All Three Judges Agree 116-112, Usyk Outpoints Fury, Retains World Heavyweight Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (December 22, 2024)– Oleksandr Usyk, came on strongly in rounds six, seven, eight and nine to take complete control over a reactive Tyson Fury and retain the lineal, WBC, WBA and […]
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Former World Champion Wilfredo Benitez, 66, Moved to Chicago Hospital Intensive Care By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Known as ‘The Bible of Boxing’, former World Junior Welterweight, Welterweight and Super Welterweight World champion Wilfredo ‘El Radar’ Benitez, 66, in declining health for years under the care of his late mother, […]
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French WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Thierry Jacob Dies at 59 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Paris, France (December 25th, 2024)–Former southpaw World Boxing Council World Super Bantamweight champion Thierry Jacob has died of lung cancer in his native Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France at age 59. Between 1984 and 1994, Jacob compiled a […]
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UFC Fight Night Tampa Results & Video Highlights By MMA News UFC Fight Night took place tonight from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida and MMA News has you covered with all the results and highlights! In the main event, welterweights Colby Covington and Joaquin Buckley clashed. While in the co-main event, Cub Swanson faced Billy Quarantillo in a […]
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Usyk Favored by Decision in Kingdom Arena Rematch Before Return to Cruiserweight By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sign up to Watch Usyk vs. Fury 2 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (December 21st, 2024)– Lineal World Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is predicted to defeat former champion Tyson Fury by a split decision or […]
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A Fond Farewell to ‘The Demon From Philadelphia’, Buster Drayton, Showtime’s First Main Event By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Philadelphia, PA (November 30th, 2022)– He rose from the sweat, blood, and guts of boxing gyms of Philadelphia to become the principal sparring partner of Marvelous Marvin Hagler to become the Junior […]
WBO World Champion Moises Fuentes Dies on Thanksgiving Day From Brain Injury By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Cancun, Mexico (November 25th, 2022)– According to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, former World Boxing Organization World Minimumweight and Light Flyweight champion Moises Fuentes passed away on Thursday morning from a brain injury […]
Mysterious Career and End of Cleveland Golden Gloves Champion Ted Gullick By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent A native of Youngstown, Ohio, trained by Sammy Greggs, 1961 Ohio Golden Gloves champion Ted Gullick fought his way out of prison through boxing, compiling a 43-1 record, with 41 knockouts, and his only amateur […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Muhammad Ali versus Hockey Player Dave Semenko on June 12, 1983 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Six thousand fans of both hockey and boxing were present on June 12, 1983, in Edmonton, Canada, for a bizarre Ripley’s Believe It or Not style three-round exhibition between Muhammad Ali, age […]
Response to Ken Hissner, Best Thai Pro Boxers Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In response to my comrade in boxing, Ken Hissner of Seconds Out, this reporter proposes his list of the best professional boxers to come out of Thailand. No records are padded on this list per se. Rather, […]
A Critical Analysis of Big George Foreman’s Top Ten All-Time Heavyweight Greats List Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former World Heavyweight champion George Foreman put out his personal list of the top ten heavyweights of all-time, not including Big George himself. Looking at the top ten chart we can analyze […]
Remembering The War of the Worlds: When Wrestler Antonio Inoki Challenged Muhammad Ali The Boxer By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late great Antonio Inoki passed away on October 1, 2022. Anoki was part of the strangest boxer versus wrestler freak show ever staged on television with modified restrictive rules. […]
Hall of Fame Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion Eder Jofre of Brazil Dies at 86 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sao Paulo, Brazil (October 7th, 2022)– Former World Bantamweight and Featherweight champion Eder Jofre of Brazil, the only Brazilian boxer ever inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, has died […]
Little Poison, Ex-WBC Super Bantam Champ Rigoberto Riasco, Dies at 69 in Panama By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Panama City, Panama (August 31, 2022)– Former lineal and World Boxing Council Super Bantamweight World champion Rigoberto “Little Poison” Riasco, who dominated the lower weights in the 1970s, has died in his native […]
Former WBC Featherweight Champion Johnny Famechon Dies at 77, Beat Fighting Harada Twice By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Melbourne, Australia (August 5th, 2022)– Australian Boxing Hall of Fame Featherweight Johnny Famachon, who won the World Boxing Council Featherweight title and defeated Fighting Harada of Japan twice, has passed away after a […]
Robert Brizel Editorial: The Battle Scars and Polish Wars of Tomasz Adamek Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media While well promoted, cruiserweight and heavyweight Tomasz Adamek won many bouts, and surprised many boxing observers on occasion. Now 45 years old, Adamek, 53-6 with 31 […]
Michael Dokes vs. Gerrie Coetzee, Only Heavyweight Title Bout Between Two Fighters Coming Off Draws By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent When we think of the heavyweight division, one outcome fight fans do not expect is a draw, at four, six, eight, 10, 12 or even 15 rounds (in the 15 round […]
When Leon Spinks Was Neon: February 15, 1978 at The Hilton in Las Vegas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rare appears to be the championship bouts contested at The Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada. Perhaps the most noteworthy Vegas Hilton titular bout was the victory by “Neon” Leon Spinks over Muhammad […]
This WBC Championship Belt Rumbled in The Jungle! Indianapolis Colts Owner Jim Irsay Buys Muhammad Ali’s Kinshasa Belt at Heritage Auctions For 6.16 Million Dollars By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Indianapolis, Indiana (July 25th, 2022)– Muhammad Ali was “The Greatest” of all time, and in Kinshasa, Zaire, on October 30, 1974, […]
Noteworthy Heavyweight Boxing History Crumbles Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Disclaimer: *These are the opinions of Robert Brizel and not Real Combat Media or any of its members… Sometimes it is the bout, the final bout, a sequence of bouts, or just plain a promising fighter whose career suddenly, abruptly […]
WBC Remembers Mandela on 104th Birthday, Boxing Belt Stolen From Mandela Museum By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On what would have been his 104th birthday, the late South African political activist and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela is being remembered by the World Boxing Council. The WBC, on its website, called Mandela a historic, […]
Madison Square Garden Converse Sneaker Brigade: Lightweight Johnny Verderosa While The Heat Lasted By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Success in boxing, professional sports in life often boils down to discipline versus the reactive mind. In the case of lightweight prospect Johnny “The Heat’ Verderosa, between 1979 and 1984, Verderosa lit the […]
When Muhammad Ali Got Pissed at Ernie Terrell During Vietnam War in 1967 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late World Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, in the 1960’s as world champion, was at his best in fighting prime when he defeated Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, and Ernie […]
Remembering Ukrainian Amateur Champion Oleg Prudkyi, Killed in War at Age 30 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former two-time Ukrainian amateur super lightweight champion Oleg Prudkyi, a member of the Cherkasy Special Forces, was killed with three other special forces police on May 22, 2022, in battle in Ukraine, as reported […]
Remembering the White Ali, Light Heavyweight James Salerno, Murdered for His Truck By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent James Salerno, the so-called ‘Mouth of the South’ and showboating ‘White Muhammad Ali’ began his amateur boxing career at age nine after becoming inspired to do so after watching Muhammad Ali’s televised bout with […]
Ex-Two Division World Champion Carlos Ortiz, Pride of Puerto Rico, Dies at 85 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (June 15th, 2022)– Generally regarded as Puerto Rico’s greatest pound for pound fighter ever, former World Lightweight and World Light Welterweight World champion Carlos Ortiz, Puerto Rico’s first International Boxing […]
35 Bout Screwball 100 MPH Career of Omaha Welterweight Vince Foster By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent He almost got a shot at Sugar Ray Robinson. Between July 1946 and July 1949, Omaha welterweight prospect Vince Foster, age 21, fought 35 pro bouts, came into the ring and went out in less […]
Irish Micky Ward, Underestimated King of Lethal Body Shots And Left Hooks By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In the history of professional boxing in the modern era, one name stands out as being king of the devastating pinpoint body shots and left hooks, Irish Micky Ward, a fighter who made his […]
European Heavyweight Champion Jürgen Blin Dies at 79, Fought Muhammad Ali in 1971 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hamburg, Germany (May 9th,2022)– Former European Heavyweight champion Jurgen Blin of Germany, who fought Joe Bugner twice, Muhammad Ali, won the European Heavyweight championship after fighting Ali, and fought his last bout […]
ZAB JUDAH AND ERROL SPENCE JR. VIRTUAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES WBC and IBF Welterweight Champion Spence Jr. Joined by Last Undisputed Welterweight Champion Judah For Conversation Previewing Showdown Against Yordenis Ugas Spence Meets WBA Champion Ugas for Welterweight Title Unification Showdown Live on SHOWTIME PPV Saturday, April 16 in Premier Boxing Champions Event From AT&T […]
Five Suspects Are Arrested in Murder of Hector “Macho” Camacho Ten Years Later By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Bayamon, Puerto Rico (March 11th, 2022)– Ten years after the murder of colorful boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, in 2012, five men have been arrested and charged with the […]
Heavyweight Ron Stander, The Bluffs Butcher, Dies of Diabetes at 77, Fought Smokin’ Joe Frazier for World Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former heavyweight contender Ron Stander, “The Bluffs Butcher”, who fought Smokin’ Joe Frazier for the world heavyweight title in 1972, and also fought Ken Norton, Scott LeDeux, Gerrie […]
Ex-Muay Thai and WBA Flyweight Champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai Dies at 77 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Bangkok, Thailand (March 8th, 2022)– Former Muay Thai champion and World Boxing Association World Flyweight champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai, also known as Tinapong Hantanakul and Berkrerk Lookyodfah, has died in his native Bangkok, Thailand. Chartvanchai […]
Middleweight Contender Gangster Hurricane Eddie Melo and the Canadian Mafia By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late Canadian middleweight and light heavyweight contender and veteran gangster Eduardo Manuel Deus “Eddie The Hurricane” Melo was born in Portugal, and raised in Toronto, Canada. Fighting between 1978 and 1986, Melo’s career record […]
Without The Smoke: Last Philadelphia Days of The Late Heavyweight Champion Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Career Reflections By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In Joe Frazier’s final years, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, without his usual lifelong colorful personality of emotional “Smoke”, suffered from type 2 diabetes, a diseased liver, and underwent surgery for […]
Legend of Roccia del Piave, Italian Heavyweight Giuseppe Ros, Olympic Bronze Medalist, Dies at 79 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Susegana, Italy (February 18th, 2022)– Known as “The Legend of The Rocce del Piave”, sixty bout Italian heavyweight boxing veteran Giuseppe “Bebi” Ros, Italian Heavyweight Military amateur champion in 1963, who […]
Crazy Eddie Machen, 1960s Heavyweight Contender of Mystery By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent He was known as “The Black Gene Tunney” as his fighting style most closely resembled the undefeated legendary world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, who beat Jack Dempsey twice. “Crazy’ Eddie Machen, the 1960s heavyweight champion of mystery, probably […]
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