A HISTORIC NIGHT FOR MMA IN BELFAST COMES TO A CLOSE AS PAUL HUGHES FINISHES HIS OPPONENT IN LESS THAN A MINUTE FOLLOWING PFL EUROPE BELFAST WIN Paul “Big News” Hughes puts a stamp on an historic night of MMA in Belfast as he sends the crowd wild after finishing Bruno “Robusto” Miranda in 42 […]
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Weigh-In Results: Emanuel Navarrete vs. Charly Suarez TOMORROW at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT LIVE on ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+ Pechanga Arena San Diego • CLICK HERE for PHOTOS Mandatory Credit: Mikey Williams/Top Rank • CLICK HERE for VIDEO Credit: Top Rank (ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) • Emanuel Navarrete 130 lbs. vs. Charly Suarez 129.9 lbs (Navarrete’s WBO Junior Lightweight World Title – […]
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UFC 315 WEIGH-IN, BETTING ODDS, COUNTDOWN & PRESS CONFERENCE 10 p.m. ET: ESPN+ PPV Main Card 8 p.m.: Prelims (ESPN+, ESPN, ESPN Deportes, Disney+* & SiriusXM Fight Nation 156) 6:30 p.m.: Early Prelims (ESPN+, ESPN**, ESPN Deportes, Disney+ & SiriusXM Fight Nation 156) UFC 315: Muhammad vs. Della Maddalena – GET NOW Order UFC 315 […]
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PFL ANNOUNCES FULL CARD FOR 2025 WORLD TOURNAMENT SEMIFINALS IN NASHVILLE ON JUNE 12 Former Bellator Champion Jason Jackson Faces Undefeated Thad Jean in Welterweight Semifinal Main Event Peru’s Jesus Pinedo Meets Brazil’s Gabriel Braga in Featherweight Semifinal Trilogy Bout Welterweights Logan Storley and Masayuki Kikuiri Will Also Face Off, While Movlid Khaybulaev Meets South […]
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2025 PFL EUROPE BELFAST COMPLETE WEIGH-IN RESULTS & PHOTOS 2025 PFL Europe Belfast takes place at The SSE Arena on Saturday 10th May available to watch in the UK & Ireland exclusively on DAZN from 5pm Paul Hughes & Bruno Miranda make the main event official by weighing in at 156.0 lbs and 153.1 lbs […]
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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 […]
Jack Bodell Dies at 76, European Heavyweight Champ Who Lost to Jerry Quarry By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (November 12th, 2016)– Former British and European heavyweight champion Jack Bodell, ‘The Swadlincote Swineheard’, who got blown away in 64 seconds by Jerry Quarry in his most important ‘test’, […]
Ode To Heavyweight Jerry Quarry: A Historical Look Back at His Ill-Fated Comeback By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Every once and awhile, boxing experts remember the likeable Irish Jerry Quarry. He was the original ‘Great White hope’, and probably the best of the best who did not beat Muhammad Ali, […]
Paul Williams at 32: His Fate is in The Hands of The Gods By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On July 27, 2013, Paul (The Punisher) Williams will turn 32 years old. 14 months after his motorcycle accident on May 27, 2012, Paul Williams remains the punisher in the dark […]
ALI, STILL THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME By: Boxing Writer Peter Mann “If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize” A poet with mouth and hand, Muhammad Ali, or Cassius Marcellus Clay as he was named at birth, was to be just as good at shooting from the lip […]
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