KAMBOSOS JR DEMANDS HITCHINS WORLD TITLE SHOT NEXT AFTER WEATHERING WYLLIE STORM IN SYDNEY New WBC World Champion Tiara Brown stuns Skye Nicolson as Cherneka Johnson defeats Nina Hughes and Teremoana Jr shines at the Qudos Bank Arena George Kambosos Jr overcame a troublesome cut to defeat dangerous underdog Jake ‘The Machine’ Wyllie and put IBF World Super-Lightweight Champion […]
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Brian Arregui Upsets Vlad Panin, Justin Figueroa Stops Rios in Atlantic City, NJ By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent – Ringside *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Atlantic, City (March 26th, 2025)– In the co-main event of a Boxing Insider six-bout card at The Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, […]
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WBA World Lightweight Champion Livingston Bramble Dies at 64 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (March 24th, 2025)– Former World Boxing Association World Lightweight champion Livingston Bramble, also known as Ras-l Alujah Bramble, whose Rastafarian vegetarian beliefs, voodoo dolls, love of snakes, and two successful HBO titular wins over […]
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UNIFIED WBC & WBO 154-POUND WORLD CHAMPION SEBASTIAN FUNDORA DEFENDS TITLES WITH FOURTH-ROUND STOPPAGE OF CHORDALE BOOKER IN PBC CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING ON PRIME VIDEO MAIN EVENT SATURDAY NIGHT Jesus Ramos Jr. & Elijah Garcia Score Victories in Undercard Action at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Click HERE for Photos from Ryan Hafey/ Premier Boxing […]
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UFC FIGHT NIGHT LONDON WEIGH-IN & BETTING ODDS Check the complete UFC London weigh-in results below. Main Card (ESPN+ at 4 p.m. ET) Leon Edwards (171) vs. Sean Brady (170) Jan Blachowicz (205) vs. Carlos Ulberg (205) Kevin Holland (171) vs. Gunnar Nelson (170) Molly McCann (116) vs. Alexia Thainara (116) Chris Duncan (155) vs. Jordan Vucenic (155) Morgan Charriere (145) vs. Nathaniel Wood (145) Preliminary Card (ESPN+ at […]
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European Heavyweight Champion Jürgen Blin Dies at 79, Fought Muhammad Ali in 1971 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hamburg, Germany (May 9th,2022)– Former European Heavyweight champion Jurgen Blin of Germany, who fought Joe Bugner twice, Muhammad Ali, won the European Heavyweight championship after fighting Ali, and fought his last bout […]
ZAB JUDAH AND ERROL SPENCE JR. VIRTUAL PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES WBC and IBF Welterweight Champion Spence Jr. Joined by Last Undisputed Welterweight Champion Judah For Conversation Previewing Showdown Against Yordenis Ugas Spence Meets WBA Champion Ugas for Welterweight Title Unification Showdown Live on SHOWTIME PPV Saturday, April 16 in Premier Boxing Champions Event From AT&T […]
Five Suspects Are Arrested in Murder of Hector “Macho” Camacho Ten Years Later By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Bayamon, Puerto Rico (March 11th, 2022)– Ten years after the murder of colorful boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, in 2012, five men have been arrested and charged with the […]
Heavyweight Ron Stander, The Bluffs Butcher, Dies of Diabetes at 77, Fought Smokin’ Joe Frazier for World Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former heavyweight contender Ron Stander, “The Bluffs Butcher”, who fought Smokin’ Joe Frazier for the world heavyweight title in 1972, and also fought Ken Norton, Scott LeDeux, Gerrie […]
Ex-Muay Thai and WBA Flyweight Champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai Dies at 77 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Bangkok, Thailand (March 8th, 2022)– Former Muay Thai champion and World Boxing Association World Flyweight champion Berkrerk Chartvanchai, also known as Tinapong Hantanakul and Berkrerk Lookyodfah, has died in his native Bangkok, Thailand. Chartvanchai […]
Middleweight Contender Gangster Hurricane Eddie Melo and the Canadian Mafia By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late Canadian middleweight and light heavyweight contender and veteran gangster Eduardo Manuel Deus “Eddie The Hurricane” Melo was born in Portugal, and raised in Toronto, Canada. Fighting between 1978 and 1986, Melo’s career record […]
Without The Smoke: Last Philadelphia Days of The Late Heavyweight Champion Smokin’ Joe Frazier and Career Reflections By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In Joe Frazier’s final years, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, without his usual lifelong colorful personality of emotional “Smoke”, suffered from type 2 diabetes, a diseased liver, and underwent surgery for […]
Legend of Roccia del Piave, Italian Heavyweight Giuseppe Ros, Olympic Bronze Medalist, Dies at 79 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Susegana, Italy (February 18th, 2022)– Known as “The Legend of The Rocce del Piave”, sixty bout Italian heavyweight boxing veteran Giuseppe “Bebi” Ros, Italian Heavyweight Military amateur champion in 1963, who […]
Crazy Eddie Machen, 1960s Heavyweight Contender of Mystery By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent He was known as “The Black Gene Tunney” as his fighting style most closely resembled the undefeated legendary world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, who beat Jack Dempsey twice. “Crazy’ Eddie Machen, the 1960s heavyweight champion of mystery, probably […]
The Strange Case of Heavyweight Marvis “Little Smoke” Frazier, Son of Smokin’ Joe By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Everybody knows the late former World Heavyweight Champion Smokin’ Joe Frazier and his green boxing trunks. Joe, who won the battle of undefeated heavyweight champions when he dropped and decisioned Muhammad Ali at […]
From Juarez to LA to Hoboken: Tragedy of National AAU Champion Isidro Gino Perez By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Nearly 30 years ago, now long forgotten, a televised boxing bout lead to a rare double tragedy. In professional boxing, tragedies tend to get swept under the rug. This is the story […]
Happy 73rd Birthday to Former Heavyweight Champion Big George Foreman! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent A native of Marshall, Texas, former world heavyweight champion “Big’ George Foreman, who turned age 73 on January 10, 2022, has been out of the ring since 1997. Foreman, 76-5 with 66 knockouts, is best known for […]
Greatest Hits of Earnie Shavers, The Black Destroyer By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Great heavyweights have their moment in the sun. Between 1969 and 1995, Earnie Shavers terrorized the heavyweight division, including torturing World Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali for 15 rounds with punches which would have woken the dead. Generally regarded […]
Riddle of The One-Eyed Boxers: Greb, Frazier, Harris and Seales In The Modern Era By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxers with eye injuries are a sensitive subject. It remains a safety danger for boxers to fight with eye injuries. When a fight incurs a detached retina, in boxing history that […]
Referee Tony Perez Dies at 90, Man in Middle of Luis Resto-Billy Collins Jr. Controversy By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Barnegat, NJ (December 23rd, 2021)– Five decades boxing referee Anibal “Tony” Perez, of Barnegat Township, New Jersey, who between 1968 and 2005 remained one of the best referees in the world, […]
Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano, Who Never Fought in a Casino By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There are many things that can be said about the late World Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano of Brockton, Massachusetts, whose career record of 49-0 in the heavyweight division remains unsurpassed. Ex-champion Larry Holmes of Easton, […]
Bagrat Oghanian, Armenian Bronze Medalist at 2000 Europe Championship, Dies at 40 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (December 2oth, 2021)– Bagrat Oghanian, of Gyumri, Armenia, best known for winning the super heavyweight bronze medal in the 200 European Amateur Boxing Championships held at Tampere, Finland, has died at […]
Gerald McClellan Jr. RCM Interview: Wins Pro Debut By TKO, Dad To Get Stem Cell Treatment By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a Real Combat Media international exclusive, southpaw light heavyweight Gerald McClellan Jr., of Beloit, Wisconsin, son of former World Middleweight champion Gerald McClellan, after winning his pro debut at […]
Who Did It? Revisiting Unsolved Murder of Hector Macho Camacho A Decade Later By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hector “Macho” Camacho was an unsolved personality when he was alive. The murder of Hector “Macho” Camacho remains an unsolved mystery with no arrests made. Camacho and childhood friend Adrian Mojica Moreno, […]
Abandoned Little Boy of Philly, Matthew Saad Muhammad’s Greatest Hits By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late former World Boxing Council World Light Heavyweight champion Matthew Saad Muhammad (1954-2014), born, abandoned as an orphan, found, raised and died in the Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. His mother died when he […]
Remembering Lemuel Steeples, 1979 U.S. Team Plane Crash, Champion Who Never Was By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The United States National team crashed landed in Warsaw, Poland, on March 14, 1980. Blinding sunlight, according to one veteran Polish airplane pilot, had obscured the light bulb on the landing gear button, […]
Bob Arum Turns 90: 2,119 Fight Cards and Counting Arum will promote the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Richard Commey lightweight battle Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden (ESPN & ESPN Deportes, 9 p.m. ET) NEW YORK (Dec. 8, 2021) — Top Rank chairman Bob Arum has hit yet another milestone. Arum, the Brooklyn-born one-time federal prosecutor whose boxing career […]
Tragedy! Son of Hall of Fame Boxer Erik Morales, Fernando Morales, Dies At Age 23 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Tijuana, Mexico (December 2nd, 2021)– Fernando Morales, the second son of Hall of Fame boxer Erik “Terrible” Morales, has died at age 23. The death was announced on social media. No […]
Robert Brizel Editorial: Forgotten Art of The 15th Round Knockout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent With the reduction of boxing world championship bout rounds limit from 15 to 12 rounds, the art of the fifteenth round knockout has been lost. So far as the heavyweight division is concerned, Muhammad Ali and […]
A Friendship Etched in Stone: Muhammad Ali and Tunney Hunsaker Part II By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, fought his first professional bout in Louisville, Kentucky, winning a six-round decision over Sheriff Tunney Hunsaker. Ali would go on to become the three-time heavyweight champion of the world. […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Police Chief Tunney Hunsaker, Muhammad Ali’s Worst Fight By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late former three-times world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, then Cassius Clay, in view of this reporter fought his worst professional fight on October 29, 1960, in Freedom Hall Louisville, Kentucky, when he fought his […]
Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez Remains One of Boxing’s All-Time Greats By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent What a thrill it was for this reporter in October 2021 to meet all-time boxing great Alvaro “Yaqui” Lopez in Detroit, Michigan, where his hard-working middleweight prospect Fernando Hernandez fought to a four-round draw with Michigan’s Matthew […]
Hagler vs. Briscoe, 1978 Battle of The Baldies: Real Combat Media Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late Marvelous Marvin Hagler, then age 24, a middleweight prospect on the rise, was on the way up towards becoming world middleweight champion when he faced Philadelphia’s late “Bad” Bennie Briscoe, age […]
Historical Boxing Tale of the Four Sugar Rays By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxing is called “The Sweet Science” by many. While many boxers have used the nickname “Sugar” From Sugar Shane Mosley to Ultimo Sugar Ramos Zaquiera, and that is a story written and rewritten by many boxing historians […]
Whatever Happened to Ex-Champ Billy Costello? The Later Years By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Very few former boxing veterans, contenders and champions seroconvert into ringside officials, judges and referees. From Barney Ross to Carlos DeLeon to Randy Neumann, some do. Some try it, however overall it is a rare switch. The […]
Canadian Light Heavyweight Champ Gary Summerhays, Brave Road Warrior, Dies at 71 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Ontario, Canada (October 22, 2021)– Former Canadian and Commonwealth British Empire Light-Heavyweight boxing champion Gary Summerhays, a boxing legend in his native Brantford, Ontario, Canada, has passed away in his native Brantford at age […]
NABF Belt is Great Title, From Don King and Ali, to Bobby Hitz and Taylor Duerr By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Staying in 1969 in the heavyweight division in the United States, the North American Boxing Federation (NABF) belt became a prominent title and springboard to establishing top contenders as being […]
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