Bart Barry
What the hell just happened in Oklahoma?
By Bart Barry-
Friday at Buffalo Run Casino in Miami, Okla., in a match televised by ShoBox between Russian-Oklahoman super lightweight Ivan “The Beast” Baranchyk...
Mastery vs. flow, and a little Mikey Garcia too
By Bart Barry-
For a decade now when you ask a contemporary prizefighter or even just a kid in the gym eight years from turning...
Life is brutal but beautiful: R.A. the Rugged Man’s performance compulsion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - Saturday at a livemusic venue called Fitzgerald’s sometime round midnight underground hip-hop artist R.A. the Rugged Man (R.A. Thorburn)...
Son of the Legend to be Cinnamoned: Alvarez-Chavez is on
By Bart Barry-
Friday brought what announcement boxing craves - a superfight! And here it is: May 6 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas...
Killing pay-per-view: An (unauthorized) oral history
By Bart Barry-
Twenty months after a fight that put boxing pay-per-view in a death spiral, Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao - along with their...
The Fight Game in 2017 redux
By Bart Barry-
Apropos of an article about Western languages’ overuse of nouns when compared to Eastern languages’ preference for verbs I dove in the...
2016: Bidding an unpersuasive adieu
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a perfect park not far from the downtown area here, in fact it may well be considered the...
Not-missing Bernard Hopkins already
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a 1/3-full Forum in Inglewood, Calif., handpicked American light heavyweight opponent Joe Smith retired Bernard Hopkins just before Hopkins’ 52nd...
Victory laps and laps: Crawford closes questionful Molina
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Omaha junior welterweight Nebraskan Terence “Bud” Crawford (29-0) spiralsnuffed Californian John Molina (29-6) in the eighth round of their match...
An honest prizefight: Gassiev decisions Lebedev in Moscow
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Moscow Russian cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev lost his title by split decision to Russian Murat Gassiev by scores that were...
Oopsie doopsie
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Las Vegas the runnerup for 2016’s most-anticipated fight featured undefeated Jamaican Nicholas “Axe Man” Walters getting stripped bare in a...
A triumph of sorts: Ward decisions Kovalev barely or not at...
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas undefeated American light heavyweight Andre “SOG” Ward decisioned unanimously and narrowly undefeated Russian Sergey “Krusher”...
Ward, Kovalev and the enchanting unknown
By Bart Barry--
Here’s what’s going to happen Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on HBO pay-per-view: American Andre “SOG” Ward will fight Russian...
Playing out the Pacquiao hand
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on UNLV’s campus or thereabouts Filipino senator Manny Pacquiao unanimously decisioned American welterweight titlist Jessie Vargas in a good match that...
Manny Pacquiao: Overstaying the welcome
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Filipino former world champion and current senator Manny Pacquiao matches himself with American...
Chocolatito City, part 5
By Bart Barry-
In Tokyo on Sept. 5, 2014, Roman Gonzalez became the second Nicaraguan prizefighter to become a three-division world champion, putting him deservedly...
Chocolatito City, part 4
BY Bart Barry-
Roman Gonzalez made the sixth and final defense of his light flyweight title on Nov. 17, 2012, at Los Angeles’ Sports Arena...
Chocolatito City, part 3
By Bart Barry-
Round the time of Roman Gonzalez’s 28th prizefight - a March 19, 2011 decision defense of his second world title in a...
Chocolatito City, part 2
By Bart Barry-
On Sept. 15, 2008, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez defeated Japanese minimumweight world champion Yutaka Niida in Kanagawa, Japan, bringing Gonzalez’s first world title...
Chocolatito City, part 1
By Bart Barry-
As 2016 approaches its final quarter still enjoying a fine chance at being remembered like the worst year for boxing in the...
Bull***** at AT&T Stadium
By Bart Barry-
NOT ARLINGTON, TEXAS - Saturday Mexican junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez toed the line against former Commonwealth super welterweight titlist, former BBBofC...
Chocolatito: The last compelling reason to watch our sport
By Bart Barry-
Saturday afternoon HBO broadcast the latest episode in its ungainly series of Gennady “GGG” Golovkin feature films against hopeless welterweight Kell “Special...
Remember the Munaitpasov: GolovKanelo promises an unforgettable May
By Bart Barry--
SAN ANTONIO - This city is named after a river.
Too, it’s nicknamed after a mission where a battle happened and Davy Crockett...
An interview with the boxing writer by the boxing writer
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: To commemorate his 543rd Monday column for 15rounds.com, we asked Bart Barry to interview Bart Barry about the current state...
Outline for a poem called “Olympic Boxing the Din Overwhelms
By Bart Barry
To hike South Texas in the summertime one must rise unconscionably early on a Saturday morning and be at the nearest state...
Liner notes from the song “A Confrontation with Larger Mammals at...
By Bart Barry-
My new friend Sammy and I became friends at a coffeehouse in the Pearl Brewery complex because of our socks or fate....
An end to Andre Ward press releases
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Oakland light heavyweight Andre Ward decisioned a Colombian named Alexander Brand on HBO by scores predictable as they were lopsided....
Enormous gloves: Frampton decisions Santa Cruz
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn a fight for the WBA’s “Super World” featherweight title saw Northern Ireland super bantamweight Carl “The Jackal” Frampton decision...
Terence Crawford may be special, but that sure wasn’t
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at a half-full MGM Grand Garden Arena undefeated American junior welterweight Terence “Bud” Crawford dully decisioned Ukrainian Viktor “The Iceman” Postol...
Deontay “1.7x” Wilder
By Bart Barry-
Saturday at the Bartow Arena in Birmingham the reigning Alabama and PBC heavyweight champion Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder discouraged California’s Chris Arreola...
Who the hell is Isaac Chilemba and why’s he on HBO...
By Bart Barry-
Sometime soon - or conceivably as you read this - light heavyweight champion Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev will beat up a South African...
Things to do on Independence Day weekend instead of writing a...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO - There’s a coffeehouse and bar concept called Halcyon in the south-downtown part of this city called Southtown and what...
Good if not quite timeless: One Time decisions Showtime
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn, Florida welterweight Keith “One Time” Thurman hit Ohio’s “Showtime” Shawn Porter many many times and all over though not...
Thurman-Porter: Trying for enthusiasm
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in Brooklyn in what remains of an anticipated title match for an expiring sport Ohio welterweight “Showtime” Shawn Porter will square...
Interview with San Fernando Gymnasium
By Bart Barry
Originally conducted for the San Antonio Historic Preservation Society in 2012, this interview is reprinted with the gymnasium’s permission.
BB: I sure appreciate...
