Bart Barry
Good as it gets
By Bart Barry-
Thursday at Super Arena not far from Tokyo, Japan’s
Naoya “The Monster” Inoue decisioned “The Filipino Flash” Nonito Donaire to win
WBSS’ bantamweight tournament...
Exactly as scripted
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at MGM Grand in a light heavyweight title fight
broadcasted by DAZN, Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarez discombobulated Russian
Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev in the...
Trafficking in honesty: Taylor decisions Prograis
By Bart Barry-
ATLANTA – Traffic shapes your view of everything
here, and you’re not ready for it.
You’re a medium-city guy who hails from one and...
I voted for Israel Vazquez simply because he is my favorite...
By Bart Barry-
Sometime last week or the one before, the ballot
arrived for this year’s International Boxing Hall of Fame election. It had too many...
A new question of geometry: Usyk attritions Witherspoon in heavyweight
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Chicago, 2018’s best fighter, Ukrainian
Oleksandr Usyk, made his first-yet heavyweight prizefight against former
American contender Chazz Witherspoon on DAZN, the aficionado’s...
The first underrated performance of the GGG canon
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a prizefight
broadcast on the aficionado’s network, DAZN, Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (no new ‘i’
needed; we go with...
The Truth is . . . Benavidez remained Saturday’s most intriguing...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Staples Center welterweight titlist
Errol “The Truth” Spence split-decisioned “Showtime” Shawn Porter and unified
the WBC and IBF titles in an entertaining...
Spence-Porter: Benavidez’ll steal Errol’s show again
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on a “FOX Sports is proud to present PBC
Pay-Per-View events” event in Los Angeles welterweight titlists Errol “The
Truth” Spence and “Showtime”...
Fury-Wallin fightweek: Thank heavens for Andy Ruiz
By Bart Barry-
Latenight Saturday on ESPN+ lineal heavyweight
champion Tyson Fury will defend his strapless title against an undefeated
28-year-old Swede named Otto Wallin, a man...
Lumbering tardily onto the Lomawagon
By Bart Barry-
Saturday a Thames riverboat ride east of London, one
of the world’s five best prizefighters, Ukrainian lightweight Vasiliy
Lomachenko, outfought Yorkshire’s Luke Campbell to...
Raw good: Estrada stops Beamon in Sonora
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Hermosillo’s practically named Centro
de Usos Multiples, Sonora’s Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada made a
harder-than-planned first defense of his Ring super...
Column without end, part 19
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 18, please click here
MEXICO CITY – Beautiful is a word I didn’t think to
associate with this city...
A thrilling act of violence: Ramirez razes Hooker in Texas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in a junior welterweight title-unification
match broadcast by the aficionado’s network, DAZN, California’s Jose Ramirez stopped
Texan Maurice Hooker midway through a wonderfully...
That One Time Keith Thurman faced a true champion
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Fox PPV in a match for the PBC’s
emeritus welterweight championship at MGM Grand undefeated titlist Keith “One
Time” Thurman got dropped...
This won’t be the One Time we get surprised by Keith...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Fox Sports pay-per-view Keith “One Time” Thurman defends his WBA “Super World” welterweight title against Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao in...
Column without end, part 18
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 17, please click here
SAN ANTONIO – This city’s McNay Art Museum, which
has figured heavily (for an art...
A column with a lot of potential
By Bart Barry-
There were recent fights aplenty with which a
grateful boxing writer might fashion a column, and this writer should be
grateful as any, writing...
A monkey, a flea, and the real meaning of Mexican Style
By Bart Barry-
Friday on a Golden Boy Promotions card that DAZN broadcast from Indio, Calif., super featherweight titlist Andrew “El Chango (The Monkey)” Cancio...
Elbows up, lads: The WBSS delivers us more violence
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Arena Riga in Latvia in a pair of
prizefights broadcasted by DAZN the World Boxing Super Series arrived at its
cruiserweight-finals pairing...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, 2019
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: In what has become an annual
tradition, Bart Barry ran out of ideas for his column. So we suggested he interview...
The funniest men on the planet
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden in a fight
broadcast by DAZN, statuesque world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and misshapen
challenger Andy Ruiz made quite...
The academy adapts: David Epstein’s “Range”
By Bart Barry-
Tomorrow, “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” (Riverhead Books) by David Epstein, author of “The Sports Gene”, will become available...
WBSS: At long last, something true
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Scotland the World Boxing Super Series held the final semifinals matches in its bantamweight and super lightweight divisions, and they...
Emanuel Navarrete beats the white towel out of Paul Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in the comain of an ESPN broadcast from Tucson, Mexican super bantamweight Emanuel Navarrete successfully defended his WBO world title by...
Some Cinnamon dust for boxing’s B+
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas Saul “Canelo” Alvarez further unified his undisputed status as world’s best middleweight by narrowly if unanimously decisioning IBF...
A blessed return to competitiveness
By Bart Barry-
After two weeks of exhibitionist fare boxing returned Friday and Saturday to competitive and excellent matches, excellent for being competitive. Or...
Late Prosperity: Welcome to the Khan game, Bud
By Bart Barry-
ZAPOPAN, Mexico – This is a place that looks like Guadalajara on a map but like Chapalita right next door holds itself...
Master hypothesis: Divining the hypothetical winner of a hypothetical fight for...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday morning (ET) once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight prodigy Vasiliy Lomachenko unconscioused Anthony Crolla before long in Los Angeles. Saturday night undefeated welterweight...
Lomachenko and Crolla are not El Paso club pros, and it’s...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight titlist Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko will successfully defend his title against Britain’s Anthony Crolla on ESPN+...
A partially pandering attempt to reach a new readership via KingRy
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in the mainevent of a Golden Boy-promoted and DAZN-broadcasted card from Indio, Calif., undefeated American lightweight Ryan “KingRy” Garcia (2.3m followers,...
The Truth will set you expensive: Spence edges Crawford at Purses...
By Bart Barry-
“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages...
All else failed, lead with your chin
By Bart Barry-
ARLINGTON, Texas - Saturday in the middle of AT&T Stadium in the middle of the DFW metroplex welterweight titlist Errol Spence beat...
Oh the controversy: Shawn “Fox Sports” Porter decisions Yordenis Ugas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Carson, Calif., American welterweight titlist “Showtime” Shawn Porter decisioned Cuban Yordenis Ugas by controversial splitdecision scores in an uncontroversially dull...
Preview of Spence-Garcia, part 1 (of one)
By Bart Barry-
Soon undefeated welterweight Texan titlist Errol Spence will defend his IBF belt against undefeated lightweight Californian titlist Mikey Garcia at AT&T (formerly...
Flunking the Tijuana exam
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in a prizefight between formerly good lightweights matched 15 pounds and nearly so many years past their primes Mexican...
