Bart Barry
132 articles · 15rounds.com
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Teasing the strippers: Canelo becomes lineal middleweight champion of the world
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Mandalay Bay, Mexican junior middleweight Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez widely decisioned Puerto Rican junior middleweight Miguel Cotto to become the lineal middleweight champion of the world. If there were any surprises…
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Hershman, Bradley and Rios: Finally an honest prizefight
By Bart Barry
Saturday at UNLV?s Thomas & Mack Center, American welterweights Timothy Bradley and Brandon Rios will compete for a world title of some sort and, more importantly, for a chance to be their…
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Mayweather-Berto: Nobody cares
By Bart Barry
Just in time for Mexican Independence Day weekend comes a showdown to warm cada corazon mexicano: Floyd Mayweather, an American from Michigan, versus Andre Berto, an American from Florida who fought for…
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Mayweather-Pacquiao: It?s OK to be happy
By Bart Barry
The announcement came sometime Thursday, or maybe Tuesday, the announcement there would be an announcement coming soon from a professional athlete about a future sporting event. It was a reminder how unserious…
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Kovalev-Hopkins: The fight of 2014
By Bart Barry
The most unexpected thing shared by guys who hit hardest is rarely how hard they hit or the speed of their attack. No, what surprises most about those guys is the nimbleness…
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The Axe Man cometh
By Bart Barry
Saturday at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., in a co-main event broadcast by HBO and certain to be more entertaining than what follows it, Jamaican featherweight titlist Nicholas ?The Axe Man? Walters…
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Travel box and away
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO ? Saturday night I attended ?Jazz?SAlive,? a two-day, free-admission jazz festival in the newly restored Travis Park, which abuts St. Mark?s, the gothic-revival Episcopal church where Lyndon Baines Johnson married…
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Mayweather-Maidana 2: Circus of the sagging big top
By Bart Barry
Saturday at MGM Grand, over which a 20-story Manny Pacquiao banner likely will not drape, American welterweight Floyd ?Money? Mayweather will make a rematch with Argentine Marcos ?El Chino? Maidana as part…
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Time is becoming Golovkin?s biggest fight
By Bart Barry
Gennady Golovkin has one title he?d like to keep for as long as possible and another one he?d prefer to shed as soon as he can. Time makes the second of the…
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Saul Alvarez: The cinnamon reckoning of an American promoter and a Cuban boxer
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Las Vegas? MGM Grand, home of Floyd Mayweather?s entranceway shrine, Mexican Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez will make a pay-per-view match with Cuban Erislandy ?The American Dream? Lara to determine who will…
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In celebration of 0s that went b
By Bart Barry
?Looks like in the next year or two, he is going to be a threat for any featherweight champion.? The quote above belongs to the late Emanuel Steward, an utterance he made…
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Juan Manuel Marquez: The definition of a prizefighter
By Bart Barry
Saturday at the newly reopened Forum in Inglewood, Calif., Mexican ?Dinamita? Juan Manuel Marquez and Colorado?s ?Mile High? Mike Alvarado engaged in a fight entertaining as any that ends with one guy…
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Bernard Hopkins? alien charm
By Bart Barry
What if Michael Jordan came back tomorrow, at age 51, and won an NBA championship with, say, the Washington Wizards for whom he last played in 2003? It would be a massive…
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Pacquiao-Bradley 2: Settling scores
By Bart Barry
LAS VEGAS ? Having scored the first match between American Timothy Bradley and Filipino Manny Pacquiao the wrong way from ringside, I found myself situated in a spot from which scoring was…
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Return to the scene of a ?robbery?
By Bart Barry
Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, not Macao, undefeated American welterweight Timothy Bradley will make a rematch of his 2012 fight with Filipino Manny Pacquiao, one sure to provide…
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No easy money in Texas: Marcos Maidana solves Adrien Broner
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO ? After making weight at Market Plaza on Friday, Cincinnati?s Adrien ?The Problem? Broner declared his fight with Argentine welterweight Marcos ?El Chino? Maidana was ?easy money.? Then he promised,…
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Manny Pacquiao as Macau, in Macau
By Bart Barry
Saturday at Venetian Resort in Macau a passable imitation of Filipino welterweight Manny Pacquiao whacked about American Brandon Rios in a passable imitation of a Las Vegas superfight. Pacquiao won 11 rounds…
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Nonito Donaire as fighter
By Bart Barry
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas ? There is a gorgeousness to the seashore that is difficult to debase, and yet this town nearly does it, lining its bay and neighboring stretches with gray oil…
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Mikey Garcia impresses, Nonito Donaire inspires
By Bart Barry
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas ? Puerto Rican junior lightweight titleholder Rocky Martinez was brought to South Texas to provide a welcoming belt to Californian Mikey Garcia in his new weight class, as well…
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A new sort of pressure fighter
By Bart Barry
Saturday on the small stage at Madison Square Garden, before a crowd of 5,000 ? in a city of 8.3 million ? a throng one euphoric commentator described as both ?electric? and…