Bart Barry
The Truth is . . .
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Almost exactly 300 miles north of here Saturday welterweight titlist Errol “The Truth” Spencer strolled through an overmatched Mexican...
Terence Crawford is wonderful
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ Nebraska’s Terence Crawford won his first welterweight title the right way. He beat to relenting titlist Jeff Horn,...
Things to do this Saturday
By Bart Barry-
Three fights happen across nine timezones Saturday in a crescendo of sorts before boxing’s summer ritual ends much of our fun. Going...
Mashing it up with my new app
By Bart Barry-
I was up before dawn Friday morning to begin the day for 20 minutes before I remembered I was up to watch...
Who I was cheering for, and why?
By Bart Barry-
One doesn’t know when the urge to experimentalism will strike but one learns indulge it until he learns not to (many efforts...
Vasyl Lomachenko: A one-punch indictment, a 10-punch justification
By Bart Barry-
Ukrainian prizefighter Vasyl Lomachenko and his promoter Top Rank accomplished something pretty extraordinary Saturday when Lomachenko stopped lightweight champion Jorge Linares with...
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Bart Barry-
A genuine pursuit of greatness is not exasperating. It may be breathtaking or ridiculous or sobering or exhilarating, but it may not...
An infomercial for an infomercial for a . . .
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on an HBO telecast from Brooklyn middleweight mandatory challenger Danny “Miracle Man” Jacobs dropped and decisioned Polish junior middleweight Maciej “Certainly...
Adrien “About Thousands” Broner, but still about 13 of them
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center overweight Ohio junior welterweight Adrien “About Billions” Broner lost a majority draw to Jessie “The Pride of Las...
Sunday breakfast with Ryota “HHH” Murata
By Bart Barry-
ESPN2 broadcast a middleweight title fight between Japan’s Ryota Murata and Italy’s Emanuel Blandamura at 0800 ET on Sunday morning. Right...
Column without end, part 16
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 15, please click here.
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STOW, Mass. - This town has doubled in density since I grew up here. ...
Thread count 0: Joshua, Parker, Burr
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - This city shouldn’t’ve had to factor in this column. With a soldout heavyweight title fight in a Welsh...
There is no passion in continuity
By Bart Barry-
Saturday British heavyweight Dillian Whyte defended his WBC silver title by twizzlehammering an aged and limited Australian toughman named Lucas Browne in...
Back in Canelolandia, meating every plate
By Bart Barry-
TLAQUEPAQUE, Mexico - Thirty kilometers northnortheast of San Agustín de Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, and the meat here is delicious. It may...
Mikey Garcia makes “history” in Alamo City
By Bart Barry-
NOT SAN ANTONIO - Saturday in Freeman Coliseum junior welterweight Mikey Garcia decisioned Sergey Lipinets unanimously to attain a title in Garcia’s...
Deontay Wilder’s unconditional celebration of exceptional conditioning
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn undefeated American heavyweight titlist Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder windmilled to unconsciousness in round 10 undefeated...
To the edge of panic: Sor Rungvisai decisions Estrada
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Los Angeles, Thai super flyweight world champion Srisaket Sor Rungvisai majority-decisioned Mexican Juan Francisco Estrada in a fantastic prizefight HBO...
Wondering at David Benavidez’s talent, weeping for his future
By Bart Barry-
There were two very good title fights in the super middleweight division Saturday, but as the victor of the more widely watched...
Enchiladas, cryptocurrency and Frank Bascombe
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - An uncommon bout last week with a common cold and what distraction it brings, maybe this is what adults...
Comfortably contemplating devastation in South Texas
By Bart Barry-
PORT ARANSAS, Texas - Directly across Corpus Christi Bay from American Bank Center, a 30-mile circle and ferry ride by car, this...
Gilberto Ramirez looks beautiful in South Texas showcase on ESPN
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Saturday’s mainevent at American Bank Center was intended to be a coming-out party for undefeated Mexican super middleweight titlist “El...
Bad men in lieu of B.A.D. broadcasting
By Bart Barry-
Saturday undefeated Ukrainian cruiserweight Oleksandr Usyk (14-0, 11 KOs) decisioned undefeated Latvian Mairis Briedis (23-1, 18 KOs) in the penultimate round of...
Predation, mercy, mercenariness: Spence melts Peterson in Brooklyn
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Barclays Center welterweight titlist Errol Spence unmanned former junior welterweight titlist Lamont Peterson in a very good fight that was...
How to be cool as Sergio
By Bart Barry-
We begin with a definition of cool, or don’t, because it’s something sensed, though generational difference might alter such sensations, and we...
In lieu of a preview: Revisiting Israel Vazquez vs. Jhonny Gonzalez
By Bart Barry-
It’s the new year. Time for a preview.
Nope.
Some laziness and more wisdom say a preview of what’s to come in this...
Mosaic of 2017’s most ambivalent fight, part 2
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 1, please click here.
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What a younger Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez might’ve done with a smaller version of Wisaksil...
Mosaic of 2017’s most ambivalent fight, part 1
By Bart Barry-
We were in Carson, Calif., to celebrate Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez for the joy he brought us through a spectacular career predictably obscured...
Horsing around in Jalisco, watching David Lemieux
By Bart Barry-
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - This city is 4,500 kilometers southwest of Laval, Quebec. That’s sensible a place as any to start a...
A euphoric redefining of the classic fistic catharsis wrought by ....
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN Ukrainian super featherweight champion Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko made undefeated Cuban super bantamweight champion Guillermo “The Jackal” Rigondeaux quit after...
Goodbye to Miguel Cotto: A well-publicized and honestly blank canvas
By Bart Barry-
Saturday HBO said goodbye to Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto who lost a close but fair decision to New York’s Sadam...
Krushing it: Kovalev stuffs us with memories of a better Thanksgiving...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday Russian light heavyweight Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev laid waste to an otherwise-anonymous Ukrainian named Vyacheslav “Two YYs” Shabranskyy in the sort of...
Thanksgiving meanderings and musings
By Bart Barry-
Contrary to accepted architectural practices, this part of this column generally gets written last. You’re supposed to tell them what you’re...
Curing insomnia with the Miracle Man
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Nassau Coliseum, former home of the New York Islanders, Brooklyn “Miracle Man” Daniel Jacobs decisioned someone named Luis Arias on...
Brief, eyewitness accounts from the career of Jesus Soto Karass
By Bart Barry-
Late Thursday night on one of ESPN’s innumerable affiliates Dominican journeyman Juan Carlos Abregu beat up Mexican journeyman Jesus Soto Karass. ...
Joshua-Takam-Edwards: A professional showing all round
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in an enormous Welsh rugby stadium heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua beat Franco-Cameroonian Carlos Takam by a round-10 referee stoppage whose...
