JAKE PAUL VS. JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ JR. PRESS CONFERENCE & THE RETURN OF HOLLY HOLM Sign up to DAZN to Watch this Fight! Los Angeles, CA (May 15th, 2025)– Jake Paul (11-1, 7 KOs) will take the next step to becoming a world champion when he faces former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. […]
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PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTES AND PHOTOS EDGAR BERLANGA VS. HAMZAH SHEERAZ AND SHAKUR STEVENSON VS. WILLIAM ZEPEDA Click HERE for Photos; Courtesy of Golden Boy Promotions Click HERE To Watch the Press Conference on the DAZN YouTube Channel Sign up to DAZN to Watch this Fight! NEW YORK, NY – May 15, 2025 – To kick off the massive Ring […]
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FORMER TEAMMATES AND BELLATOR BANTAMWEIGHT CHAMPIONS SERGIO PETTIS AND RAUFEON STOTS SET TO CLASH ON JUNE 27 IN CHICAGO Heavyweight, Light Heavyweight & Middleweight World Tournament Semifinals Set Undefeated Biaggio Ali Walsh Returns to Action Sign up to DAZN to Watch this Fight! NEW YORK – May 15, 2025 –The Professional Fighters League today announced a stacked […]
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Betting Odds Has Manny Pacquiao As a Huge Underdog As He Returns at Age 46 to Challenge Mario Barrios for a World Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (May 14th, 2025)– Manny Pacquiao, invoking a World Boxing Council Emeritus Championship rule, which allows a retired former champion to […]
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CALEB PLANT LAS VEGAS MEDIA WORKOUT QUOTES & PHOTOS Also Featuring Kyrone Davis & Isaac Lucero Caleb Plant vs. Armando Reséndiz & Jermall Charlo vs. Thomas LaManna Co-Headline Stacked Four-Fight PBC Championship Boxing on Prime Video Lineup Saturday, May 31 from Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas Streaming Exclusively on Prime […]
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Land of the Heavyweight Giants By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, the ‘Galveston Giant’ was shorter than the man who dethroned him in Havana, Cuba, Jess Willard. The Klitschkos, Lennox Lewis, Nikolai Valuev, Primo Carnera, and Mike White are some historical examples of the tall […]
Tony Who? Olympic Bronze Medalist Tony Madigan Dies, Fought Muhammad Ali Twice By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There exists a short list of boxers who fought Muhammad Ali more than once in the amateurs and as a professional. Henry Cooper. George Chuvalo, Joe Frazier, Jerry Quarry, Floyd Patterson, Joe Bugner, […]
When Boxing Was King By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sportswriter Robert Brizel’s education with boxing history today centers around boxing’s most famous emotional ‘relationship’, good, indifferent or otherwise. Muhammad Ali and Smokin’ Joe Frazier are no longer with us. Many other famous heavyweight names have slipped into the […]
George Chuvalo to Malcolm X to Muhammad Ali Connection: Dark Side of the Moon By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s George Chuvalo on Sonny Liston taking a dive On May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine, Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston took a dive in the first round of his rematch […]
Evander Holyfield, The Hardest Working Heavyweight Champion Ever By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media When one looks at the all-time heavyweight champions list, one finds such familiar names as Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, George Foreman, Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, […]
Heavyweight Contender Roy Harris, Barefoot Boxer From Cut and Shoot Texas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Four time Texas State Golden Gloves champion Roy Harris won the Texas Olympic Trials in 1952, and later won the Texas State and Southern Heavyweight titles as a professional. A four year […]
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 […]
A Historical Look Back at Sonny Liston versus Floyd Patterson II By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston made the lone defense of his World Heavyweight title on July 22, 1963, at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Though Sonny’s appearance was brief to say the least, Liston’s world title […]
Archie Moore, A Critical Analysis of The 23 Losses of The Old Mongoose By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Between 1935 and 1963, The Old Mongoose, Archie Moore, won 185 fights, lost 23 bouts, and drew 10 bouts, with 131 knockouts. Archie was stopped only seven times. The great light heavyweight champion […]
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 […]
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 […]
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