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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Dr. Mario Yagobi and Boxing 360’s Million Dollar Mistake Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media In 2009, Dr. Mario Yagobi founded Boxing 360 in New York City, with former New York State Athletic Commissioner right-hand as his right hand man. Together, the two put […]
Rob Brant Retains WBA Middleweight Title, Stops Khasan Baysangurov on ESPN By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hinckley, Minn (February 16th, 2018)– Rob Brant retained his World Boxing Association World Middleweight title with an impressive eleventh round stoppage of game challenger Khasan Baysangurov in the USA ESPN televised main event on Friday, […]
Battling Bartender Lee Savold: Doctor’s Office Mystery Photo Solved Recently, at my doctor’s office in New Jersey, this reporter was confronted with a please ‘solve the mystery’ of the boxing photo on the wall, as in who was the other fighter in the photo with Joe Louis, ‘The Brown Bomber’ who held the world heavyweight […]
June 1 Garden Humdinger: Is it Joshua or Miller Time? Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The mainstream verbal expression “It’s Miller Time!” is most commonly associated with the act of consuming Miller Beer. However, in colloquial English, “It’s Miller Time” implies “It’s time to call it a day, lighten up […]
Unbeaten Michigan Fighters Isiah Jones & Taylor Duerr, Central US Prospects of Month By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Two undefeated Michigan regional prospects, middleweight Isiah Jones and cruiserweight Taylor ‘Machine Gun’ Duerr, are the Real Combat Media USA Central Region ‘Prospects of the Month’ for February 2019. Undefeated rising Michigan Dave […]
Viva Los Dos Carlos! Ramirez, Servania, and Beltran Win Key WBC Bouts By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Three key World Boxing Council titular bouts took place on Sunday, February 10, 2019. 24-0 Jose Carlos Ramirez of Avenal, California, retained his WBC World Super Lightweight title by 12 round majority decision over […]
The Lady From Windsor: Female Lightweight Champion Kara Ro Interview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On Friday evening, February 8, 2019, at a Carlos Llinas promotions boxing card at Motor City Casino’s Sound Board venue in Detroit, Michigan, retired undefeated Women’s International World Lightweight champion Kara Ro sat down for an […]
WBA Super Featherweights in California: Davis KOs Bloody Ruiz, Cancio KOs Machado By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis made a fool out of Hugo Ruiz, a substitute for the injured Abner Mares in the Showtime main event. Ruiz tried to fight up one weight class. It evolved into […]
Mexican Boxer Victor Ruiz Scores A Huge Upset Ko over Christian Carto in Philly By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Mexican southpaw super flyweight ringer Victor ‘Pelon’ Ruiz, whose mysterious 23-10 record during his eight-year professional career includes all of his 16 knockouts in the first three rounds, scored the Real Combat […]
Isiah Jones Defeats Tyner in Detroit War at Motor City Casino! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent- Ringside Detroit, MI (February 10th,2019)–In the main event of a nine-bout card promoted by Carlos Llinas CLIP Productions, sponsored by Hutch’s Jewelry, at Sound Board at Motor City Casino, Detroit, Michigan, rising undefeated junior middleweight […]
Rocky Lockridge, Former Junior Lightweight World Champion, Dies at 60 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Camden, NJ (February 8th, 2019)– Former lineal world junior lightweight champion Rick ‘Rocky’ Lockridge, who gave himself and trainer Lou Duva a world title when he knocked out undefeated Roger Mayweather in 98 seconds to win […]
Leo Santa Cruz vs. Rafael Rivera Fox Preview & Undercard By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Los Angeles, CA (February 6th, 2018)– It will be anything goes, and sparks will fly, at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on February 16, 2019, when Leo ‘El Terremoto’ Santa Cruz of Mexico will defend […]
Ringer Ding Ding! UK Boxer Poochi Poetsch Wins Weirdest Fight of the Year So Far By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In the grand tradition of 300 bout perennial loser and ringer Peter Buckley (who won his last bout), British light heavyweight ringer Lewis ‘Poochi’ van Poetsch has fought the Real Combat […]
Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev, Back to Basics with Trainer Buddy McGirt, Regains WBO Title Over Elieder Alvarez By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Frisco, Texas, (February 3, 2018)– Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev regained his World Boxing Organization World Light Heavyweight title with an impressive 12 round decision over Eleider Alvarez in the main event […]
Saul Farah, The Fenix Assassin By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent 93 bout Bolivian heavyweight journeyman Saul Farah is known as ‘El Fenix Asesino’. Turning pro in 2004, Farah’s 15-year boxing record is 67 wins, 23 losses, and four draws, with 58 knockouts. He will fight anyone anywhere anyplace anytime at a […]
Carlos Llinas Presents February 8 Night of Knockouts XV Live at Motor City Casino Detroit By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Detroit, Michigan (February 2, 2019)–Carlos Ilinas Productions, matchmaker Aaron Rodriguez and Sound Board at Motor City Casino in Detroit, Michigan, will host an explosive evening of exciting boxing entitled ‘February 8 […]
Revenge or End on ESPN? Killer Kovalev vs. Storm Alvarez WBO Rematch Preview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Frisco, TX (February 1st, 2019)– Bob Arum’s Top Rank Promotions will present a nine-bout card of professional boxing on ESPN featuring four regional and two world title bouts, on Saturday, February 2, 2019, […]
Wild War! Beware of Cuatito, Davis vs. Ruiz Preview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Mexico’s former World Boxing Association World Bantamweight champion and World Boxing Council World Super Bantamweight champion Hugo Ruiz, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, is nicknamed ‘Cuatito’, and has a nearly 80 percent knockout ratio, with 33 knockouts in […]
British Lightweight Dean Jones, Real Combat Media Ringer of the Month By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Unheralded ‘rising’ British lightweight Dean Jones of Telford, Shropshire, United Kingdom, is the Real Combat Media Ringer of the Month. Great Britain’s newest aspiring ringer, Jones turned pro, and went 0-10 in 2018, then pulled […]
Lopez Takes WBA Champ Thurman to 12 Rounds of Hell. Saturday’s Major Fight Results. By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Brooklyn, NY(January 27th, 2019)– Forget the scorecards at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman retained his World Boxing Council World Welterweight title after going through 12 rounds of […]
Mexico’s El Demoledor Scores Real Combat Media Upset of the Month By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Miami Diaro New York, NY (January 24th, 2018)– Mexican super lightweight Pablo Cesar ‘El Demoledor’ Cano scored the Real Combat Media upset of the month of January 2019 when knocked down durable Jorge […]
Hands of Stone! An Unlucky Boxer Named Tyrone Luckey By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Of all the boxers covered during this reporter’s sports journalism career, New Jersey lightweight Tyrone ‘Hands of Stone’ Luckey, who shares Roberto Duran’s nickname, is the unluckiest boxer ever known. Soft-spoken and well-mannered, Luckey comes across as […]
The Game of Pac-Man. Broner Cries Foul & Jack Loses to Browne By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (January 20th, 2019)– In the arcade game of Pac-Man, Inky, Blinky and Clyde are the male characters who will give you a run for your money. Adrien Broner still talks the talk, […]
Ahmed Elbiali Defeats Allan Green in LA Los Angeles, CA (January 20th, 2019)– Allan Green, 33-6 with 22 knockouts, Tulsa, Oklahoma, who turned pro in 2002, was inactive between October 2013 and January 2018. Ring rust, advanced age and inactivity have a dramatic effect on speed and timing, and Green’s onetime talent was no exception. […]
Saturday Super Showdown: Pacman vs. Broner, The Moses of The Welterweight Division By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (January 18th, 2019)– Saturday night’s super showdown on January 19, 2019, between Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao and the ever controversial Adrien Broner might turn out to be the fight of the year […]
Pacquiao vs. Broner Super Fight Analysis: The Old Man and The Sea By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (January 14th, 2019)– Manny Pacquiao versus Adrien Broner, scheduled for January 19, 2019, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, is the first super fight of 2019, following Tyson Fury […]
Devin ‘The Dream’ Haney Decisions Undefeated Xolisani Ndongeni on ShoBox: The Next Generation By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Shreveport, Louisiana (January 12th, 2019)– In the televised ShoBox: The Next Generation main event of an eight-bout card televised on USA Showtime, 21-0 Devin ‘The Dream’ Haney moved a step closer to a world […]
Unreal True Story! The Boxing Trainer Who Walked Out of His Own Grave By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Ramon Sosa & Daily Mail Houston, Texas welterweight boxer turned gym owner and boxing coach Ramon Sosa is lucky to be alive. He walked out of his own grave. Mr. Sosa’s […]
Real Combat Media’s Most Significant Fights in 2018 as Seen by Robert Brizel By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Welcome to the 2018 Real Combat Media Boxing Awards. In pro boxing, there are winners, losers and everything in between. 2018 brought many memorable fights. For this writer, seeing Gennady Golovkin beaten on […]
15 Heavyweight Opponents For A Travis Kauffman Comeback Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media With his recent tenth round stoppage loss to Luis ‘King Kong’ Ortiz, Pennsylvania heavyweight contender Travis Kauffman, 32-3, 18 knockouts, Reading, Pennsylvania, now training in Texas without distraction, needs to […]
Jamaican Heavyweight Oliver Wright Dies, Fought Holmes, Bonavena and The Best By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Boxer Rec Atlanta, Georgia (December 30th, 2018)– Jamaican heavyweight Oliver Wright, who fought in the 1968 Mexico City and 1972 Munich Olympics, but later became more historically famous in the heavyweight division […]
Al Certo, Trainer of Hamsho, McGirt, and Others, Dies at 90 *Photo Credit: ‘Professor DP’ By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Newark, NJ (December 28th, 2018)– Secaucus, New Jersey, was the place where you would find Certo’s Custom Tailors, and talk boxing anytime you liked with the legendary Al ‘Certisimo’ Certo, a […]
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