Bart Barry
Carl Froch: Into the breach
By Bart Barry--
Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium British super middleweight titlist Carl “The Cobra” Froch stood before 80,000 of his countrymen, and across from...
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”...
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...
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...
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-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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
¡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...
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...
Canelo takes El Perro to the pound (and Tony Weeks keeps...
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...
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...
Chavez makes weight; Salido looks hopeless
SAN ANTONIO – What may well prove to be the most suspenseful moment of Saturday’s Chavez Jr.-Vera II card happened a day early when,...
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...
Visiting “Age of Impressionism” while reading “Juan Diaz and the Age...
HOUSTON – Returned to Texas’ largest city and the fourth-largest city in our country, a day before a day we celebrate the father 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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 2
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel...
Portrait of 2013’s most enjoyable week, part 1
The seven-day stretch in mid October that began the Saturday Timothy “Desert Storm” Bradley decisioned Juan Manuel “Dinamita” Marquez in Thomas & Mack Center...
Adam Berlin: The struggle of the art
My introduction to Adam Berlin’s writing came 4 1/2 years ago when he wrote for this site an account of Joshua Clottey’s preparations for...
The Problem, with schadenfreude
SAN ANTONIO – In the weeks to come, it will likely be discovered Adrien Broner suffered from a fatal strain of the deadlywhatever virus...
Broner and Maidana make weight, and Broner promises flat-line
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon in the western part of this city’s downtown area, Cincinnati welterweight Adrien “The Problem” Broner (27-0, 22 KOs) and...
Guillermo Rigondeaux: At the start of an audacious run that might...
Saturday Cuban world champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux reduced Ghanaian super bantamweight and former bantamweight titlist Joseph King Kong Agbeko, no quotes, to an...
Kovalev the thankless kolumn krusher
NEW ORLEANS – If this town is not a traditional place for giving thanks, an American ideal rendered ever more vestigial with each year’s...
Manny Pacquiao as Macau, in Macau
Saturday at Venetian Resort in Macau a passable imitation of Filipino welterweight Manny Pacquiao whacked about American Brandon Rios in a passable imitation of...
The joy of Andre Ward
American super middleweight Andre Ward is the sole prizefighter I routinely review in slow motion, the only active world champion whose subtleties bring a...
Nonito Donaire as fighter
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – There is a gorgeousness to the seashore that is difficult to debase, and yet this town nearly does it, lining...
The “Axe Man” cometh: Nicholas Walters chops down Alberto Garza in...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Jamaican featherweight Nicholas Walters calls himself the “Axe Man,” and in the opening round of Saturday’s final off-television fight,...
