth undefeated welterweight prospect Vergil Ortiz made an entertaining match with fellow Texan and former 140-pound titlist Maurice “Mighty...
A fight that matters is all that matters
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in maskless Dallas a match genuinely anticipated by our sport’s genuine aficionados happens for The Ring’s 115-pound championship. Mexican...
Modelo nuevo de Canelo
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN super middleweight champion and world’s best prizefighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez went through WBC mandatory challenger Avni “Turkey Wolf” Yildirim...
Oscar, Eddy and the power of powerful questions
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas undefeated Mexican Oscar Valdez dropped Mexican titlist Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt, The Ring’s number one super featherweight, thrice...
Jo Jo can went went
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in a non-title match, the fighting pride of Tajikistan, undefeated super featherweight Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov, settled for a majority draw...
In lieu of boxing: An account of getting the second Coronavirus...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – We’ve got Covid back under control here, partially, and if we hold the line while vaccinations take their effect...
What’s unrewarding: Caleb Plant defends some title
By Bart Barry -
Saturday in Los Angeles in a match broadcast by FOX PBC relocated Tennessean Caleb “Sweethands” Plant decisioned Minnesota’s Caleb Truax...
Not in Dallas, not in a pandemic
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Covid cases here last week were about 35-percent higher than during the peak of the summer awfulness, bad enough...
One Monday in January
By Bart Barry-
The doldrums are upon us. Winter is come. While cable news broadcasts the final hours of America’s worst president, Netflix serially releases...
In lieu of boxing: An account of getting the Coronavirus vaccine
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Wednesday evening I received the first of two Moderna SARS-COV-2 vaccination shots in my left arm. As there’s nothing...
Brakes on a racecar: Ioka stops Tanaka
By Bart Barry-
New Year’s Eve, Japan Standard Time, Japanese super flyweight Kazuto Ioka defended his title by eight-round stoppage over undefeated Japanese super flyweight...
Canelo Go
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Nine days since we put an irresponsible number of aficionados in Alamodome this city hasn’t time to calculate new...
What a disappointment Callum Smith was
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Into this friendly city whose citizens have been generally vigilant about Covid, vigilant as local officials have required, many...
AJ’s rehabilitating his reputation while Canelo’s doing a hell of a...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Wembley Arena, in its cafeteria or lobby, British heavyweight titlist Anthony “AJ” Joshua went through in nine rounds a limited...
Spence-Garcia 2, as it were
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at AT&T Stadium in the Covid hotspot of Texas at the end of a PBC on FOX pay-per-view card, welterweight titlist...
Humiliation is more frightening than pain
By Bart Barry-
Friday’s super middleweight fight was awful. Saturday’s welterweight fight should be excellent. Saturday’s heavyweight farce wasn’t bad at all. There’s no laying...
Canelo-Smith: A fight to die for
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon this city landed the biggest prizefight of the rest of the year when promoter Matchroom Boxing announced...
A prime squandering apace
By Bart Barry -
Saturday in the Bubble at MGM Grand in the mainevent of a dreadful ESPN card Nebraskan Terence “Bud” Crawford needed...
Along we go
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – We’ve got COVID under control round here in a way many of our countrymen haven’t. It affords this friendly...
Too much: Three favorites in two weeks
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in England in a heavyweight match broadcast by DAZN, Ukrainian cruiserweight prodigy Oleksandr Usyk worked alongside London’s Dereck Chisora to show...
Returned to Chocolatito City, and it feels so right
By Bart Barry-
Friday in Mexico City in the co-main and main event of a DAZN card Nicaraguan Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez defended his WBA super...
Teofimo Lopez takes over
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in The Bubble in the long-anticipated mainevent of a long ESPN card Brooklyn’s Teofimo Lopez conclusively decisioned Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko to...
The most-anticipated prizefight on our calendar
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN in The Bubble Ukrainian lightweight world champion Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko makes a title-unification match with Teofimo “El Brooklyn” Lopez...
Proper matchmaking on a proper platform
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ California’s Jose Zepeda and Belarus’ Ivan Baranchyk made a junior welterweight nontitle fight that should prove the year’s best. ...
Well-rested writing
By Bart Barry-
Saturday afternoon, Central Time, Scotland’s Josh “The Tartan Tornado” Taylor broke in half undefeated Thai super lightweight Apinun Khongsong with a round...
Saturday on Showtime in a super welterweight match
By Bart Barry-
Florida’s Erickson Lubin decisioned Cleveland’s Terrell Gausha by unanimous scores nobody cared to contest. The prizefight’s quality, and the year’s economic developments,...
Proper $5.99/month fare
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ oncedefeated Lithuanian welterweight Egidijus Kavaliauskas made a decisive and violent recovery of his mainevent match with Canada’s oncedefeated Mikael...
“Real eyes real-ize”
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday evening at quittin’ time came the first COVID-19 emergency notification in more than a month, and this time,...
Trying to care: Ramirez decisions Postol on ESPN+
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ in Las Vegas undefeated American junior welterweight titlist Jose Ramirez went 12 successful rounds with Ukrainian technician Viktor Postol...
Porter, Povetkin, Smith, Roomba
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in three mainevents that miraculously did not conflict and more miraculously concluded before midnight ESPN’s Joe Smith beat the fight out...
David Benavidez: The thrill is going
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Showtime undefeated former super middleweight titlist David “El Bandera Roja” Benavidez stopped Colombian ironchin Roamer Alexis Angulo with 10 rounds...
