Bart Barry
What I did with $8 on Saturday instead of paying $44.95...
SAN ANTONIO – There was an excellent festival here called “Jazz'Salive,” downtown, Saturday. Some rain and lots of clouds, too. The rain...
Laborious dudgeon everywhere
Another bad month in a dreadful year. Dudgeon is high, patience low. Civil disagreements between smart folks deteriorate into fights. Even...
Into a laboratory of fear
“Everyone always asks us who is going to be the next great heavyweight. Well, on Sept. 11, we feel it will be Sam...
Trancazos, Arizona and beer
There was “Trancazos” on Friday night. He waved to an Arizona crowd that didn’t much respond to his post-fight salute. He applauded...
Some easygoing messiness from the streets of South Texas
LAREDO, Tex. – A great Texas writer named John Graves once wrote a great Texas book named “Goodbye to a River” in which he...
Banditry in South Texas: Vazquez decisions Kim by unseemly scores
LAREDO, Tex. – The Lone Star State has developed an unfortunate reputation for awarding hometown fighters inexplicably wide decisions. But Guadalajara is not...
Alexander the Great (chinned)
Devon Alexander “The Great” says he is his own worst critic. He’s lucky that position is filled. Because if Alexander were accepting...
Marquez, combinations and contempt
LAS VEGAS – Juan Manuel Marquez might not be the man in this world you least wish to see in a dark alley. ...
Mastery never gets old, part two: Marquez decisions Diaz
LAS VEGAS – It was entertaining as a one-sided fight could be, but finally, “The Rematch” was a one-sided fight. Blame it on...
“The Rematch” is on: Weights from Mandalay Bay, and a Pacquiao...
LAS VEGAS – This town might be only a little bit closer to Houston than it is to Mexico City on a map, but...
Marquez and Diaz, and a race to bankruptcy
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” – Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises”
And...
An unstylish demand for a matchmaker and tournament
Here’s how I’d planned it. Timothy Bradley might be my favorite American prizefighter and so why not write a column mimicking his style...
Becoming the Pete Rose of boxing
“The conduct of both Mr. Margarito and Mr. Capetillo was unacceptable and threatened the health and safety of another licensee.” – Carrie Lopez, Director,...
Las Vegas in July
No, the upcoming rematch between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz does not belong on pay-per-view. Two fighters whose cumulative record is 1-2...
Chavez and Duddy, eggs and deep water
SAN ANTONIO – Here’s something you didn’t know. Saturday afternoon round 3:30 P.M., a young Texas amateur named Adam Reynolds almost didn’t make...
Chavez Jr. shows his mettle and surprises the Irish
SAN ANTONIO – By the 10th round, Mexican Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was marching forward, legs wide, feet crossing over, left shoulder lowered and...
Chavez Jr. weight controversy “nothing to get excited about”
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon at the Arneson River Theatre on the River Walk, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Ireland’s John Duddy both made...
Duddy looking to make bandwagons, not jump on them
SAN ANTONIO – Wednesday afternoon in Alamodome’s cavernous but air-conditioned arena, “Latin Fury 15” participants, managers and trainers joined Top Rank’s Bob Arum on...
Roach puts the open in Chavez Jr. open workout
SAN ANTONIO – Tuesday afternoon, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and his new trainer Freddie Roach conducted an open workout for local media that was...
Somebody’s mojo has got to go
At some point a word for the art of inducing black magic, “mojo,” became a synonym for momentum. Today there’s even a popular...
S.O.G., Sweetness and BDK
“Now is my time. I have to show and prove.” – Allan Green, June 8, 2010
“The non-resistible, non-competible – no, no, I’m not...
Great idea, good venue, questionable refereeing
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX. – All’s clear on the bay. While most boxing writers dined together and canvassed Yankee Stadium in the Bronx this...
Encountering Barrera: Deregulation, bad experiences, and Edwin Valero
It’s easy to find a professional athlete who will talk to you about his strengths. It’s only slightly harder to find one who...
No fury yet: Chavez Jr. meets the press at Alamodome
SAN ANTONIO – The son of legendary Mexican prizefighter Julio Cesar Chavez was at the Alamodome Thursday morning. He shared the stage with...
“It’s 2-2, and that’s the way that it should be”
LOS ANGELES – In the hot blood that came immediately after his loss, blood that had streamed in his left eye and made a...
Cyclists outside Staples Center; bicycles prohibited within
LOS ANGELES – Despite bleeding profusely from both eyes before 10 minutes of combat were up, Israel Vazquez never retreated in his fourth match...
Gentlemen make weight, Jesse James weighs-in, and Zaragoza can’t wait
LOS ANGELES – A place called the Star Plaza outside Staples Center on a Friday afternoon was a curious spot to stage a weigh-in...
“¡Híjole! It is going to be a fight”
Last Tuesday while the “Once and Four All” conference call happened, I sat beside Mexican Jorge “El Travieso” Arce. He was at Dave...
Fury to come: Arce and Morel are friends for now
SAN ANTONIO – Whoever turns out to be the better prizefighter on June 26, one thing is already certain. Puerto Rican Eric Morel...
The curious case of Kermit and Paul
Here’s what we know. Saturday two welterweight titlists made a non-title match at junior-middleweight on HBO’s “World Championship Boxing.” In the middle...
Finally
On Jan. 31, I wrote, “If he makes this fight with Mosley at the welterweight limit and beats him, however he does it, I’ll...
A great round, but Froch was subpar
“Don’t be afraid of the player with a good grip and a bad swing. Don’t be afraid of a player with a bad...
“A tremendous and incredible pride that is impossible to describe”
To see Sergio Martinez’s exuberance after Saturday’s fight, to hear him call a feeling inspired by the world middleweight championship “a tremendous and incredible...
Fulfilling its promise
Recent criticisms of Showtime’s “Super Six World Boxing Classic” are beginning to make a pattern, faint but detectable. The tournament’s critics appear not...
Los Angeles in May
I didn’t spend last weekend at Mandalay Bay. I couldn’t afford to. Even with the “media rate” for a room, it was...
