Bart Barry
132 articles · 15rounds.com
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An aggressor, a counterpuncher and a possible blueprint
By Bart Barry
For once, every pundit had it right about a world championship fight. We all predicted Pacquiao-Marquez II would be a battle between an aggressor throwing straight punches and a counterpuncher punishing his…
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Bar none, Pacquiao-Marquez will be one of 2008?s best fights
By Bart Barry
A couple of months ago I was in a Phoenix bar with two of Arizona?s best sportswriters. The subject turned to boxing. Manny Pacquiao?s name surfaced. I told the table I might…
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Marquez?s intangible class
By Bart Barry
In an era with 85 ?major? championship belts stretched across 17 weight classes, the old riddle of what separates a champion from a perennial contender has lost some of its snap. But…
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Barrera?s Beautiful Mind
By Bart Barry
It really was Marco Antonio Barrera?s last fight. After an early career marked by reckless exchanges with all comers and a late career marked by careful exchanges with well-selected comers, sometime in…
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Barrera survives Pacquiao, loses and retires
By Bart Barry
LAS VEGAS, NV ? ?Will to Win? was the event?s promotional tagline, but ?Will to Survive? was more accurate. Marco Antonio Barrera survived his final prizefight. Much more than that cannot be…
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Pacquiao and Barrera show Will (and physiques) to Win
By Bart Barry
LAS VEGAS, NV ? Friday afternoon at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Manny Pacquiao (44-3-2, 35 KOs) and Marco Antonio Barrera (63-5, 42 KOs) climbed on the scales to make weight for…
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Vegas in October
By Bart Barry
I don’t particularly like Las Vegas. Its charms defy me. I work while I’m in the city. Friday brings a weigh-in, Saturday brings a fight card and Sunday morning brings a column.…
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Remember the Alamodome
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO, TX – The next time pundits and promoters imply that Las Vegas and Los Angeles are the only western cities worthy of pay-per-view shows, boxing fans can toss this Davy…
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Early results from San Antonio
By Bart Barry
The evening’s second match featured Oxnard’s highly touted prospect Victor Ortiz (17-1-1, 12 KOs) in an excellent super-lightweight scrap with Texas’ Tomas Barrientes (27-11-1, 17 KOs) that saw five knockdowns – Barrientes…
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Pacman the Peerless
By Bart Barry
Every serious boxing fan going to Las Vegas for May 5, raise your hand. Oh. Fewer than expected. And those of you planning to watch “The World Awaits” on pay-per-view? OK. That’s…
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An Oscar Preview?
By Bart Barry
There?s never a bad day to write about boxing in the Southwest. Here in Arizona, we have a finicky but dedicated army of aficionados, a target demographic of Mexican fans to make…
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Perhaps a Pacquiao Pamphlet?
By Bart Barry
This pound-for-pound thing is beyond me, I admit. It seems to have started nobly enough, years ago, as a way of taking Sugar Ray Robinson?s ample achievements, adding fifty pounds to them,…