Bart Barry
Trying to give N’Dam about Ryota Murata
By Bart Barry-
Early Sunday morning on ESPN2 a fight for a middleweight title of some sort featured Japan’s Ryota Murata and Franco-Cameroonian Hassan N'Dam...
Column without end, part 15
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 14, please click here.
AUSTIN, Texas - We’ll get to the meat of this column quickly, but first a...
Mosaic of violent impulses: Enforcers, a dog and an armadillo
By Bart Barry-
Recently my Saturday hike saw a canine companion turn instantly from goldenfleeced cutie to predatory lightning bolt. Still more recently Netflix...
Column without end, part 14
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: For part 13, please click here.
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CUSCO, Peru - The morning air is crisp here in the Andes, 11,000-foot-altitude crisp, and...
Year of great retirements
By Bart Barry-
Thursday afternoon Andre Ward announced the conclusion of his excellent career. The retirement feels legitimate because Ward feels legitimate, ungiven to...
Hagler-Hearns it wasn’t because Hagler and Hearns they ain’t
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas the adverb-adjective noun in the noun preposition adjective noun(s) happened when Kazakhstan’s middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin drew...
Chocolatito City razed
By Bart Barry-
SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Onto the mess of rainbows and the Beach Boys and vivacity of this city’s Pier, else the whole...
Key to Chocolatito City
By Bart Barry-
Nicaraguan super flyweight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez seeks to avenge his career’s first loss against Thailand’s Wisaksil “Srisaket Sor Rungvisai” Wangek in the...
Mayweather-McGregor: The uniquely fatiguing experience of being punched often
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas retired welterweight champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs), a 40-year-old American, beat mixed martial artist “The Notorious”...
Terence and Floyd: Juxtaposed by the calendar
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Lincoln the fighting pride of Nebraska, Terence “Bud” Crawford, unmanned and unbellied Namibian Julius Indongo on ESPN to become the...
High technology, low fidelity
by Bart Barry-
Saturday Ukrainian super featherweight titlist Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko defeated Colombian featherweight Miguel Marriaga after seven rounds when Marriaga’s corner decided not to...
No problem: Garcia decisions Broner
By Bart Barry--
Saturday in Brooklyn a junior welterweight special attraction broadcast by Showtime saw California’s Mikey Garcia decision Cincinnati's Adrien Broner by three fair...
Another interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Eleven months ago we asked Bart Barry to interview himself about the state of the craft. On Tuesday Bart...
The good on B.A.D., and the innovative
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Inglewood, Calif., Mexican Miguel “El Alacran” Berchelt defended his super featherweight title against former titlist Takashi Miura in a good...
Gnawing, helpless monotony: David “The Destroyer” Lopez (1977-2017)
By Bart Barry-
Thursday night Mexican middleweight contender David “The Destroyer” Lopez and his son were attacked in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, Lopez’s hometown, while driving...
Welcome new boxing fans from ESPN!
By Bart Barry-
Hi new boxing fans! We’re excited to have you!
By “new” of course I mean “smart” and “knowledgeable” and even “surprisingly...
ESPN party: Everyone back in the Pacquiao pool
By Bart Barry-
Saturday or Sunday somewhere in Australia, Manny Pacquiao will fight an Australian welterweight named Jeff “The Hornet” Horn in a match televised...
Andre Ward, a fighter, finishes Sergey Kovalev, the bogeyman
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Mandalay Bay, in a rematch barely anticipated for being unpromoted, American Andre Ward defended his light heavyweight championship by stopping...
Ward-Kovalev 2: Less interesting this time round
By Bart Barry-
Saturday brings a rematch of 2016’s most-anticipated match, Andre Ward versus Sergey Kovalev, in Las Vegas, on HBO pay-per-view, and it may...
The untrustworthy compass
By Bart Barry-
A large portion of my thoughts in the last few months has gone to the consequences of a psychological compass that does...
Errol Spence makes a proper job of it
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Sheffield undefeated Texas welterweight Errol Spence beat Sheffield’s own Kell Brook to a knee from which Brook did not rise...
Terence Crawford: The thrill is gone
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Madison Square Garden, Nebraska junior welterweight champion Terence Crawford beat Dominican Felix Diaz by corner stoppage after 10 rounds in...
Crawford & Russell vs. Chavez Jr.
By Bart Barry-
Saturday the world’s best junior welterweight, Nebraska’s Terence Crawford, will fight on HBO at Madison Square Garden against a 33-year-old Dominican named...
Canelo crushes infomercial but Junior retains chavezweight title
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas, in boxing’s must daring exploitation of Cinco De Mayo loyalties yet, Jalisco’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won every round,...
Anthony Joshua did it the right way
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Wembley Stadium in London, before a crowd of 90,000 or so, British heavyweight Anthony Joshua defeated by 11th-round technical knockout...
Two fun Saturdays
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at England’s Wembley Stadium British heavyweight Anthony Joshua will fight Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko. One week later at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile...
Joshua-Klitschko, Showtime-HBO: A touch of mediation
By Bart Barry
The biggest prizefight since Froch-Groves II, as measured by ticketsales (an idea at once novel and ancient), is nearly upon us, but...
Traction controlled: Lomachenko cruises to another victory
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Maryland, Ukrainian Vasyl “Hi-Tech” Lomachenko, super featherweight champion of HBO, beat New Jersey’s Jason Soto to a corner stoppage at...
Performing pre-performance pain: Chambers, Schwarzenegger, Vazquez, et al
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Saturday at this city’s fantastic Luna Music Bar & Lounge a talented blues singer from Houston named Annika Chambers,...
Struggling to 1,000 words by watching Golovkin-Jacobs with the volume off,...
By Bart Barry-
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SAN ANTONIO - So goes a Sunday afternoon at Brown...
A humbling
By Bart Barry-
Saturday the Chocolatito Era concluded when Nicaraguan Roman Gonzalez got narrowly and perhaps unfairly split-decisioned by Thailand’s Wisaksil “Srisaket Sor Rungvisai” Wangek...
Chocolatito debuts against Thailand’s debut conqueror
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of HBO’s pay-per-view match for the unified middleweight championship of the world, the world’s...
Keith Thurman: Captain of the junior varsity
By Bart Barry
Saturday welterweight Keith “One Time” Thurman majority-decisioned Danny “Swift” Garcia to become the undefeated, undisputed, unified champion of the PBC. The...
Bronze bombing heavyweight titles, undefeated records and knockout percentages by Bart...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala., Alabamian Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder dropped California’s Gerald Washington in round 5 then went nuts...
Say what you will about Broner, but . . .
By Bart Barry
Saturday on Twitter @ShowtimeBoxing American bronerweight silver titlist Adrien Broner decisioned Adrian Granados by majority scores at Cintas Center in Broner’s hometown...
