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By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ oncedefeated Lithuanian welterweight Egidijus Kavaliauskas made a decisive and violent recovery of his mainevent match with Canada’s oncedefeated Mikael...
“Real eyes real-ize”
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday evening at quittin’ time came the first COVID-19 emergency notification in more than a month, and this time,...
Trying to care: Ramirez decisions Postol on ESPN+
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on ESPN+ in Las Vegas undefeated American junior welterweight titlist Jose Ramirez went 12 successful rounds with Ukrainian technician Viktor Postol...
Porter, Povetkin, Smith, Roomba
By Bart Barry-
Saturday in three mainevents that miraculously did not conflict and more miraculously concluded before midnight ESPN’s Joe Smith beat the fight out...
David Benavidez: The thrill is going
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on Showtime undefeated former super middleweight titlist David “El Bandera Roja” Benavidez stopped Colombian ironchin Roamer Alexis Angulo with 10 rounds...
One aficionado’s return to Showtime Boxing
By Bart Barry-
He fumbles on his cell, trying to recall why he deleted the ESPN+ app, or if he did, or at least when...
A tepid celebration for what’s competitive
By Bart Barry-
Saturday on DAZN in the main event of a card from England’s Fight Camp, and therefore blessedly broadcast early afternoon here in...
Self-organization: Vergil, Samuel and Sergio
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Friday DAZN returned to boxing broadcasting with a good mainevent from Indio, Calif., in which undefeated Texas welterweight Vergil Ortiz...
Chaucer, Brown, The Marquez and a lil’ Yori Boy
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – No reprieve. The grim numbers grow grimmer each evening as a fine local publication, RivardReport, sends its weeknightly communique...
Observing the glow
By Bart Barry-
Last week while reading The Wind in the Reeds by Wendell Pierce, I reflected on what it was about Pierce’s character, The...
The lost immersion
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday the emergency alert came on everyone’s cell round noon local time and read “punishable by a fine of...
Silly boxing / Serious events
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday the emergency alert came on everyone’s cell at 7:00 PM local time and read STAY HOME, a first...
Joy in a book well-constructed
By Bart Barry-
Tuesday marked the publication date of Toronto writer Jimmy Tobin’s Killed in Brazil? The mysterious death of Arturo “Thunder” Gatti (Hamilcar Publications,...
And a lunatic shall lead us
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Saturday I went for a drive in a random direction and learned a bit more about the spread of...
Tuesday’s tentative Return
By Bart Barry-
Tuesday evening on ESPN undefeated American featherweight titlist “Fearless” Shakur Stevenson will make a 10-round match with Puerto Rico’s oncedefeated Felix Caraballo...
An inexpert column by someone who didn’t even wish to write...
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Onto the kindling of this city’s massive unemployment and bursting foodbank lines and COVID-19 fear and socialdistancing alienation dropped...
Two rounds on the heavybag hearing Barry White, May 2011
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Get it swinging stiff it arm it bring the hook hard sand unsoftened heaviness heaviness dig the hook...
Highschool fourballers, German vampires and vanishing defiance
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – A curious scenario now plays in this city re COVID-19. Told they can come out their residences and resume...
An interview with the quarantined boxing writer by the quarantined boxing...
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Since 2016 we’ve allowed Bart Barry to interview himself about the state of the craft once annually when he is...
Ghostwriting for Kevin Barry in West Texas
By Bart Barry-
Hotel Viejoyhermoso, San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, on a Friday evening in June 2012
Worst scorecard I’ve seen, you, Bruce?
What were you...
Sans boxing Saturdays: Atocha, Velazquez and Petruchio
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Nothing is returned to normal, not even our last catastrophe’s new normal, and it becomes more obvious the few...
One way to create layers in writing
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Ten years ago I moved here and
promptly failed an eye test for my Texas drivers license so badly the...
What I like about that is . . . and another...
By Bart Barry--It’s an exercise we did in a coaching workshop in Boston to help coaches listen more deeply and improvise more freely with...
Writing for those who love to read
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Friday afternoon, 10 miles southeast
of here, restrictions got eased by local government and free COVID-19 testing
became much more accessible...
Staying at Home for Leaders
By Bart Barry-
SAN ANTONIO – Frantic is the word for it. I sat on the back porch Saturday morning and watched through the yards...
Reading in a time of quarantine
By Bart Barry
SAN ANTONIO – If writing this column in a time of
quarantine has advantages they are not immediately apparent. This city has reacted...
Re-viewing Fury-Wilder 2
By Bart Barry-
Initiative is the word for it.
It’s what Deontay Wilder had in the first match
and lacked in the second, the first 30 seconds...
Chocolatito City rebuilt
By Bart Barry-
Editor’s note: Chocolatito City
was a five-part series written in the doldrums of 2016.
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Saturday in Frisco, Texas, Nicaraguan Roman
“Chocolatito” Gonzalez defeated Birmingham’s Khalid...
Fury-Wilder 2: Here we go again
By Bart Barry-
“Playing to strengths delivers excellence; merely
fixing weaknesses does not.” – Paddy Upton, “The Barefoot Coach”
Saturday in Las Vegas, British heavyweight Tyson
“Gypsy King”...
Can’t stand to see Chocolatito’s last stand
By Bart Barry-
Three Saturdays from now a comain at the Dallas
Cowboys’ practice facility will feature Nicaragua’s Roman “Chocolatito”
Gonzalez, the once king of our beloved...
