UFC 250 FREEDOM RESULTS, VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS, SOCIAL MEDIA REACTION & POST-PRESSER Sign up to Paramount + to Watch History! Washington, DC (June 15th, 2026)– Justin Gaethje shocked everyone at UFC Freedom 250 by beating 6-to-1 favorite Ilia Topuria with a fourth-round TKO (corner stoppage). The fight, held on the White House South Lawn, saw Gaethje […]
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UFC 250 FREEDOM CARD HISTORICAL WEIGH-IN, PRESS CONFERENCE, PREVIEW SHOW, BETTING ODDS, & HOW TO WATCH! Sign up to Paramount + to Watch History! Washington, DC (June 14th, 2026)– UFC Freedom 250 is a historic, unique seven–fight card taking place on Sunday, June 14, 2026, broadcasting live from the South Lawn of the White House. […]
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ZUFFA BOXING 7 RESULTS & VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS Bournemouth, England (June 8th, 2027)– At Zuffa Boxing in Bournemouth, England, former cruiserweight world champion Chris Billam-Smith defeated Ryan Rozicki by a seventh-round technical knockout by corner retirement in the main event. Main card Cruiserweight: Chris Billam-Smith def. Ryan Rozicki via seventh-round TKO (corner stoppage) Cruiserweight: Cheavon Clarke […]
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GLENDALE, AZ FIGHT WEEK: OFFICIAL WEIGH-IN RESULTS, PICTURES AND FIGHT NIGHT RUNNING ORDER FOR BAM VS VARGAS – LIVE ON DAZN GLENDALE, AZ FIGHT WEEK PHOTOS: Free for Editorial usage; Credit: Matchroom Boxing – DOWNLOAD HERE If prompted, please enter this password: RodriguezVargas2026 Sign up to DAZN to see this Fight! WATCH: Friday’s Weigh-In […]
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UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim Results & Video Highlights Las Vegas, NV (June 13th, 2026)– In the most recent major event at UFC Fight Night: Muhammad vs. Bonfim, rising contender Gabriel Bonfim defeated former champion Belal Muhammad via a dominant unanimous decision (50-45 x3). Main Card Gabriel Bonfim def. Belal Muhammad via unanimous decision […]
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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 […]
A Critical Analysis of Rematches Won and Lost by Roberto Duran By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Esteban DeJesus, Edwin Viruet, Pat Lawlor and Jorge Castro were later career rematches Panama’s “The Hands of Stone” Roberto Duran won. Sugar Ray Leonard (bout three), Vinnie Paz (Pazienza) and Hector Camacho were rematches Roberto […]
Ex-World Champ Chris Eubank Mugged in London By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK(October 16th, 2021)– The whole world knows parts of Mexico are not as safe as they used to be. Still, it was a major shock in July 2019 when muggers had the audacity in Mexico City to rob […]
Missing From Boxing Press For Decades, Top Super Lightweight Steve Hearon is Located By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent From Carlos Monzon to Clifford Etienne to James Page, some highly regarded boxers inside the ring, in life emerge outside the ring as nonfunctional in society in the long run. Such is […]
The Boston Bomber Tony DeMarco, Italian World Welterweight Champion, Dies at 89 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boston, MA (October 14th, 2021)– The boxing world has lost an all-time. Hall of Fame great in Italian Paddy DeMarco. Former World Welterweight champion Italian Tony “The Boston Bomber” DeMarco, also known as Leonardo […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Audley Harrison, TBI and the 2015 Comeback Which Never Was By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sydney Olympic Games 2000 Super Heavyweight Gold Medalist Audley Harrison, training for a final comeback attempt in 2015 after two years out of the ring, retired for good due to the effects of […]
A Tribute to Pascual Perez, Argentina’s 4’11” Boxing Giant By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent A native of Mendoza Argentina, Pascual Perez won a gold medal boxing at the 1948 London Olympics in the first post-World War II Olympic Games. A hero in Argentina, between 1952 and 1964, Perez had a professional […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Lloyd Honeyghan vs. Donald “Cobra” Curry By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Real Combat Media historical boxing often looks at great fights and crossroads fights. When Lloyd Honeyghan met Donald Curry on September 26, 1986, at Caesars Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Showtime, Donald […]
It Wasn’t! Brizel Editorial Response to Boxing 24 7 Calling Tyson KO of Seldon a Dive Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Rapper Tupac Shakur was in attendance, and got gunned down after leaving the brief bot at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada, […]
Biggest Money Boxing Events in History There is no doubt that boxing has long been a sport that has managed to attract an eye-watering amount of money, but some fights have really set the bar even higher still. This has happened in a big way with the rise of celebrity boxing matches from the likes […]
Real Combat Media Historical Boxing: Tale of Boxing Tigers By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent BoxRec currently lists 20 active boxers using the last name of Tiger, and 21 boxers using the nickname of Tiger. All of the current boxing Tigers are not noteworthy. However, in the professional boxing past, there were […]
Robert Brizel Editorial: Larry Holmes and His Amazing Heavyweight Statistics Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Larry Holmes of Easton, Pennsylvania, the former World Boxing Council World Heavyweight champion known as the “The Easton Assassin”, holds two unique professional boxing statistics which will likely […]
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