Bart Barry
132 articles · 15rounds.com
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Pacquiao the convert, Bradley the shameless
By Bart Barry
Manny Pacquiao can be beaten, but this is not news because any man who ties gloves on his fists and makes combat with large and good enough men will be beaten eventually.…
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Above a Texas bullring, a reminder about Floyd Mayweather
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO ? Suspended above a bullring on a wire-mesh floor below a cinema-size screen, one story and 50 yards from where Cowboys Dancehall?s dancers danced, 75 or so aficionados gathered to…
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El Terrible, finalmente
By Bart Barry
I started to write about boxing because of Erik ?El Terrible? Morales, whose face, along with those of Israel Vazquez and Juan Manuel Marquez, is the first my mind associates with the…
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Portrait of a credential to 2011?s biggest fight, Part 2
By Bart Barry
The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas gazed upon its empty MGM Grand Garden Arena for most of the undercard matches because…
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Portrait of a credential to 2011?s biggest fight, Part 1
By Bart Barry
The day Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez fought their rubber match in November 2011, Las Vegas was in recovery. The city tried to pull itself from the depressed conditions every cabbie…
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?20-1 odds are too much?
By Bart Barry
The quote above belongs to HBO analyst Roy Jones, who said those words Saturday in a context far different from how they deserve to be remembered. Jones was selling the HBO audience,…
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And when Mayweather and Pacquiao never do fight?
By Bart Barry
We are where we were 20 months ago. Floyd Mayweather knows he can beat Many Pacquiao, doesn?t understand why the rest of us don?t, and wants every detail just so before he?ll…
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Fretting already about Pacquiao-Marquez III
By Bart Barry
A friend visited me from Mexico last week. Between trips to Austin and strolls along the San Antonio River, we had occasion to watch a number of old Marco Antonio Barrera fights…
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Unfit for prime time
By Bart Barry
There is a time of the year in professional golf when the four tournaments collectively known as ?the majors? are finished, the Ryder Cup, in even years, is through, and made-for-television and…
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Agbeko-Mares and the pursuit of authenticity
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO ? Saturday night as the HBO fights were getting under way, an enormous event happened here in the downtown area. Fiesta Flambeau, the annual commencement of this city?s 11-day Battle…
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A Terrible difference
By Bart Barry
A suspicion was confirmed Saturday. No, it wasn?t the suspicion we all harbored about Erik ?El Terrible? Morales? shopworn frailty. Morales? comportment in the main event of ?Action Heroes? was first rate.…
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Solis remembers while Top Rank corners
By Bart Barry
It was almost four years ago this week that Mexican Jorge Solis sat in Pico de Gallo restaurant, sipping menudo. Pico de Gallo is a colorful cousin eatery to San Antonio?s famous…
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Few suspicions linger about Donaire, one suspects
By Bart Barry
Some boxing aficionados were suspicious of Nonito Donaire?s talents during the promotion of the young Filipino?s fight with Mexico?s WBC/WBO bantamweight champion Fernando Montiel. Most of these aficionados? wrongheaded ways were righted…
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No cupidity on Valentine?s Day
By Bart Barry
This will be about Marco Antonio Barrera?s continuing journey through prizefighting, inspired by its form. If you?re no longer interested in Barrera, this column is not for you. That cleared the room?…
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Los Angeles in April rather than Las Vegas in May
By Bart Barry
In March we journeyed to Arlington, Tex., to see Cowboys Stadium?s first prizefight, one featuring Manny Pacquiao. In November we returned to Arlington, Tex., to see Cowboys Stadium?s second prizefight, one featuring…
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A mosaicked revisit to last year?s most interesting fight ? Parts 1 & 2
By Bart Barry
Authors Note ? In previous years, I?ve broken these treatments into two parts because we needed original content. Kyle Kinder and Anson Wainwright now give us all that and more on weekdays.…
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A Cobra, a Son of God, and some Dynamite
By Bart Barry
As Nottinghamshire?s Carl ?The Cobra? Froch made his ringwalk, Saturday, Showtime commentator Steve Farhood recounted Froch?s run of super middleweight opponents since 2008 ? Jean Pascal, Jermain Taylor, Andre Dirrell, Mikkel Kessler,…
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Good riddance to Margarito, so long to Pacquiao
By Bart Barry
ARLINGTON, Tex. ? There was a time when Antonio Margarito was my favorite story in boxing. He was humble, friendly, kind to fans and writers, and willing to absorb copious abuse to…
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Mexicans? support of Margarito never quit either
By Bart Barry
ARLINGTON, Tex. ? In January of 2009, Mexican Antonio Margarito was caught with a plaster-like substance smeared on the knuckle pads of his hand wraps before a defense of his welterweight title.…
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Apologies everywhere at Pacquiao-Margarito undercard press conference
By Bart Barry
GRAPEVINE, Tex. ? Antonio Margarito is sorry. Brandon Rios is sorry. Robert Garcia is sorry. And all three would now like to move on. Thursday in a convention room of the expansive…