Career
Frauenheim had a weekly boxing column at The Arizona Republic. Apart from his duties as boxing writer, he also reports on Phoenix Suns National Basketball Association basketball games, going to every Suns" game throughout the National Basketball Association season, and he works on National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball games. One of his National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball game reports earned him an award.
Frauenheim is, however, best known for his boxing articles
With his column, he helped Arizonan boxing fans familiarize themselves with boxers such as Johnny Tapia, Fernando Vargas, Danny Romero and many other non Arizonan residents. He was also important in developing a fan base for local fighters including the then amateur Michael Carbajal and Yvonne Trevino.
He has also written columns on the careers of Phoenix residents Jesús González, Vassiliy Jirov, and José Miguel Cotto, who is Puerto Rican. In 1998, Frauenheim was one of the first boxing writers in Arizona to announce that Mike Tyson had moved there.
Frauenheim was one of the first writers to note that Julio César Chávez allegedly left Phoenix without taking a urine drug test for the Arizona State Boxing Commission after his 2000 bout with Kostya Tszyu.
In another of his columns, published on February 1, 2005, he described local trainer Joe Diaz as "volatile". Both awards were related to his work as a special reporter for the Republic at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He also earned the third place on the "Sports enterprise reporting under 1,000 words" category for his article named "de la Hoya set for defining fight".
That same year, he was named, alongside 35 other boxing reporters from across the United States of America, to vote on a proposition by New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer.
The proposition would have introduced a series of measures protecting boxers fighting in the United States. The panel also included Larry Merchant, Wallace Matthews and International Boxing Hall of Fame member, writer Bill Gallo.
Frauenheim is frequently seen at press conferences held before fights in Arizona. He is also sent frequently to Los Angeles and Las Vegas to cover large boxing events for the Arizona Republic.
