Bart Barry
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Humiliation is more frightening than pain
By Bart Barry
Friday’s super middleweight fight was awful. Saturday’s welterweight fight should be excellent. Saturday’s heavyweight farce wasn’t bad at all. There’s no laying out with T-square and drafting board a column that treats…
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Teofimo Lopez takes over
By Bart Barry
Saturday in The Bubble in the long-anticipated mainevent of a long ESPN card Brooklyn’s Teofimo Lopez conclusively decisioned Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko to become The Ring’s lightweight champion. The fight went nearly opposite…
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WBSS: At long last, something true
By Bart Barry
Saturday in Scotland the World Boxing Super Series held the final semifinals matches in its bantamweight and super lightweight divisions, and they went even better than hoped. Hometown southpaw Josh ?Tartan Tornado?…
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Lomachenko and Crolla are not El Paso club pros, and it?s too bad
By Bart Barry
Saturday in Los Angeles once-defeated Ukrainian lightweight titlist Vasyl ?Hi-Tech? Lomachenko will successfully defend his title against Britain?s Anthony Crolla on ESPN+ in a match that challenges prefight scriptwriters to excavate some…
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The Truth will set you expensive: Spence edges Crawford at Purses Collide
By Bart Barry
?It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books ? setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five…
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Preview of Spence-Garcia, part 1 (of one)
By Bart Barry
Soon undefeated welterweight Texan titlist Errol Spence will defend his IBF belt against undefeated lightweight Californian titlist Mikey Garcia at AT&T (formerly Cowboys) Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on a PBC pay-per-view card…
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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 named Carlos Ocampo at ? let?s get this right ?…
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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, the Aussie who upset Manny Pacquiao in 2017. Crawford is everything.…
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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 deserves much credit for enabling. It was the second installment…
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Gilberto Ramirez looks beautiful in South Texas showcase on ESPN
By Bart Barry
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 Zurdo? Gilberto Ramirez (37-0, 25 KOs), and it…
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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 a fight enabled by HBO. If it wasn?t dreary neither…
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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 of Cincinnati whose crowd leavened Broner?s acts with applause enough…
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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 Mexican cinnamonweight champion Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez will trade hands with Mexican…
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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 handlers and hangerson ? did not reflect in their own…
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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 birthday, on HBO, by rendering Hopkins unfit to continue their…
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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 up with Florida?s Keith ?One Time? Thurman in a match…
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Errol Spence: A good fighter with much potential
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Barclay?s Center in a PBC match televised by NBC, Texas welterweight southpaw Errol Spence stitchripped New York?s Chris Algieri. Spence won every round en route to a TKO in the…
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Goodbye till the next time, Manny
By Bart Barry
Saturday at MGM Grand in the first retirement match of his career and second rematch with California?s Timothy Bradley, Filipino welterweight Manny Pacquiao decisioned roundly Bradley by three fair scores of 116-110,…
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Kovalev krushes Koach Freddie, et al
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Montreal?s Bell Centre, Russian light heavyweight champion Sergey ?Krusher? Kovalev beat Haitian-Canadian Jean Pascal till Pascal?s corner told its charge to remain seated at the end of round 7. While…
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Chasing heavyweights
By Bart Barry
Among the very few benefits of the PBC?s 2015 emergence is this: We now know clarity in prizefighting?s flagship division ? heavyweight, according to legend ? assures the longterm health of our…