Ryan Garcia and Conor Benn had to be separated by security and Dana White during a heated first press conference for their September 12 WBC welterweight title fight.
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Diego Pacheco stopped Immanuwel Aleem in the 11th round Saturday night at Dignity Health Sports Park to retain his WBC Silver and WBO International super middleweight titles.
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UFC Oklahoma City Recap: Dricus Du Plessis Dominates Kamaru Usman in Triumphant Return By Real Combat Media MMA Editorial Staff Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, (July 18th, 2026)–The Octagon touched down in Oklahoma City for the first time in nearly a decade on Saturday, and Dricus Du Plessis made sure the milestone card ended with him […]
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Diego Pacheco vs. Immanuwel Aleem Preview: Undefeated Champion Puts Titles on the Line in Carson By Real Combat Media Boxing Editorial Staff Carson, California, USA, (July 18th, 2026)–Diego Pacheco defends his WBC Silver and WBO International super middleweight titles against Immanuwel Aleem on Saturday at Dignity Health Sports Park, live on DAZN as part of […]
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Abdullah Mason Stops Albert Bell To Defend Lightweight Crown Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington Defeats Rene Palacios To Retain Title CLICK HERE for Photos (Courtesy: Top Rank) CLEVELAND (July 4, 2026) — Abdullah Mason (21-0, 18 KOs) defended his WBO lightweight world title against Toledo native Albert Bell (28-1, 9 KOs) with a 12th-round TKO Saturday evening in front of a hometown […]
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Juan Domingo Roldan, Argentina’s Great Middleweight, Dies of Coronavirus at 63 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Buenos Aires, Argentina (November 24th, 2020)– Juan Domingo Roldan, AKA Martillo (Hammer), who succeeded the late Carlos Monzon as Argentina’s best middleweight and best-known fighter in the 1980s, died on November 18, 2020, of COVID-19 […]
Former World Super Welterweight Champ Miguel Castellini Dies of Coronavirus at 73 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Box Rec Buenos Aries, Argentina (October 29th, 2020)– From cutman Nelson Cuevas to referee Eddie Cotton, the professional boxing world continues to suffer losses during the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus time period. […]
e Robert Brizel Editorial: New Look Chris Byrd on Road to Middleweight Marijuana Paradise By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Chris Byrd and Marc Abrams Former International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization World Heavyweight champion Chris ‘Rapid Fire’ Byrd is back at age 50 as a middleweight! The southpaw […]
Boom Boom Alan Minter, Pride of Britain, World Middleweight Champion Dies at Age 69 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (September 12, 2020)– Former World Middleweight champion Alan “Boom Boom” Minter, the Pride of Great Britain, who scrapped his way through a hard-fought career to win the world middleweight […]
WBA Featherweight Champion Ernesto Marcel of Panama Dies at 72, Defeated Alexis Arguello By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (July 1st, 2020)– Retired World Boxing Association World Featherweight champion Ernesto Marcel has died in his native Panama City, Panama at age 72. Marcel compiled a career record of […]
Pete Rademacher Dies at 91, Olympic Gold Medalist Fought for Heavyweight Title in First Pro Bout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sandusky, Ohio (June 11th, 2020)– Pete Rademacher, the outgoing heavyweight who won the Chicago Golden Gloves, the All-Army championship, the All-Armed Forces Championship, and the 1956 Olympic Heavyweight Gold […]
From Boxing to Bicycles: The Marlon Thomas Story By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent 48 bout veteran Marlon ‘Trouble Man’ Thomas terrorized the lower weight classes between 1991 and 2014. Fighting out of Detroit, Michigan, Thomas compiled a professional record of 37-9-1 with 21 knockouts, and one No Contest. At […]
Noted Trainer, Ex-World Welterweight Champion Curtis Cokes, Dies in Dallas at 82 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Dallas, TX (June 2nd, 2020)– Former World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council World Welterweight champion Curtis Cokes, who fought in 80 professional bouts between 1958 and 1972, has died in his […]
Fight or Bite? Iron Mike Tyson Training For Comeback at 53 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (May 3rd, 2020)–From Jack Johnson to Jack Dempsey to Joe Louis, from George Foreman to Sonny Liston, from Smokin’ Joe Frazier toto Muhammad Ali to Wladimir Klitschko, many former heavyweight champions […]
Ex-World Middleweight Champion Michael Nunn Seeks Kickboxing Comeback At Age 57 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Davenport, Iowa (April 30th, 2020)– Former International Boxing Federation World Middleweight champion and World Boxing Association Super Middleweight champion Michael Nunn, 57, who was released from prison in April 2019 after serving 17 […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Rocky Marciano vs. Sonny Liston By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There have been fantasy tournaments, and dream matchups, but some matchup concepts have proven more popular than others. Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey, Larry Holmes and Jack Johnson are some of the stronger and more […]
Robert Brizel Editorial: Iron Mike Tyson vs. Muhammad Ali Would End in a 15 Round Draw By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In the recent heavyweight fantasy tournament, the only boxing tournament at the moment, put together by the World Boxing Super Series, Tyson defeated Ali in the final round to […]
South Central LA to Gold 1984 Olympic heavyweight champion Henry Tillman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (April 2, 2020) – Capturing an Olympic gold medal is special but overcoming tremendous odds and winning it at home, never mind meeting your future wife, made it extraordinarily special for 1984 Olympic heavyweight champion Henry Tillman. And beating Mike Tyson […]
Detroit’s Hedgemon Lewis, Golden Gloves and World Welterweight Champion, Dies at 74 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Greensboro, Alabama (April 2, 2020)– Detroit Michigan’s Hedgemon Lewis is a member of the California Boxing Hall of Fame as a fighter and trainer. The 1963 Detroit Diamond Belt amateur champion, National […]
Chegui! The Life and Times of World Light Heavyweight Champion Jose Torres By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Jose ‘Chegui’ Torres was born on May 3, 1936, in Playa, Ponce, Puerto Rico. He began boxing at 17 years old after he joined the United States Army in 1943 during World War […]
The Man From Down Under, IBO Heavyweight Champion Jimmy Thunder, Dies at 54, Held Record For World’s Fastest KO By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Auckland, New Zealand (February 13, 2020)–The ‘Man From Down Under’, former International Boxing Organization and World Boxing Federation World Heavyweight champion James ‘Jimmy Thunder’ Peau, a super […]
Actor Kirk Douglas Was A Big Fan of Rocky Marciano By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In 1970, the late Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas hosted a television documentary tribute to his friend, the late world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. Kirk Douglas met Rocky Marciano when he was in a Los […]
Five Decade Career of Super Lightweight Champion Saoul Mamby Ends at Age 72 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Brooklyn, NY (December 21, 2019)– The five decades career and boxing life of former world super lightweight champion Saoul Mamby, who was in the gym his entire life long after the spotlight […]
Ex-Champ Leon Spinks Battling Pneumonia in Intensive Care, Still Fighting For His Life By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (December 13th, 2019)– Former World Heavyweight champion ‘Neon’ Leon Spinks, 66, who defeated Muhammad Ali to win the lineal world heavyweight championship in 1978, remained hospitalized in Las […]
Heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks Hospitalized in Critical Condition in Las Vegas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former World Heavyweight champion ‘Neon’ Leon Spinks, 66, who shocked the boxing world by winning a 15 round split decision over Muhammad Ali on February 15, 1978, at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, […]
Grave Restored of Rev. Bendigo Thompson, Brobdingnagian Bare Knuckles Champion By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Photo Credit: Emma Percival Photo, Gedlingeye.co.uk In September of 2019, the grave of the former world bare-knuckles boxing champion was restored, a man from an era long before the rules of the Marquess de Queensberry. The […]
Jorge Luis Gonzalez Remembered, Trash Talk Pissed’Em Off Heavyweight Contender By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The ring has a history of pro boxers who, after fighting for a world title and not winning it, either abandoned their career or simply faded off the map due to various factors. Personal motivation […]
Hero, Heroin or Murder? Lives and Deaths of Sonny Liston Showtime Documentary By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent * Photo Credit: boxinghalloffame.com Pariah: The Lives and Deaths of Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston, an 89 minute documentary or shockumentary of the controversial life of the former world heavyweight champion (depending on how one interprets […]
Mike Tyson to Jack Dempsey Connection By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former world heavyweight champion Iron Mike Tyson is best known as a boxer, and for his colorful personality. Mike is lesser known for his proficiency with racing pigeons, and as an expert boxing historian who is a student […]
Errol Spence Jr. To Salvador Sanchez Connection: Robert Brizel Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Life in the fast lane. Some professional athletes think the speed ride never ends. The late World Boxing Council World Featherweight champion Salvador Sanchez crashed his Porsche 928 in a truck at 3:30 A.M. on […]
Would Joe Louis Would Have beaten Tyson Fury? A Critical Analysis. Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent With lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s upcoming bout with 20-0 unbeaten Swedish heavyweight prospect Otto Wallin coming up, this reporter suddenly considered an amazing subconscious riddle, Joe Louis, which Fury had already […]
La Mantequilla, WBC Welterweight Champion Jose Napoles of Mexico, Dies at 79 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Cuidad Juarez, Mexico (August 17th, 2019)– Jose ‘La Mantequilla’ Napoles, the longtime World Boxing Council World Welterweight champion who fought between 1958 and 1975 with a ring record of 81 wins and seven losses, […]
Estate of Tommy Morrison Nevada Lawsuit Begins Again vs. NSAC and Quest Diagnostics By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Al Bello/ALLSPORT Las Vegas, NV (August 15th, 2019)– It has been learned on August 5, 2019, administratrix Patricia Harding Morrison (widow) for the estate of the late World Heavyweight champion […]
European Middleweight Champ Jean-Claude Bouttier Dies at 74, Fought Monzon Twice By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Agence Presse-France Photo Former European Middleweight champion Jean-Claude Bouttier, who fought the legendary Carlos Monzon for the World Middleweight title twice, and who beat the likes of Emile Griffith, Jose Chirino, Juarez De […]
Fights We Cannot Imagine Ever Taking Place By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Number One: Floyd Patterson versus Rocky Marciano, George Foreman or Joe Frazier If instead of rematching Ali, Patterson instead fought Big George Foreman in an attempt to regain the world heavyweight title, it would have ended as quick as […]
Historical Look Back – Michael Spinks vs. David Sears Light Heavyweight Title Battle By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Not just a reporter, this reporter enjoys a marvelous collection of old VHS VCR videotapes, which I enjoy and relax to watching each evening before sleep. Within my collection, last night, I found […]
The Deal is Sealed! Main Events Inks Promotional Deal with Evan Holyfield Evan Holyfield Photo Credit: Hosanna Rull/Main Events Houston, TX: Today in front of a packed crowd of family, friends and fans, at the Fighter Nation Boxing Gym in Houston, Texas, hot boxing prospect Evan Holyfield announced his new promotional deal with Main Events. After talks […]
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