Barry Tompkins

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Barry Tompkins (born circa 1940) is a well known American sportscaster. He is better known for his work as a boxing commentator, but he has covered football and another number of sports as well.

Tompkins first came into prominence alongside Larry Merchant and Sugar Ray Leonard as a member of the HBO Boxing show's team. He called fights at HBO for many years and some of his commentaries became famous, such as his call when Alexis Arguello was hurt by Aaron Pryor in round fourteen of their Battle of the Champions (Arguello...oh! Arguello is hurt!!), when Hector Camacho was buckled by Edwin Rosario in round five of their fight (Camacho had never been hurt before!) and when Mike Tyson won the WBC world Heavyweight title with a second round knockout of Trevor Berbick (And we have a new era in boxing.).

Tompkins made his acting debut in 1985, when he portrayed a USA Network sports-caster during the Rocky Balboa-Ivan Drago fight in Rocky IV. Later he moved to the ESPN network, where he covered mostly ten round bouts alongside Al Bernstein on Thursday Night Fights for a number of years.

Currently, Tompkins is the color commentator of the Fox Sports Network's Sunday Night Fights, and he travels through the United States alongside Sean O' Grady and Amy Hayes each two weeks to tape the Fox fight show. Tompkins commentates much of FSN's poker coverage, including the Aussie Millions and Poker Dome Challenge. Most recently, he has ventured into the sport of mixed martial arts as commentator for the newly revamped World Fighting Alliance.

Tompkins covered Pacific Ten Conference college football with Petros Papadakis in the 2005 season. Tompkins has also announced Pac-10 basketball games for Fox Sports Net alongside Dan Belluomini.