Boxing Tragedies: Ex-Champ Nigel Benn His Loses Brother Mark, Contender Anthony Yarde Loses Father and Grandmother to Coronavirus By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Great Britain and the world continue to get hit and hurt by the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. The emotional toll and devastation of the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus continues […]
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Dark Destroyer Returns! 55-Year-Old Nigel Benn To Make Comeback Against Sakio Bika
Dark Destroyer Returns! 55-Year-Old Nigel Benn To Make Comeback Against Sakio Bika By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent When Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. announced his pending return to the ring in 2019 at age 57 (a charity exhibition), one wondered who could be next. The answer is in. It’s a shocker. Nigel […]
REAL COMBAT MEDIA UK: Boxing Sons of the Nigel Benn
Boxing Sons of the Nigel Benn By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: The Sun Between 1987 and 1996, London’s controversial darling, Nigel Benn, ‘The Dark Destroyer’, figured into 13 consecutive WBC and WBO World Super Middleweight title bouts, finishing his career 42-5-1 with 35 knockouts. His last three bouts were […]
REAL COMBAT MEDIA UK: CONOR BENN: DAD SAYS GLASGOW FANS ARE ON ANOTHER LEVEL.
REAL COMBAT MEDIA UK: CONOR BENN: DAD SAYS GLASGOW FANS ARE ON ANOTHER LEVEL. Conor Benn ready to follow in fathers’ footsteps on Saturday night. Manchester, UK, (29th of May 2016)– Conor Benn says his legendary father has told him to prepare for one of the best atmospheres in boxing when he laces his gloves […]
Referee Alfredo Asaro and The Thriller in London
Referee Alfredo Asaro and The Thriller in London By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Atlantic City, NJ (February 17, 2013)–While many boxing writers have looked at the overall outcome of ‘The Big fight’, the Nigel Benn versus Gerald McClellan World Boxing Council Super Middleweight title bout in 1995, and the resulting tragic brain injury […]
Nigel Benn to fight in Middlesbrough Farewell Show
Nigel Benn to fight in Middlesbrough Farewell Show By: Callum Meads Middlesbrough, UK – Nigel Benn is set to feature in a farewell exhibition bout with former National Amateur Champion and local boxing promoter Tony Robinson. The fight is scheduled to take place on Saturday 8th December in an already packed out Eston Sports Academy. […]