Joshua Pacio retained the ONE Strawweight MMA World Title with a first-round submission of Mansur Malachiev at The Inner Circle 21, while Shozo Isojima stopped Eduard Folayang in the co-main event. Full results and video highlights inside.
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Found! Former Olympic Gold Medalist and WBA Champion Mark Breland is Located at a New Jersey Care Facility By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former Golden Gloves champion, 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist and World Boxing Association World Welterweight champion Mark Breland, 63, who had been missing since October 2025, has been located […]
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Granit Stein Retires Felix Sturm by 10 Round Split Decision in Stuttgart By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Stuttgart, Germany (June 13th, 2026)– Announcing his retirement, the 25-year career of former world champion Felix Sturm ended in a sour farewell at Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany, on July 11, 2026. Sturm, age […]
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Murat Gassiev retains his WBA heavyweight title, stopping late replacement Peter Kadiru in Round 6 at VTB Arena in Moscow. Full results, round-by-round breakdown, and video highlights from Gassiev-Kadiru.
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UFC 329 Results: Max Holloway TKOs Conor McGregor in Round 1 after a knee injury cuts short McGregor's five-year comeback. Paddy Pimblett and King Green earn Performance of the Night, Royval-Kavanagh takes Fight of the Night.
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Rocky Marciano and Riddick Bowe: Most Underestimated Heavyweight Champions Ever By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rocky Marciano and Riddick Bowe are former world heavyweight champions of unique distinction. Bowe and Marciano combine for a professional record of 92-1 with a recent win over every opponent they fought. Marciano […]
Iran Blade Barkley Interview: On The Comeback Trail of Life By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel In a recent Real Combat Media interview exclusive ringside, former World Middleweight, Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion Iran ‘The Blade’ Barkley talked comeback, the ring, and more. Barkley, age 54, […]
Earnie Shavers Atomic Bomb Heavyweight Punches By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Called ‘The Black Destroyer’ and ‘The Acorn’, Earnie Shavers scored 68 knockouts in his 89 bout career between 1969 and 1995. His final professional record was 74 wins, 14 losses, and one draw (in a rematch with jimmy Young). […]
Sensational Hooliganism! Boxing Brawl at the Sydney Opera House By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent We speak often of great boxing brawls like Andrew Golota versus Riddick Bowe at Madison Square Garden. One of my favorite brawls occurred in the ring at the Sydney Opera House on April 2, 1982, with […]
Iron Mike Tyson’s Ten Moments of Madness By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Over the years, boxing fans have come to know, love and expect Iron Mike Tyson’s crazy zany moments. More a person of rage than a boxer of raw talent, schooled by the late legendary trainer Cus D’Amato, Iron […]
Are Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Jack Dempsey The Most Overrated Fighters? By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Jack Dempsey, ‘The Manassa Mauler’, and Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr. certainly are two of the most famous names of the sport of boxing, two fighters whose popularity cannot be topped in their respective eras. Jack Dempsey […]
Sensational Sam Langford, The Boston Tar Baby By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Sam Langford, The Boston Tar Baby, was the one fighter Jack Dempsey was afraid of and absolutelyrefused to fight. Langford figured into 316 professional bouts between 1902 and 1926, winning 179, losing 30, drawing 39, with a record of 31-14-16 […]
Remembering Harold Johnson, Light Heavyweight Champion By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Harold Johnson is one of those Hall of Fame boxers remembered as extraordinary, because he was ordinary. Both Harold and his boxing father, 22-17 New Jersey heavyweight Phil Johnson, uniquely both lost to Jersey Joe Walcott, who went […]
Remembering Italian Heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon, A Historical Look Back By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon of Italy hit the world rankings in the 1970s by opening his career 20-2-1, including beating Alfredo Evangelista, winning a rematch with Lucien Rodriguez, beating Brian O’Melia and drawing with Randy Stephens. Zanon […]
Ali-Liston II Boxing Gloves Auction of the Century By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali, previously known as Cassius Clay, retained the World Heavyweight title in Lewiston, Maine, with a controversial first round knockout over former champion Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston. Referee Jersey Joe Walcott blew […]
Whatever Happened To Rock Newman? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Rock Newman was best known as the manager of Riddick ‘Big Daddy’ Bowe, the Hallof Fame World Heavyweight champion on whose behalf Newman negotiated a potential revenue and compensation […]
Whatever Happened To Marvelous Marvin Hagler? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Marvelous Marvin Hagler was oonly the second famous fighter to train out of Brockton, Massachusetts, after Brockton’s native son Rocky Marciano. Hagler was a southpaw middleweight world champion. Hagler compiled a record of […]
Sonny Liston versus Old Mongoose Archie Moore Heavyweight Title Dream Fight By Robert Brizel, head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Here is an interesting historical matchup. Let su presume ‘The Old Mongoose’, Archie Moore, did not fight Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in November 1962, and instead Archie had continued to defend the NYSAC version […]
Mysterious Billy Smith, The Dirtiest Fighter Who Ever Lived By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent To have been world champion, in the highest historical sense, means a boxer has to have done some things right to get there. Not all boxers who reach a world title can stay there. Some […]
Rocky Marciano and Floyd Mayweather and the 120 Million Dollar Question By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Is Floyd Mayweather Jr. the greatest professional boxer of all-time? Better even than Rocky Marciano? The late Angelo Dundee answered such challenge questions with “Hypothetical questions like that leave me cold. In their time, […]
Ernie Terrell, WBA World Heavyweight Champion Who Fought Ali, Dies at 75 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Chicago, Il (December 20, 2014)– Ernie Terrell of Chicago, Illinois, who won the vacant World Boxing Association World Heavyweight title in March 1965 in Chicago with a 15 round decision over Eddie Machen, […]
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2015 inductee TORONTO/NEW YORK CITY (Dec. 4, 2014) – The International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) today announced its newest class of inductees, including former world lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini. Also being inducted into the IBHOF are Class of 2015 Living […]
Whatever Happened To The Jersey Jolter, Frankie De Paula? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxing fans tend to remember the great fighters, great fights and great moments in boxing. The late Hank Kaplan, who wrote Boxing Digest on his own for many years, was a walking encyclopedia of the fighters […]
RCM Historical Boxing: A Kaleidoscope of Boxing Sugars By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ramos, Sugar Ray Hammond, Sugar Ray Seales, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Shane Mosley, Bert Sugar, Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr. (Anthony Small), Sugar Shay (Ishe) Smith, and Suga (not Sugar) Rashad Evans. Of these Sugars, […]
Cassius Clay Dynamite By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Today he is known as Muhammad Ali AKA The Greatest, the retired former world heavyweight champion, and a man of few words. Long before that, in the era known as the 1960’s, he rose toprominence as a rhyming poet who called […]
The Life and Times of Duane Thomas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Detroit Kronk gym light middleweight Duane Thomas (1961-2000) is today just one of the many boxers of the past who have come and went and are completely forgottenin the winds of time. A World Boxing Council World Light […]
RCM Historical Boxing Light Heavyweight Beethaeven Scottland Remembered By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Undefeated George Khalid Jones, then 15-0, Paterson, New Jersey, was never supposed to fight Beethaeven Scottland. The intended opponent for his 10 round light heavyweight bout on June 26, 2001, on the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York […]
Andre The Giant versus Chuck Wepner: An RCM Historical Look Back By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxer versus wrestler on June 26,1976, and it was real. Chuck Wepner, The Bayonne Bleeder, who made it to the 15th round with Muhammad Ali, fought Andre the Giant, in a preliminary […]
Jack Johnson versus Frank Moran, World Heavyweight Title in Paris, June 1914 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent One hundred years ago, Jack Johnson, ‘The Galveston Giant’, made the last defense of his world heavyweight title, decisioning Frank Moran in 20 rounds in Paris, France, on June 27, 1914. The referee […]
NFL Heavyweight Boxer Chuck Powell Dies, Fought Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Charlie ‘Chuck’ Powell, perhaps the greatest all-around athlete ever to come out of San Diego, California, who was a star in the National Football League, and for a time a world ranked professional heavyweight boxer, […]
Trump Plaza to Close September 16, Remembering Roberto Duran Versus Barkley in 1991 By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent With additional commentary on the impact of the closure of the Atlantic City casino resorts NJTV News Trump Plaza Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qFwVu91yR8 Within the next 15 days, three Atlantic City Hotel Casinos are going to […]
Boxing Book Review World Exclusive: Tommy The Duke Morrison 1996-2006 My Darkest Years Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent With encouragement from Trisha ‘The Duchess’ Morrison, Real Combat Media presents an international exclusive, the first book review in a three part series of the writings of the late former […]
Bare Knuckles Boxing Movie Review: Hard Times Starring Charles Bronson, Historical Commentary by Ring Historian Henry Hascup By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Set in 1933 New Orleans, Louisiana during The Great Depression, the 1975 boxing film Hard Times stars the late movie tough guy Charles Bronson as a […]
Tommy Morrison: Successful Boxing To MMA Crossover Fighting Style By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent One angle boxing fans seemed to have missed regarding Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison is he was more than just your typical stereotyped Rocky movie tough guy. Tommy, was, in one strong sense, the successful barroom version of […]
Remembering Herbie Hyde, AKA The Dancing Destroyer By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Between 1989 and 2010, Herbie Hyde, a Nigerian Briton also known as ‘The Dancing Destroyer’ had a professional boxing record of 49-4 with 43 knockouts as a cruiserweight and heavyweight. Hyde is best known for winning the World Boxing Organization […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Remembering Avenamar Peralta By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Between 1965 and 1982, one of Argentina’s best light heavyweight boxers was Ramon Avenamar Peralta, who won 103 bouts, lost 32, and drew seven times, with 64 knockouts in the 149 contests he fought. Peralta was undefeated in his first 40 professional bouts. […]
Detached Retina Perspectives: RCM Historical Boxing Takes A Look At What It Means By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Professional boxers with eye injuries, in most cases, face the end of their careers almost immediately. George Kandelaki, Calvin Brock, Rick Folstad, Michael Olajide, Leotis Martin, Jeff Chandler, John Henry Lewis, Leotis […]
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