Bart Barry
One aficionado’s return to Showtime Boxing
By Bart Barry-
He fumbles on his cell, trying to recall why he deleted the ESPN+ app, or if he did, or at least when...
A tepid celebration for what’s competitive
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in the main event of a card from England’s Fight Camp, and therefore blessedly broadcast early afternoon here in...
Self-organization: Vergil, Samuel and Sergio
By Bart Barry -
Friday DAZN returned to boxing broadcasting with a good mainevent from Indio, Calif., in which undefeated Texas welterweight Vergil Ortiz...
Chaucer, Brown, The Marquez and a lil’ Yori Boy
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – No reprieve. The grim numbers grow grimmer each evening as a fine local publication, RivardReport, sends its weeknightly communique...
Observing the glow
By Bart Barry-
Last week while reading The Wind in the Reeds by Wendell Pierce, I reflected on what it was about Pierce’s character, The...
The lost immersion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday the emergency alert came on everyone’s cell round noon local time and read “punishable by a fine of...
Silly boxing / Serious events
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday the emergency alert came on everyone’s cell at 7:00 PM local time and read STAY HOME, a first...
Joy in a book well-constructed
By Bart Barry-
Tuesday marked the publication date of Toronto writer Jimmy Tobin’s Killed in Brazil? The mysterious death of Arturo “Thunder” Gatti (Hamilcar Publications,...
And a lunatic shall lead us
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday I went for a drive in a random direction and learned a bit more about the spread of...
Tuesday’s tentative Return
By Bart Barry-
Tuesday evening on ESPN undefeated American featherweight titlist “Fearless” Shakur Stevenson will make a 10-round match with Puerto Rico’s oncedefeated Felix Caraballo...
An inexpert column by someone who didn’t even wish to write...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Onto the kindling of this city’s massive unemployment and bursting foodbank lines and COVID-19 fear and socialdistancing alienation dropped...
Two rounds on the heavybag hearing Barry White, May 2011
By Bart Barry-
beeenk … beeenk … beeenk
Get it swinging stiff it arm it bring the hook hard sand unsoftened heaviness heaviness dig the hook...
Highschool fourballers, German vampires and vanishing defiance
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – A curious scenario now plays in this city re COVID-19. Told they can come out their residences and resume...
An interview with the quarantined boxing writer by the quarantined boxing...
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Since 2016 we’ve allowed Bart Barry to interview himself about the state of the craft once annually when he is...
Ghostwriting for Kevin Barry in West Texas
By Bart Barry-
Hotel Viejoyhermoso, San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, on a Friday evening in June 2012
Worst scorecard I’ve seen, you, Bruce?
What were you...
Sans boxing Saturdays: Atocha, Velazquez and Petruchio
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Nothing is returned to normal, not even our last catastrophe’s new normal, and it becomes more obvious the few...
One way to create layers in writing
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Ten years ago I moved here and
promptly failed an eye test for my Texas drivers license so badly the...
What I like about that is . . . and another...
By Bart Barry--It’s an exercise we did in a coaching workshop in Boston to help coaches listen more deeply and improvise more freely with...
Writing for those who love to read
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon, 10 miles southeast
of here, restrictions got eased by local government and free COVID-19 testing
became much more accessible...
Staying at Home for Leaders
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Frantic is the word for it. I sat on the back porch Saturday morning and watched through the yards...
Reading in a time of quarantine
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO – If writing this column in a time of
quarantine has advantages they are not immediately apparent. This city has reacted...
Re-viewing Fury-Wilder 2
By Bart Barry-
Initiative is the word for it.
It’s what Deontay Wilder had in the first match
and lacked in the second, the first 30 seconds...
Chocolatito City rebuilt
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Chocolatito City
was a five-part series written in the doldrums of 2016.
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Saturday in Frisco, Texas, Nicaraguan Roman
“Chocolatito” Gonzalez defeated Birmingham’s Khalid...
Fury-Wilder 2: Here we go again
By Bart Barry-
“Playing to strengths delivers excellence; merely
fixing weaknesses does not.” – Paddy Upton, “The Barefoot Coach”
Saturday in Las Vegas, British heavyweight Tyson
“Gypsy King”...
Can’t stand to see Chocolatito’s last stand
By Bart Barry-
Three Saturdays from now a comain at the Dallas
Cowboys’ practice facility will feature Nicaragua’s Roman “Chocolatito”
Gonzalez, the once king of our beloved...
They can’t all be Izzy and Rafa
By Bart Barry-
Thursday in the co-comain event of a Super Bowl
week fightcard broadcast by DAZN from a shady Miami venue called Meridian at
Island Gardens...
Compelled to dissolve compulsion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – In the center of this city there’s a
Greyhound bus station. In the center of
most U.S. cities there’s a Greyhound...
J Rock’s swing in the Banana hammock
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Philadelphia’s Liacouras Center in a super welterweight title-unification fight broadcast by Fox, Dominican slugger Jeison “Banana” Rosario beat-down Philadelphia’s Julian...
Carolina blue / Alamo red
By Bart Barry-
CHARLOTTE – This city is its state’s largest by
quite a bit, and some years ago the Associated Press offended Charlotteans, if
not all...
Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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Cowboys Stadium be an immense edifice and not
until you are suspended in its gravitational force,...
Mosaic of 2019’s most average pay-per-view event, part 1
By Bart Barry-
We were back at Cowboys Stadium in March to see two
of the world’s best prizefighters scrap with one another in a captivating...
Fighter of the Decade: Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
By Bart Barry-
And our king returned on the final days of the
decade to save us. Exiled 31 months since
a highpaying debacle of a battle...
The erosion of Bud Crawford
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a fight for the ESPN welterweight title Nebraska’s Terence “Bud” Crawford stopped Lithuania’s Egidijus “Mean Machine”...
Just awful
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in a rematch of a wonderful June
title fight, Anthony “AJ” Joshua decisioned lopsidedly Andy “Destroyer” Ruiz by
scores nobody should...
Bring us more fun!
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Sunday nights at Arena
Coliseo, downtown, are noches familiares (family nights) when the lucha libre
begins at 6:00 PM local time. ...
