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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Worst Heavyweight Championship Bout After A Car Accident By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Among the most unique and challenging questions posed, have there been major boxing matches held after one of the scheduled participants was injured in a car accident? The first reaction would be such a bout would have […]
Goodbye Muhammad Ali. A Boxing Era Ends. By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hearing Muhammad Ali, ‘The Greatest,’ passed away from septic shock while hospitalized in Phoenix, Arizona for respiratory problems. The event merits reflective understanding. Ali waged the fight of his life to keep living on a number of […]
A Tribute Poem for Smokin’ Joe Frazier By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Float like a smoking cannon, sting like a tree Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s soul be free The trees and the leaves blow with the season Ali’s there and I’m gone. What’s the reason? Left hook, right hook, […]
Understanding Nat Fleischer, The Man Who Saved Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The great boxing journalist and historian, the late Nat Fleischer, died in 1972. Since his passing, subsequent generations of sports journalists have systematically attacked his reputation. Fleischer spent more than half a century at ringside and […]
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, […]
Jack Bodell to David Price Connection: British Heavyweights Who Fell Short Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent For a brief moment, southpaw heavyweight Jack Bowell was a British heavyweight who seemed well on his way to going places. Bodell had decisioned Joe Bugner in September 1971 to win the Commonwealth […]
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 […]
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT WORLD CHAMPION AND FUTURE HALL OF FAMER BERNARD HOPKINS AND GOLDEN BOY PROMOTIONS DONATE FUNDS FOR COMPLETION OF JOE FRAZIER STATUE IN PHILADELPHIA Photo Credit: Stephen Layne PHILADELPHIA (April 3, 2014) – IBF Light Heavyweight World Champion Bernard “The Alien” Hopkins is pleased to announce that he and Golden Boy Promotions have […]
Remembering Gil Clancy, They Don’t Make ‘Em Like They Used To By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent RCM Historical Boxing Hall of Fame boxing trainer Gil Clancy is probably best remembered as a CBS, MSG and HBO television boxing commentator, and not as a trainer of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George […]
Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s 1978 Miller Lite Beer Singing Commercial Resurfaces By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Remember when Joe Frazier was also a singer? Real Combat Media brings you historical boxing’s magical moments with a twist! Take a walk down memorial lane with Smokin’ Joe Frazier and the knockouts, […]
FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR.’S CHARITABLE DONATIONS By: UK Boxing Writer Jai Singh Boxing superstar and often trashed celebrity Floyd Mayweather Jr. is paying a nearly $50,000 hospital bill for a 11-month-old from Austin York, of Gardnerville, Nevada, who was born with a rare heart abnormality, according to one of Floyds assistants, David Levi, of Mayweather […]
Joe Frazier vs Muhammad Ali III –The Thrilla in Manilla By: Boxing Writer Scott Canipe “They weren’t really fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world in Manilla, they were fighting for the heavyweight championship of each other.”– Thomas Hauser, Muhammad Ali’s biographer On October 1, 1975, a brutal display of skill and will was […]
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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