Bart Barry
For an article about Mike Tyson, click here
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO - This column was supposed to be about a live theatrical performance by Mike Tyson, a review of sorts from...
Retired: Juarez loses to Castellanos and calls it a career
SAN ANTONIO - Rocky Juarez spent his career being an honest prizefighter who never quite found within himself a transcendent performance when the occasion...
With Mile High Mike as my mentor
By Bart Barry-
Ring the bell already, fool.
I’ve written so many great columns in the past. That’s why you read me. And I’m more prepared...
Deontay Wilder, and an aficionado’s permission slip
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas, undefeated American heavyweight Deontay Wilder saw his 32-fight knockout streak come to a quiet end against Bermane Stiverne....
Column without end, part 3
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 2, please click here.
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MARFA, Texas - This city sits in a little known region of our country called...
Portrait of HBO’s most-viewed fight of 2014, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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The week that began in February, ended in March and became the pinnacle of HBO...
Portrait of HBO’s most-viewed fight of 2014, part 1
By Bart Barry-
The week that began in February, ended in March and became the pinnacle of HBO boxing’s viewership feats in 2014 began on...
Column without end, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Part 1 can be found here.
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Every kid under the age of 25 on the Metro de Madrid has Sergio Martinez’s...
Column without end, part 1
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BARCELONA - At the metaphorical center of this autonomous place on the Mediterranean Sea, an ostensibly Spanish city much nearer France than...
Terence Crawford, and optimists and evangelists
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Saturday at CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraskan lightweight champion Terence Crawford decisioned Mexican Raymundo Beltran lopsidedly, 119-109 and 118-110 and 119-109, in...
Full gonzo: Sleeping through Pacquiao-Algieri
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The understated perfection of architect Louis I. Kahn’s soft marble masterpiece, Kimbell Art Museum, known round the world...
Pacquiao-Algieri: From opposite ends
By Bart Barry
Saturday at the Venetian in Macau, Filipino Manny Pacquiao will defend his welterweight title against New Yorker Chris Algieri, a junior welterweight...
Kovalev-Hopkins: The fight of 2014
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The most unexpected thing shared by guys who hit hardest is rarely how hard they hit or the speed of their attack....
Mental alignment, Bernard Hopkins and Sergey Kovalev
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SAN MARCOS, Texas – Three miles southwest of Texas State University is a mostly waterless stretch of terrain called Purgatory Creek Natural...
MFAH & GGG: Enduring doubts
By Bart Barry-
HOUSTON – Saturday this city’s largest art museum previewed for its members a fall exhibition, “Monet and the Seine,” that is unimpressive....
Harmonious manhood: Nicholas Walters, Nonito Donaire and Corey Holcomb
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HOUSTON – Saturday at Carson, Calif.’s StubHub Center, a great fight venue with a moronic name, Jamaican featherweight Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters...
The Axe Man cometh
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Saturday at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., in a co-main event broadcast by HBO and certain to be more entertaining than what...
Jhonny, El Travieso, and Devil’s River
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DEL RIO, Texas – A few miles south of here begins the Mexican state of Coahuila, and about 40 miles north of...
Canelo Alvarez, cable networks, and learned helplessness
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Another game changer happened Tuesday. It came with a series of email announcements and a conference call and probably a press conference,...
Travel box and away
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SAN ANTONIO – Saturday night I attended “Jazz’SAlive,” a two-day, free-admission jazz festival in the newly restored Travis Park, which abuts St....
An old Floyd is not the old Floyd
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in a rematch few aficionados demanded, fewer still watched, and fewer yet found entertaining as its...
Mayweather-Maidana 2: Circus of the sagging big top
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Saturday at MGM Grand, over which a 20-story Manny Pacquiao banner likely will not drape, American welterweight Floyd “Money” Mayweather will make...
When a quest for great spectacles leaves boxing behind
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FORT WORTH, Texas – There was a fight card in my hometown Saturday night, and I didn’t hesitate for a tick to...
Another afternoon press conference for a local card
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The temperature in the parking lot is a reminder just how badly abused is the word “sweltering” by Americans anywhere above of...
Prizefighting’s blurrily expressed intimacy
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A couple years ago, apropos of violence and documentaries and Pablo Picasso, too, a writer whose work I admire mentioned in a...
Henri Matisse, and absorbing the lessons of predecessors in a way...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – This city’s largest art museum, SAMA, is now in the throes of a three-month exhibition, “Matisse: Life in Color,”...
Sergey Kovalev, and the genuine possibility of being Krushed by an...
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...
GGG: Golovkin Gores Geale / Good Going Guys
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“Geale had the best credentials of anyone that’s gotten in the ring with him. Geale is a former two-time titlist.” – Gennady...
The Soviets are coming
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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!
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When Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fought countryman Alfredo Angulo in March, I attended a viewing party at the home of a Puerto...
Saul Alvarez: The cinnamon reckoning of an American promoter and a...
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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...
Terence Crawford: Ratified with a smile
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After nine years of sitting ringside at Top Rank shows – my first media credential came from Lee Samuels, in April 2005...
In celebration of 0s that went
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“Looks like in the next year or two, he is going to be a threat for any featherweight champion.”
The quote above belongs...
Chris Algieri: Mind over massacre
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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
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If we choose to believe all was well with Argentine southpaw Sergio “Maravilla” Martinez’s lower body when the opening bell rang on...
