Bart Barry
In real time: Wilder bludgeons Duhaupas
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Saturday in Birmingham, Alabamian heavyweight Deontay Wilder brought la ruine to Frenchman Johann Duhaupas, stopping him in round 11. What follows is...
Column without end, part 12
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Editor’s note: For part 11, please click here.
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“Paradoxically, it is in the core administrative and entertainment districts of European cities, be it...
Good riddance, Floyd
By Bart Barry
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, American Floyd Mayweather decisioned American Andre Berto in a historically awful match Mayweather promised will be...
Mayweather-Berto: Nobody cares
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Just in time for Mexican Independence Day weekend comes a showdown to warm cada corazon mexicano: Floyd Mayweather, an American from Michigan,...
Violent middlings: Santa Cruz decisions Mares
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Saturday on ESPN in a PBC main event that happened at Staples Center, Leo Santa Cruz decisioned Abner Mares. The fight was...
Column without end, part 11
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Editor’s note: For part 10, please click here.
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BOGOTA, Colombia - This Andean city hasn’t Medellin’s organization or courtesy but a more amiable...
Column without end, part 10
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Editor’s note: For part nine, please click here.
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These columns are written to spiral outwards from their centers organically as possible, structures from...
Brooklyn’s magic castle awash in swift tides or so Rosie said
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Saturday in Brooklyn, Philadelphia welterweight Danny “Swift” Garcia laid waste to the remnants of Brooklyn’s Paulie “Magic Man” Malignaggi in a PBC...
The disappointment of BJ Flores
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“Potential remains potent if unused.” - James Wood, “Late Bloom”
Saturday in a small theater at Palms Casino in Las Vegas, in a...
Greatness willed: A farewell to Carl Froch
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Last week British super middleweight Carl “The Cobra” Froch announced his retirement, ending an unusually fine contemporary prizefighting career on an unusually...
Luis Collazo: PBC Employee of the Month
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Saturday at a local coffee shop I watched the PBC main event I’d already covered five days before it happened (I was...
Bad, yes, but probably not bad enough: Thurman stops Collazo in...
By Bart Barry
TAMPA, Fla. - Saturday in University of South Florida’s acclaimed Sundome, Florida welterweight Keith “One Time” Thurman stopped Brooklyn’s Luis Collazo in...
Delayed meritocracy: Kings of the Mic and Timothy Bradley
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DALLAS - Four miles southeast of this city’s downtown center stands Gexa Energy Pavilion, a 20,000-seat outdoor amphitheater whose stage Friday hosted...
The talented, the untalented, and the Nipsey Hussle
By Bart Barry
Saturday on BET, American super middleweight world champion Andre Ward made his much-needed return to boxing, stopping in the ninth round a...
The Axe Man goeth
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Saturday in Madison Square Garden Theater, the very place Filipino Nonito Donaire’s candidacy for HBO Fighter of the New Century was subverted...
Remember the Cinnamon: Alvarez wrecks Cotto in Alamo City
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“It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages...
Column without end, part 9
By Bart Barry
Editor’s note: For part eight, please click here.
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CARLSBAD, NM - This town is an overpriced outpost on the border of two western...
Column without end, part 8
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Editor’s note: For part seven, please click here.
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San Antonio Museum of Art currently features a retrospective exhibition of works by American painter...
Dung beetles and Chocolatito: Small, extraordinary creatures
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SAN ANTONIO - While hiking Saturday morning I came across my first in-action dung beetle, a needly faced creature pushing a smooth...
Hit by the Cinnamon stick
By Bart Barry
HOUSTON - Minute Maid Park, home of the Astros, made a fine fight venue, even, or perhaps especially, when its retractable roof...
The prestidigitation
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, in the best fight of May 2015, so far, American Floyd “Money” Mayweather easily decisioned Filipino...
The big payout
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Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena, before a crowd likely to comprise not one person reading this column, American Floyd Mayweather finally...
Truth and Beauty: Crawford, Piano, Khan, Provodnikov and Matthysse
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FORT WORTH, Texas - This is not the city where Terence Crawford fought Saturday. But it is part of an enormous thing...
Everyone’s ‘Bud’: Crawford obliterates Dulorme
ARLINGTON, Texas - It is said a fighter becomes 20-percent better upon winning a world title. Undefeated junior welterweight champion Terence “Bud” Crawford...
Without Premier: Bud, Rocky and Machine
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Saturday brings a cleansing of the palate, doesn’t it, a reminder of a painfully missed time when you watched boxing because you...
Gabe Oppenheim, and one of the last good books about boxing
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“If you’re gonna write about boxing, you need facts and grittiness and maybe even some awkward bad writing. It can’t be perfect....
Gary Russell Jr, and the end of cable sports journalism
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Saturday, Showtime’s preternaturally gifted Gary Russell Jr., an Al Haymon fighter, knocked-out the hardest puncher in Mexican history, Jhonny Gonzalez, on Showtime,...
Column without end, part 7
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Editor’s note: For part 6, please click here.
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BURNET, Texas - We begin here, again, with a thought experiment of sorts, before hiking...
Of Soviets and athletes
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SAN ANTONIO - If you’re reading this column, it is highly probable you watched on HBO Russian Sergey “Krusher” Kovalev’s Saturday reduction...
Vargas ruins Tomlinson in eight
SAN ANTONIO - A sparse crowd gathered Thursday night at Freeman Coliseum, located beside the stadium in which the world champion Spurs play, and...
Premieres
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SAN ANTONIO - Tuesday at Aztec Theater, the oldest theater in this old city, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and James Kirkland announced their...
Column without end, part 6
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But how will this influence resolve itself?
Three of the most influential artists of the 20th...
Mayweather-Pacquiao: It’s OK to be happy
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The announcement came sometime Thursday, or maybe Tuesday, the announcement there would be an announcement coming soon from a professional athlete about...
Column without end, part 5
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Editor’s note: For part 4, please click here.
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It is a question of competence much as intent.
That is where boxing now stumbles in...
Column without end, part 4
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Editor’s note: For part 3, please click here.
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Another week comes to pass in the decisive erosion of public interest in our sport....
