Bart Barry
Reign of indiscriminate blows
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Outside the coffeeshop where this effort happens Nature is entirely mixed-up, leafless branches beside trees suddenly in bloom beside...
Andrew Cancio in a better league: DAZN delivers
By Bart Barry
Saturday in California on a surprisingly rich card of mostly anonymous fighters (outside the Golden State anyway) DAZN and Golden Boy Promotions...
Krusher’s mean regression to the mean
By Bart Barry-
Saturday or Sunday on ESPN+ Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev decisioned Colombian Eleider “Storm” Alvarez in Texas to reclaim one of the titles...
Swinging at superfluousness
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Not even a threehour drive from where this was written, Saturday night at Houston’s Toyota Center Mexican super welterweight...
Swindle, young man, swindle!
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on a Showtime pay-per-view broadcast for the gullible and nostalgic Filipino great Manny Pacquiao decisioned American mediocre Adrien Broner by unanimous...
Hatin’ on AB
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Showtime Pay-Per-View Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao looks to avenge his 2015 loss to Floyd Mayweather by shoving his left fist...
2018 Corpus cumbia, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
Local politicians say San Antonio is the fastest growing city in the country, which may...
2018 Corpus cumbia, part 1
By Bart Barry-
2017’s end-of-year romp, a mosaicked effort about Chocolatito’s abrupt plunge from boxing’s apex, brought an examination of conscience that lauded what salutary...
Jermell, Jermall and a problem of timing
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn on Fox, in the debut of a new business model by which the PBC receives money for presenting its...
Heading home in South Texas
By Bart Barry-
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A mile south of American Bank Center stands the Selena Memorial, known as Mirador de la Flor. ...
El Zurdo serves for the win in South Texas
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Their first match in 2017 was close and controversial. Their rematch was closer but less controversial.
Friday at American Bank...
Remembering to forget
By Bart Barry-
More historic happenings, Saturday, more unforgettable things you’ve already forgotten, more unbelievable events you believe completely. At New York’s Hulu Theater...
Scorecards: I REALLY DON’T CARE DO U?
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles two heavyweights battled for a significant part of the world championship and surpassed expectations en route to a...
Wilder-Fury: Serious analysts need not apply
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles undefeated 6-foot-9 Brit Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury will toe the line with undefeated 6-foot-7 American Deontay “The...
Good for Maurice Hooker, good for boxing
By Bart Barry-
Friday night in Oklahoma, Saturday morning east of there, undefeated Dallas junior welterweight Maurice Hooker successfully defended his WBO title by stopping...
Oleksandr Usyk – our wonderful secret
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in England undefeated Ukrainian southpaw Oleksandr Usyk defended his trove of cruiserweight world titles - Ring, WBA, IBF, WBC, WBO -...
Unfortunate sympathy’n the Super Series
By Bart Barry-
Saturday brought yet another delightful multihour multiplatform celebration of a sport even weekly columnists feared might die four years ago (Pacquiao-Algieri, for...
Second-lining: The WBSS parades through New Orleans
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN, boxing’s now-essential network, the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series super lightweight tournament happened in New Orleans. ...
The Saturday mashup
By Bart Barry-
Three broadcasts Saturday, and nothing that happened was quite great and some was very good but everything was at least good, and...
Orthodox / southpaw: Enjoying Crawford-Benavidez from different angles
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - “How many services must one rent monthly to watch a championship prizefight?” went my thoughts Saturday from an apartment...
Naoya Inoue and a pox on pandering henceforth
By Bart Barry-
Sunday morning on DAZN Japan’s Naoya “The Monster” Inoue performed the feats of scoring his second knockout as a bantamweight and completing...
Callum Smith: Whupping George Groves, giving the Yanks a helpful juxtaposition
By Bart Barry-
Friday in an excellent conclusion to the World Boxing Super Series’ excellent first season, super middleweight edition, England’s Callum Smith stopped England’s...
Another splendid showing by AJ
Bart Barry-
Saturday world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua once again filled a gigantic football stadium and successfully defended his multitude of titles by knocking silly...
The greater man won
By Bart Barry-
“The war’s over. It’s over. I saw it on television. I saw it on TV.” - Conrad Brean, “Wag...
Late blood, no knockdowns: Porter decisions Garcia effortfully
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn welterweight “Showtime” Shawn Porter outworked Philadelphia’s Danny “Swift” Garcia for the WBC’s suddenly coveted iteration of a 147-pound...
Labor Day: Essay, email, list, query, interview, counterpoint, speech, About us,...
By Bart Barry-
There is ever much thought given to layers and how they might best be created in a thing linear as the written...
A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Dogboe
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Gila River Arena in the greater Phoenix area Ghanaian super bantamweight titlist Isaac Dogboe raced through Japan’s Hidenori Otake in...
Column without end, part 17
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 16, please click here.
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QUITO, Ecuador - No telling where this’ll head as its teetotaler writer’s synapses get tickled...
Krummy: Moving on from Krusher Kovalev to expressions of euphoria
By Bart Barry-
Sundays like these you spend wondering if this will be it, the last Sunday, the one when the words or at least...
Mikey Garcia goes linear
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles in a match that unified lightweight titles without undisputing them Mikey Garcia outboxed Robert Easter and decisioned him...
Turkish delight: Usyk unmans Gassiev on Tivibu Spor
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk became the first unified cruiserweight champion of the world since Evander Holyfield, pitching a 12-round...
Arguably the greatest ESPN+ fight in history
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on the ESPN+ app Filipino Manny Pacquiao smelted Argentine welterweight titlist Lucas Matthysse in Malaysia. Saturday on no app whatever...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer, parts...
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: A year ago, bereft of ideas for his weekly column, Bart Barry interviewed himself again about the state of the...
Saucedo-Zappavigna: A sacrificial sheep made into a ram
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN in Oklahoma City junior welterweight Alex “El Cholo” Saucedo made an adopted-homecoming match against Australian Leonardo "Lenny Z" Zappavigna...
Pride in great male writing about men
By Bart Barry-
This is not a trigger warning but a preamble. What follows is a consideration of fantastic writing about men, the sort...
