Norm Frauenheim
Navarrete back, facing a reborn future and double-edged decision
By Norm Frauenheim
Reborn Emanuel Navarrete fought his way back from the edge of retirement and now looks at a restored future that starts with...
Moving On Up: Benavidez weighing in on his many options
By Norm Fraueneim
David Benavidez, once branded as a weight bully, now looks up-and-down the scale and sees only options.
Bullies are sometimes hostages, too, trapped...
Navarrete busts up Nunez, wins unified title
By Norm Frauenheim
GLENDALE, Ariz. --The blood poured into a right eye. A swelling bruise began to close the left eye. Only the end was...
Navarrete-Nunez: A passport to Mexican fame
By Norm Frauenheim
GLENDALE, Ariz. – For a while, the only thing separating Emanuel Navarrete and Eduardo Nunez was a valid passport. Now, even that’s...
Navarrete’s AZ arrival for Nunez fight delayed by lost passport
By Norm Frauenheim
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Emanuel Navarrete missed a news conference Thursday for a fight for a unified junior-lightweight title Saturday against emerging fellow-Mexican Eduardo...
Mayday: Benavidez fighting to put his name alongside Cinco de Mayo...
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Belts and acronyms are at stake, but a date matters the most to David Benavidez’ in his upscale move...
Ryan Garcia scores dominant decision over Barrios
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS --For one night, there were no doubts about Ryan Garcia.
He eliminated them with a disciplined, thorough decision over Mario Barrios...
Garcia, Barrios make weight on a day when Mayweather makes plans
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – The weigh-in was staged on a day when nothing else was.
Ryan Garcia, known to miss weight, was a half-pound...
Ryan Garcia looks calm, promises storm in pursuit of Barrios’ title
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – Ryan Garcia came in from the storm.
He didn’t exactly leave it behind. He never does. But on a rare...
Who’s Fooling Who? Garcia and Barrios fighting for an answer
By Norm Frauenheim
From outrage to silly, Ryan Garcia’s many sides have shown up on either side of the ropes and lots of other places.
There...
Boring To Brilliant: A New Year starts with Shakur Stevenson
By Norm Frauenheim
Shakur Stevenson’s sudden transformation from boring to brilliant isn’t exactly a surprise.
The potential, sometimes suffocated by bouts of immaturity, has always been...
Trash talk sets the stage for Lopez-Stevenson showdown
By Norm Frauenheim
Teofimo Lopez arrived looking more like a preacher than a prizefighter. He wore a half-coat and reading glasses, carefully balanced at the...
Ringmaster: Ryan Garcia back on stage
By Norm Frauenheim
The props and plots were all there. So was Ryan Garcia.
Garcia, ever the showman, delivered Thursday with a gag bag full of...
Taking Flight: David Benavidez back in PHX and ready to jump...
By Norm Frauenheim -
David Benavidez wore a polished symbol of the Phoenix logo around his neck a few days ago in a long-awaited...
Talking Points: Bam-Inoue becomes one
By Norm Frauenheim
Marinate, a promotional euphemism for momentum, is either another tiring tease, or an early way to test public interest, or a little...
New Year: Looking back and ahead
By Norm Frauenheim
A year ends and another begins, leaving memories, controversies, brilliance, buffoonery, outrage, the usual suspects and lessons never heeded.
Ignore the lessons, and...
Pound-for-Pound: There’s a vacancy at the top
By Norm Frauenheim
A consensus pound-for-pound champion is as temporary as it is rare, and -- sure enough -- Terence Crawford’s retirement this month reignites...
Terence Crawford: “History is never retired”
By Norm Frauenheim
Terence Crawford’s retirement is being called a surprise. Even a shock. But is it? Really? Or is it just consistent, another thread...
Alternate Path: WBC creates one for Canelo
By Norm Frauenheim
The echoes from last week’s noisy Terence Crawford-World Boxing Council feud include lots of talk about what’s next for an always contentious...
WBC strips belt, Crawford counters
By Norm Frauenheim
Boxing, unruly and unrepentant, is erupting all over again with Terence Crawford’s shotgun-like blast of insults in a social-media counter to the...
David Benavidez wants to put his face on a vacant day
By Norm Frauenheim
David Benavidez, who made more news after the Anthony Yarde fight than he did during it, is seizing the day.
Canelo’s day.
In a...
Quiet Man: Bam Rodriguez, a dad with more to fight for
By Norm Frauenheim
Jesse Rodriguez stands out for what he doesn’t do in a business otherwise full of gasbags and so-called influencers who pontificate more...
Face of new generation is starting to look like David Benavidez
By Norm Frauenheim
Boxing gets a head start on a New Year next Saturday with a card in Riyadh loaded with potential to set the...
Victor Conte’s influence impossible to ignore
By Norm Frauenheim
From the batter’s box to the finish line to the ring, there’s been a lot of good, bad and ugly over the...
Pacquiao-Mayweather 2 won’t rewrite history
By Norm Frauenheim
Only boxing is killing boxing. It’s an old line, yet
relevant as ever this week with news of talk about a Floyd Mayweather-Manny...
Boxing Politics: Endorsement but no enforcement
By Norm Frauenheim
Boxing regulation, like colossal shrimp, is often a classic oxymoron, two words aligned yet always in conflict. After all, boxing is at...
Coming back? Fury always is
By Norm Frauenheim
Just when it looked as if boxing was facing only questions about shifting politics amid uncertainty over whether familiar faces are moving...
Beyond Canelo: David Benavidez going up scale for good
By Norm Frauenheim
David Benavidez, who is moving up the scale in weight and prominence, didn’t surprise anybody this week when he said he would...
Canelo set for elbow surgery that also might repair his chances...
By Norm Frauenheim
Unintended consequences, or at least attention and speculation, have been there for Terence Crawford and Canelo Alvarez in the wake of their...
Omaha gives Crawford a key to the city, then holds him...
By Norm Frauenheim
Terence Crawford’s celebration of a career-long fight for respect took a crazy turn when Omaha honored him with a parade Saturday and...
Legacy or Encore: What’s next for Terence Crawford?
By Norm Frauenheim
A performance that reminds us why boxing was once called The Sweet Science screams for an encore.
In the days after Terence Crawford...
Crawford makes history, takes down Canelo for third undisputed title
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – There was no blood. There were no knockdowns. There was only Terence Crawford.
Crawford’s dance, as brilliant as it...
Canelo-Crawford: Huge crowd turns ceremonial weigh-in into a celebration
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – It was called ceremonial. But a huge, roaring crowd called for it to be known as something else.
Something more.
Much...
Canelo-Crawford: Lots of talk, but roles stay the same
By Norm Frauenheim
LAS VEGAS – First, there was Terence Crawford, dressed in a white top and a friendly smile.
Then, there was Canelo Alvarez, his...
Forgotten Fight: Inoue-Akhmadaliev fighting to be heard
By Norm Frauenheim
It’s in Japan. But it might as well be on Jupiter. It’s the forgotten fight, shoved off stage and out-of-mind by attention...
