Efe Ajagba Headlines Zuffa Boxing 3 Paramount + Eight Bouts Sunday Card at Meta Apex Las Vegas Sign up to Paramount+ to see this Fight! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (February 11th, 2026)– Zuffa Boxing 3 and Paramount + will present an eight-bout card of professional boxing on […]
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2026 USA Boxing Elite High Performance Women’s Team and Squad Rosters Announced Fifteen Boxers Named to the USA Boxing Elite High Performance Team and Squad Rosters COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (February 9, 2026) – The 2026 USA Boxing Women’s Elite High Performance Team and Squad rosters have been announced following the conclusion of the 2026 Elite High […]
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UFC VEGAS 113 RESULTS, VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS, POST PRESSER & SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION SIGN UP TO PARAMOUNT+ TO WATCH UFC & BOXING EVENTS Las Vegas, NV (February 8th, 2026)– UFC Fight Night: Bautista vs. Oliveira took place on Saturday, February 7, 2026, at the Meta Apex in Las Vegas. In the main event, #9 Mario Bautista, […]
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Ramazan Kuramagomedov leaves Dubai with gold over his shoulder, capturing the inaugural PFL Welterweight World Championship with a unanimous decision victory over Shamil Musaev MEDIA ASSETS DUBAI (FEBRUARY 7, 2026) – One champion retained his PFL title, and another claimed championship gold as PFL Road to Dubai concluded Saturday at the Coca-Cola Arena, ushering in a new […]
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Heartbreaker! Brandon Figueroa Decks Nick Ball Twice in Round 12 and Wins WBA World Featherweight Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent SIGN UP TO DAZN TO SEE THIS FIGHT! Liverpool, UK (February 8th, 2026)– In an upset, Brandon ‘Heartbreaker’ Figueroa, having won the bout on two scorecards entering round 12, scored […]
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Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons Turns 150, Remembering The Great Champion RCM Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent The Hall of Fame World Heavyweight champion Bob ‘Ruby Robert’ Fitzsimmons turned 150 on May 26, 2013. Bob died on October 22, 1917, at the age of 54. Bob debuted with a four […]
Irish Jerry Quarry, A Historical Remembrance By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM Historical Boxing Jerry Quarry was the all-American boy, acceptable to the white establishment, not quite a ‘Great White Hope’, but probably regarded as the next best thing in his time. In his time, Jerry was very popular and well-liked by the […]
Kind Words For Don Dunphy and Microphone Magic By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Don Dunphy was, is and will always be one of professional boxing’s great commentators. For over 40 years, from Joe Louis to Muhammad Ali, Dunphy’s voice into the microphone was magic. Don was boxing’s international spokesperson, a role model […]
Archie Moore versus Rocky Marciano-A Critical Analysis of Rounds One and Two By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Henry Armstrong, Ray Robinson, Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore were among those blacks who were victims of the prejudice of the times. The boxing establishment of long ago did not […]
Silliest Ring Event in History: Rocky Marciano Versus Bob Hope, Bing as Referee RCM Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Not every exhibition by Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis is documented, as there were too many to count. Perhaps the second silliest ring event was […]
Great New Rocky Marciano Black and White Highlight Clips Now on YouTube By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Hey heavyweight boxing fight fans! There’s a great black and white boxing clip on YouTube which has the best of the best footage on Rocky Marciano from the fight years 1955 and previous. The clip contains […]
Juan Laporte in Twilight, The Man With The Granite Chin RCM Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent During a break in the action at Resorts World Casino Aqueduct Raceway on the evening of May 4, 2013, what a fine gentleman I walked into than former World Boxing Council World Featherweight champion […]
A Tale of Two Floyds, Why Floyd Mayweather Jr. Will Knock Out Guerrero By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (May 2nd, 2013)– Here is a tale of two Floyds. Yes indeed, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to knock out Robert ‘Ghost’ Guerrero. Here is the framework for the probable […]
RCM Historical Boxing I’ll Moide De Bum! Two Ton Tony Galento’s Magic Moment By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent He stood 5’9″, and fought his heavyweight boxing career between 183 pounds and 244 pounds. When his weight was on the heavier side, he acquired the nickname ‘Two Ton’, a beer barrel that moved, […]
An Original Rocky: The Fall and Rise of Rocky Lockridge RCM Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent An original Rocky, Ricky ‘Rocky’ Lockridge was the National AAU Bantamweight champion, and a finalist at bantamweight in the National Golden Gloves. Lockridge came into boxing as a member of the […]
Chuck Wepner is The Real Rocky Balboa RCM HISTORICAL BOXING By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Chuck Wepner, the little big man known as ‘The Bayonne Bleeder’, Wepner compiled a career record of 35-14-2 with 17 knockouts during his career as a professional from 1964 to 1978. Win some and lose some. Wepner paid […]
Harry Greb, The Pittsburgh Windmill of Boxing Legend RCM HISTORICAL BOXING By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Harry Greb has been gone for 86 years. Despite that, his name has survived the test of boxing time. Born Edward Henry Greb in 1894, died in 1926, the 32 year old middleweight Greb was a […]
The Strange Boxing Case of Bob Hazelton, Boxing’s First Steroids Victim By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM BOXING HISTORICAL ARTICLE Tall London heavyweight Bob Hazelton, who fought professionally as a boxer from 1966 to 1980, and then went on to become a weightlifter and bodybuilder, was truly boxing’s first victim of anabolic […]
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Young? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM Historical Boxing Smokin’ Joe Frazier is not the only Philly boxer of note buried in Philadelphia. A quiet tombstone in Mount Peace Cemetery shows an inscribed face with boxing gloves on both sides of the face. As time fades the […]
Boxing’s Ghetto Wizard, Benny Leonard By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSxreC59N9c New York, NY( March 25th, 2013)– In This Corner, Benny Leonard, ESPN six minute career highlight film on YouTube Benny Leonard, ‘The Ghetto Wizard’ ranks eighth in Ring’s Magazine’s list if the 80 best fighters of the past 80 years, […]
Mike Rossman’s Shining Moment By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Though his real name is Michael Albert De Piano, he was known to the world as light heavyweight boxer Mike Rossman. Rossman debuted on August 10, 1972, with a second round knockout of Stanley Dawson in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A […]
Sugar Ray Seales Can See The Light By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (March 19th, 2013)–Every once in a while, boxing fans hear about the stellar career of Hall of Fame World Middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson. They talk about the sensational high profile career of Sugar Ray Leonard. They […]
Emile Griffith, Benny Kid Paret Jr., and The End of The Ring of Fire By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media correspondent Pugilistica Dementia, Parkinson’s, Gout, Arthritis and Diabetes are some of the conditions affected the now mentally and physically declining former World Welterweight, Light Middleweight and Middleweight champion of the world, […]
Speaking of The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent The late Bert Sugar and Teddy Atlas teamed with Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Iran Barkley, Ruben Olivares, Thomas Hearns and others to write ‘The Ultimate Book of Boxing Lists’ which was published in 2010 by Running Press. […]
When Bobby Czyz Was King By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (March 14, 2013)– When Bobby Czyz was world light heavyweight champion, it was a different era. Czyz turned pro in April 1980 and won 20 consecutive bouts before losing a ten rounder to middleweight […]
Young Stribling, The Champion Who Never Was By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent They called him the ‘King of the Canebrakes’, a strange nickname which would be the equivalent of ‘The Executioner’ today. Born on December 26, 1904, in Bainbridge, Georgia, William Lawrence Stribling Jr. AKA Young Stribling, was only 28 years […]
Carlos Ortiz, A Champion For All Seasons By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York. NY ( March 8th, 2013)– Former World Lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz of Puerto Rico, now in New York City, is largely forgotten now at age 76. The International and World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee occasionally surfaces at […]
Ike Ibeabuchi Faces Fifth Parole Hearing in May 2013 By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Ikemefula ‘The President’ Ibeabuchi, 40, will face his fifth parole hearing in Nevada on May 14, 2013. Ibeabuchi, a highly ranked heavyweight contender with a record of 20-0, with 15 knockouts, was sentenced in 1999 to two to […]
James Butler, Richard Grant, and The Infamous Sucker Punch By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent The Most Famous In The Ring Cheap Shot in the History of Professional Boxing James Butler sucker punches Richard Grant boxing clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Jz0HNgoII Light Heavyweight boxer Richard ‘The Alien’ Grant remains world famous for what he […]
The Amazing Battling Siki By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (March 1st, 2013)– Colorful he was, yet Battling Siki has never been inducted into either of the professional boxing halls of fame. He was born Louis Mbarick Fall in the African nation of Senegal on September 16, 1897. He would […]
Nate Tubbs Interview: On Corrie Sanders, Nelson Mandela, Pistorius, and More By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent In a Real Combat Media international exclusive, former heavyweight contender Nate Tubbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of only two American heavyweights to have won big fights in South Africa, spoke out of his experiences there, and […]
IBF Champion Buster Drayton Is Laughing Out Loud By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Philadelphia, PA (February 19th, 2013)–Buster Drayton is laughing out loud. I am sure this is the first time you have heard the express LOL, which means laughing out loud, applied to a pastor present boxing champion. Drayton, from South […]
Referee Alfredo Asaro and The Thriller in London By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Atlantic City, NJ (February 17, 2013)–While many boxing writers have looked at the overall outcome of ‘The Big fight’, the Nigel Benn versus Gerald McClellan World Boxing Council Super Middleweight title bout in 1995, and the resulting tragic brain injury […]
Say A Prayer For Chico Corrales By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Las Vegas, Nevada (February 14th, 2013)–At Palm Memorial Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, actor Tony Curtis, comedian Redd Foxx, entertainer Danny Gans, Wimbledon tennis champion Pancho Gonzales, and and World Series of Poker champion Stu Ungar share their final resting ground with […]
Arturo Gatti and Siviwe Ntsiko Shall Not Be Forgotten By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media New York (February 12,2013)–Siviwe Ntsiko of South Africa and Arturo ‘Thunder’ Gatti of Montreal, Canada, never knew each other. Two years after Gatti’s final bout with Alfonzo Lopez, he was found with bloodstains on his neck and […]
Gerald G-Man McClellan: His Sister Lisa Speaks On His Condition By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Freeport, IL (February 11, 2013)– In an exclusive interview with Real Combat Media for Illinois, Lisa McClellan, the younger sister of former WBC and WBO World Middleweight champion Gerald ‘ The G-Man’ McClellan, provided a status update of […]
Adama Interview: Golovkin is Afraid of Me! By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Middleweight contender Osumanu Adama of Accra, Ghana, in an exclusive interview with Real Combat Media, discussed his upcoming fight plans. Adama, now fighting out of Joliet, Illinois, will return to the ring in a tune up bout in Lowell, Massachusetts, […]
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