KEITH THURMAN VS. DANNY GARCIA MEDIA CALL & TRANSCRIPT Lou DiBella Thank you, everybody, for joining us for this call for what I think is going to be a Fight of the Year, if not the Fight of the Year, between champions Keith Thurman and Danny Garcia, the World Welterweight Championship Unification at Barclays Center […]
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Author: John Gatling- Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent
LISA MARIE LOZANO – BRAVEST WOMAN IN BOXING
LISA MARIE LOZANO – BRAVEST WOMAN IN BOXING By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent Run your fingers through my soul for once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe perceive as I perceive look, experience, examine and for once; just once, Understand… _______________ You may have a good […]
Boxing and MMA Should Join Forces To Form an Empire
Boxing and MMA should join forces to form an empire Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent If You’re Reading This It’s Not Too Late… A few weeks ago, I aimed and fired a machine gun loaded with hollow-tipped words in the direction of Colin Cowherd (former ESPN broadcaster and current host […]
MANNY PACQUIAO LEAVES HBO WITH HIS COUNSELOR BOB ARUM
MANNY PACQUIAO LEAVES HBO WITH HIS COUNSELOR BOB ARUM Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent “Pakow’. ‘Manny Pic.. Pacqua’. Excuse me…”, stumbled Jim Lampley out of the block, in HBO’s historic first encounter of a legendary kind with the iconic Manny Pacquiao. In circa June 2001, a Filipino bandana wearing “Pac-Man” […]
Mikey Garcia gives back to his community; wants bout with WBO champion Terry Flanagan
Mikey Garcia gives back to his community; eyes bout with WBO lightweight champion Terry Flanagan (RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA) Undefeated, former two-division WBO champion Mikey Garcia (35-0, 29 KOs) teamed up with Riverside Police Officers on Tuesday, August 10, to hand out one hundred backpacks and various school supplies to kids in the Casa Blanca neighborhood. The event […]
IS ANDRE WARD AVOIDING SERGEY KOVALEV?
IS ANDRE WARD SCARED OF SERGEY KOVALEV? Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent “I’m excited. I had to get past this step, [Kovalev] got past his step. If I’m not ready to fight the best now, I’ll never be ready.” Andre Ward, after his tedious 12 round UD over Alexander Brand, […]
WARD VS. BRAND WEIGH-IN VIDEO AND PREVIEW
WARD VS. BRAND WEIGH-IN VIDEO AND PREVIEW By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent Oakland, CA (August 5th, 2016)– Former super middleweight kingpin Andre Ward (29-0, 15KOs) will seek to further test his strength at light heavyweight against tough veteran Alexander Brand (25-1, 19KOs) at Oracle Arena this Saturday, August 6 on HBO. […]
Brooklyn’s Heather Hardy vs. Shelito Vincent; Big Fight For The Revitalization of Women’s Boxing & Media Roundtable Quotes
Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent Heather Hardy to finally face Shelito Vincent Brooklyn, NY (August 4th, 2016)– “I won’t say this is the fight of my life, because there’s still so much more I want to do in this sport. This is a step forward for me, a step up […]
Amanda Serrano – The Best Female Boxer On The Planet?
Amanda Serrano – The Best Female Boxer On The Planet Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent Around the time Ronda Rousey burst onto the scene: courtesy of a chilling, arm breaking dismantling of Miesha Tate; Brooklyn’s Amanda Serrano toiled in anonymity while losing to legendary former WBC featherweight champion Frida Wallberg […]
“The Making of Manny Pacquiao vs. Terence Crawford? – High Stakes Poker”
“The Making of Manny Pacquiao vs. Terence Crawford? – High Stakes Poker” Editorial By John Gatling, Real Combat Media NY Boxing Correspondent The cards are all over the table and the stage is set for Nov 5. But will Manny Pacquiao play or fold? Following Terence Crawford’s uber-athletic rinsing of Viktor Postol to become the […]
MIKEY GARCIA RCM INTERVIEW: DISCUSSES 135lb, TOP RANK, CRAWFORD VS. POSTOL AND THE RETURN FIGHT
MIKEY GARCIA RCM INTERVIEW DISCUSSES 135lb, TOP RANK, CRAWFORD VS. POSTOL AND THE RETURN FIGHT By John Gatling, Real Combat Media New York Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (July 19th, 2016)– Former WBO featherweight and super featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (34-0, 28 KOs) returns to action at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn against former champ […]