Bart Barry
132 articles · 15rounds.com
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Presenting the year’s biggest fight
If there’s anything to reincarnation, and if I straighten up real soon, I like to imagine I’ll come back as a Miguel Cotto fan. No, it’s not quite nirvana, but it’s a…
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Magnifico and Marvelous
A survey arrived in my inbox some time ago. It bore the look of a get-out-the-Pacquiao-vote initiative. It was respectfully worded, though, and so I replied. At the end it asked my…
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Destination: Beyond the tangibles in Mayweather-Marquez
Whatever else you've thought about Saturday's fight, you should start here, the best reason not to pick Juan Manuel Marquez to win: Floyd Mayweather Jr. picked him as an opponent. Take that…
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Mayweather in reality — return of boxing’s cliche maker
DALLAS -- It's Friday morning, and on my way to the nation's capital, I'm going to Van-Hoy HBO's upcoming Mayweather/Marquez 24/7 series. That is, by the time you read this, you'll have…
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Beaten by tweetin’
Do you know what day Miguel Cotto opened camp for his upcoming fight with Manny Pacquiao? How about what time Paul Williams usually heads to the gym on weekdays? Any idea what…
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Some Bull, some Kong and a lot of Thunder
Much as we admired Alexis Arguello, we considered Arturo Gatti a friend. That's how to characterize the reaction their recent deaths have garnered. Arguello was a master craftsman who did the gentlemanly…
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In New York City, a celebratory weekend indeed
NEW YORK -- It's easy to forget how green the rest of the country is. Sitting in Central Park on a Sunday morning, after 13 years of Sonora Desert, reminds you how…
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Boxing writing about Frauenheim, Cotto and Clottey
So there?s this dinner Friday night in New York City. If you?re a boxing fan, you might want to check out GoFightLive.TV?s webcast of the event. If you?re a boxing writer, you?ll…
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?And it just worked beautiful”
Today you wonder what Ricky Hatton thinks of Floyd Mayweather Sr. Is Hatton glad his trainer taught him those nifty hand-pad tricks? What does he opine of the new jab Mayweather gave…
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An ode to obscurity
Among the more misunderstood quotes from ?Hamlet? is this one: ?The lady doth protest too much, methinks.? The word ?protest? meant something more to Shakespeare. When Hamlet?s mother used ?protest? to critique…
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?Juan is not fragile?
HOUSTON ? After the post-fight press conference I followed Nacho Beristain into the underground corridor that would take him and the rest of Team Marquez to its van. Since there?s not a…
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Discomforting Marquez, Discomfiting Diaz
Too much cannot be said for making your opponent uncomfortable in a prizefight. Even at its most tranquil, boxing is a terribly stressful thing to do. This is why fighters train 150-200…
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Pacquiao’s win sparks uncertainty for De La Hoya, boxing
Afterward came the usual self-assured grin. In the swollen left eye, there might even have been a glimmer. The entire fa?ade of certainty to uphold -- that was the one and only…
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?I?m not shocked?
Afterwards came the usual self-assured grin. In the swollen left eye there may even have been a glimmer. The entire fa?ade of certainty to uphold. That was the one and only game…
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Oscar and Manny: Curiosity, money and an empty 45?
Go ahead, admit it. No matter how much of a purist you are, no matter how much you ridiculed this fight?s announcement, no matter how much you see this spectacle as the…
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Surprises in store for Saturday’s Showtime doubleheader
To consider elements of HBO's fall lineup, in light of American capitalism's coming overhaul, is to wonder if we'll ever again have a broadcast year like 2008. Will we not look back…
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The Brothers Marquez revisited
The Olympic torch is lit. The Games have begun. Audacious as boxing promoters usually are with others? time and money, no one wants to go up against the juggernaut in Beijing. So…
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Courage, resignation and the space in between
The spirit of the mass is broken; the original excitement about losing or winning, through which danger was forgotten, is spent, and to the majority danger now appears no longer an appeal…
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Pac-Monster is no lightweight
While promoting his next title defense, WBC lightweight champion David Diaz joked he had a strategy for combating Manny Pacquiao?s best weapon: ?I think the best thing I can do is meet…
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In celebration of what?s good for us
How much fun has it been getting to know WBC lightweight champion David Diaz? For the first time in years Manny Pacquiao has had an opponent who is happy to help him…
