All 28 fighters made weight at UFC Vegas 124. Full card records, weights and odds, main card film study and weigh-in video for Waldo Cortes-Acosta vs Johnny Walker.
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Under Men’s Rules 10×3 Rounds, Turhan vs. Baumgardner Heads MVP Texas Card By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Prediction Record: (184-44-10), (9-5-1) in Main Events Arlington, Texas (November 6th, 2026)– In the main event of a ten bouts ESPN, ESPN Deportes and Sky Sports UK televised card promoted by Jake Paul’s MVP […]
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Ex-World Heavyweight Champion Oliver McCall, 61, Stops Jeremiah Williams in Fifth By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Corpus Christi, Texas (November 6th, 2026)– At age 61, former World Heavyweight champion Oliver McCall, age 61, continues to be the Jack Johnson of the modern era. McCall, 62-14-1 with 41 knockouts, Corpus Christi, Texas, […]
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Dana White announces Deontay Wilder vs. Jai Opetaia on the Tyson Fury vs. Anthony Joshua card on December 11 in Cardiff, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut.
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Jake Paul vs. Cédric Doumbé is official for December 24 at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. Get the fight details, tale of the tape, press conference dates and what we know about how to watch.
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Boom Boom Alan Minter, Pride of Britain, World Middleweight Champion Dies at Age 69 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (September 12, 2020)– Former World Middleweight champion Alan “Boom Boom” Minter, the Pride of Great Britain, who scrapped his way through a hard-fought career to win the world middleweight […]
Brizel Editorial: Politics of Canelo’s DAZN Breach of Contract 280 million Dollar Lawsuit Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Given the scope and impact of the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic on professional boxing and professional sports, the newly filed lawsuit of Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, represented by their Maloney Law Firm […]
Senegal’s Best, World Lightweight Champion Jean Baptiste Mendy, Dies at 57 *Photo Credit: Boxer Rec By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (September 3rd, 2020)– Jean-Baptiste Mendy, perhaps the best professional boxer ever to come out of Senegal, who fought out of Paris, France, and held the European Lightweight title, […]
Ex-Champ Yoan Pablo Hernandez Comeback After Six Years As Heavyweight Ends The Hard Way By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Team SES/ P. Gercke photo Magdeburg, Germany (August 26th, 2020)– The comeback of former International Boxing Federation World Cruiserweight champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez hit a roadblock after six years inactivity […]
Dmitriy Salita Interview and Five Bout Detroit Kronk Gym Card Preview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Detroit, MI (August 10th, 2020)– Dmitriy Salita and Salita Promotions will present a seven-bout professional boxing card of young rising prospects at the New Kronk Gym in Detroit, […]
Brother Naazim Richardson, Philly Boxing Trainer Extraordinaire and a Friend to All, Dies at 55 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Philadelphia boxing trainer Naazim Richardson passed away on Friday July 25, 2020, at age 55. Richardson, who had a history of health issues, including […]
Why A Heavyweight Title Bout on a Boat or in a Castle is Absurd Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: mirror.co.uk Promoter Eddie Hearn proposes to reschedule the Anthony Joshua versus Kubrat Pulev mandatory World Heavyweight title defense on a boat or in a castle sometime later in 2020. Joshua, […]
WBA Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel of Panama Dies at 72, Defeated Alexis Arguello By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (July 1st, 2020)– Retired World Boxing Association World Featherweight champion Ernesto Marcel has died in his native Panama City, Panama at age 72. Marcel compiled a career record of […]
Nigerian Heavyweight Prospect Kingston Ibeh Wins in Las Vegas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Mikey Williams, Top Rank Nigerian heavyweight prospect Kingston “The Black Lion” Ibeh, fighting out of Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the top prospects for June 2020. Ibeh, 4-1 with four knockouts, scored an impressive fourth […]
Fight Manager Jose Taveras Tests Positive For Coronavirus, ESPN Main Event Cancelled By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (June 19th, 2020)– The June 18, 2020, scheduled ESPN and ESPN Deportes 10 round main event bout between junior welterweight contenders Mikkel LesPierre and Jose Pedraza at The Bubble, MGM Grand […]
Magic Mike Plania Upsets WBO Number One Contender Joshua Greer on ESPN By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Top Rank Las Vegas, NV (June 17th, 2020)– Boxing is back. Who wins, however, is sometimes not the expected outcome. Often times, number one contenders fall. World Boxing Organization number one […]
Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino Atlantic City, Famed Boxing Venue, To Be Demolished By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Atlantic City, NJ (June 13th, 2020)– Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which opened on May 14, 1984, as Harrah’s Boardwalk or Harrah’s at Trump […]
Pete Rademacher Dies at 91, Olympic Gold Medalist Fought for Heavyweight Title in First Pro Bout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sandusky, Ohio (June 11th, 2020)– Pete Rademacher, the outgoing heavyweight who won the Chicago Golden Gloves, the All-Army championship, the All-Armed Forces Championship, and the 1956 Olympic Heavyweight Gold […]
From Boxing to Bicycles: The Marlon Thomas Story By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent 48 bout veteran Marlon ‘Trouble Man’ Thomas terrorized the lower weight classes between 1991 and 2014. Fighting out of Detroit, Michigan, Thomas compiled a professional record of 37-9-1 with 21 knockouts, and one No Contest. At […]
Noted Trainer, Ex-World Welterweight Champion Curtis Cokes, Dies in Dallas at 82 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Dallas, TX (June 2nd, 2020)– Former World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council World Welterweight champion Curtis Cokes, who fought in 80 professional bouts between 1958 and 1972, has died in his […]
Riddick Bowe Calls Out Mike Tyson For 10 Round War! Ten Million Dollars Winner Take All! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a Real Combat Media Boxing International exclusive, former World Heavyweight champion Riddick ‘Big Daddy’ Bowe, in a new interview, is calling out for World Heavyweight champion Iron Mike Tyson […]
Mike Tyson vs. Shannon Briggs In The Works? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Brooklyn, NY (May 19th, 2020)– In the era of numerous proposed Novel Coronavirus charity exhibition comebacks, so many heavyweight names have been thrown into the hat intending to return to the ring for a charity that boxing fans […]
The Real Deal Returns! Evander Holyfield Announces Comeback at Age 57. By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (May 7th, 2020)– First, Iron Mike Tyson announced a comeback for charity. Now Evander Holyfield has announced he is making a comeback for charity. Maybe every former heavyweight champion will get […]
Fight or Bite? Iron Mike Tyson Training For Comeback at 53 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (May 3rd, 2020)–From Jack Johnson to Jack Dempsey to Joe Louis, from George Foreman to Sonny Liston, from Smokin’ Joe Frazier toto Muhammad Ali to Wladimir Klitschko, many former heavyweight champions […]
Ex-World Middleweight Champion Michael Nunn Seeks Kickboxing Comeback At Age 57 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Davenport, Iowa (April 30th, 2020)– Former International Boxing Federation World Middleweight champion and World Boxing Association Super Middleweight champion Michael Nunn, 57, who was released from prison in April 2019 after serving 17 […]
David Haye Seeks Fury-Joshua Winner, Heavyweight and WSOP Belts By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, Nevada (April 27th, 2020)– David ‘The Hayemaker’ Haye, Great Britain’s former world cruiserweight and heavyweight champion, is seeking a unique professional daily double of sorts. Haye, 28-4 with 26 knockouts, age 39, Bermondsey, United Kingdom, […]
Robin Zamora Wins Eight Round Main Event on Face mask Boxing Card in Nicaragua By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Managua, Nicaragua (April 26th, 2020)–The capital city of Managua, Nicaragua, has broken the long dry spell of no live boxing events since March 11, 2020, over a month, by staging […]
Leo Santa Cruz Calls Out Gervonta Davis By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Los Angeles, CA (April, 25th, 2020)– Both Leon Santa Cruz and Gervonta Davis have World Boxing Association championship pedigrees. Santa Cruz, 37-1-1 with 19 knockouts, Rosemead, California, by way of Huetamo, Mexico, the World Boxing Association Super […]
Barry Hearn Says Fury Versus Joshua Could Be Next By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent English sporting events promoter Barry Hearn, the founder and chairman of promotions company Matchroom Sport, has now come forward in the midst of the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic with an all-United Kingdom titular spectacular heavyweight proposal. Tyson Fury […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Rocky Marciano vs. Sonny Liston By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There have been fantasy tournaments, and dream matchups, but some matchup concepts have proven more popular than others. Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Larry Holmes and Jack Johnson are some of the stronger and more […]
Detroit Trainer of Champions, Ali Harrison, Father of Ex WBC Champ Tony Harrison, Dies at 59 From COVID-19 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Detroit, MI (April 21, 2020)– On April 20, 2020, this reporter’s friend, Ali Harrison Salaam, the father and trainer of former […]
Adonis Stevenson Controversy! Ex-Champ, Mom, and Ex Go to Court Over Missing Money and Visitation By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In twenty months, former World Boxing Council World Light Heavyweight champion Adonis ‘Superman’ Stevenson has seemed to make a remarkable recovery from brain surgery after getting knocked out by Oleksandr […]
Egos in Isolation! Bud Crawford and Iron Man Charlo in Nasty Social Media Trash Talk By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Houston, Texas (April 16th, 2020)– Social isolation may be extended during the Coronavirus Pandemic. However, physical isolation has not stopped the ongoing nasty social media trash talk between Top Rank’s […]
Robert Brizel Editorial: Iron Mike Tyson vs. Muhammad Ali Would End in a 15 Round Draw By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In the recent heavyweight fantasy tournament, the only boxing tournament at the moment, put together by the World Boxing Super Series, Tyson defeated Ali in the final round to […]
Yaya Mayweather Hires Attorney, Faces 99 Years for Aggravated Assault with Weapon By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (April 13th, 2020)– Iyanna ‘Yaya’ Mayweather has hired noted Houston celebrity attorney Kurt Schaffer to defend her and intends to plead not guilty in August 2020 with a defense of […]
Dana White Cancels UFC 249 By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media MMA Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (April 10th, 2020)– UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White has called off UFC 249, scheduled for April 18, 2020, after being unable to find a way to circumvent the current Coronavirus Pandemic, and work successfully with the […]
Bellator Fighter Isaiah ‘The Beast’ Chapman Dies in Ohio at Age 30 By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media MMA Correspondent Akron, Ohio (April 9th, 2020)– Bellator flyweight and featherweight Isaiah ‘The Beast’ Chapman, an amateur and professional veteran of 25 MMA bouts between 2009 and 2019, has died at age 30 after being […]
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