Badou Jack vs. Noel Mikaelian 2 Full Card Results Los Angeles, CA (December 14th, 2025)– In a major boxing rematch on December 13, 2025, Noel Mikaelian, 35 (28-3, 12 Kos) defeated Badou Jack, 42 (29-4-3, 17 Kos) by unanimous decision (116-110, 115-111, 116-110) at Ace Mission Studios in Los Angeles to regain the WBC cruiserweight […]
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Diego Pacheco defeats Kevin Lele Sadjo in Stockton, CA – Video Highlights Stockton, CA (December 14th, 2025)– Rising Super Middleweight star, Diego Pacheco, 24, (25-0, 18 Kos) came off the canvas in round 8 and defeated Kevin Lele Sadjo, 35, (26-1, 23 Kos) by unanimous decision on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at the Adventist Health […]
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UFC Vegas 112 Results, Video Highlights, Post Presser & Social Media Reaction Check out full UFC Vegas 112 results and highlights below. Main card Flyweight: Manel Kape def. Brandon Royval via TKO (punches) 3:18 of R1 Featherweight: Kevin Vallejos def. Giga Chikadze via KO (spinning backfist) 1:29 of R2 | Watch finish Middleweight: Cesar Almeida def. […]
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TWO NEW PFL WORLD CHAMPIONS CROWNED AT PFL LYON AS VADIM NEMKOV AND CRIS CYBORG REIGN SUPREME Russia’s Vadim Nemkov leaves Lyon with the PFL Heavyweight World Championship over his shoulder as he submitted Brazil’s Renan Ferreira in round one Cris Cyborg adds another title to her legacy as she wins the PFL Women’s Featherweight […]
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REAL COMBAT MEDIA WEEKLY BOXING/MMA NEWS *For Immediate Release to Publish Roselle, Park, NJ (December 12th, 2025)– Welcome to the Real Combat Media Boxing & MMA Fights of the Week, where we discuss the week’s most significant news and the most notable fights in the sports of boxing and MMA, so you can save time by getting […]
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Is 22-0 Oleksandr Usyk the Reincarnation of 49-0 Rocky Marciano? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent 22-0 Oleksandr Usyk of Ukraine, currently the undisputed World Heavyweight champion, has boxed 241 rounds in his 22 pro bouts between 2013 and 2023. Rocky Marciano, ‘The Brockton Blockbuster’, from Brockton, Massachusetts, went 49-0 in his […]
Heavyweight Champ Rocky Marciano, Who Never Fought in a Casino By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There are many things that can be said about the late World Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano of Brockton, Massachusetts, whose career record of 49-0 in the heavyweight division remains unsurpassed. Ex-champion Larry Holmes of Easton, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why MMA Legend Iceman Chuck Liddell Should Never Be Allowed To Fight Again Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Mixed Martial Artist Chuck Liddell, who is 48 years old, is a former UFC Light Heavyweight champion. Why, after being out of the MMA ring for over eight years, would Liddell […]
Christmas Farewell and Tribute to Willie Toweel By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent When this reporter heard the great Willie Toweel, who Rocky Marciano once described as the white version of Sugar Ray Robinson in the lower weight classes, had passed away on Christmas night 2017 at age 83, a reflective look […]
49-0 WBC Minimumweight Champion Chayaphon Moonsri, Rocky Marciano Nobody Knows By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rocky Marciano and Floyd Mayweather Jr., watch out. 49-0 World Boxing Council Minimumweight World champion Chayaphon Moonsri is only 32 years old, and still winning big time. Moonsri has never fought outside of his […]
Bright Lights From The ‘Dark’ Continent: Boxing Greats From Africa By Jackie Edwards Boxing is more than just strength meeting strength. It’s about agility, speed and power and making quick decisions to beat your opponent. And it’s one of the primary skill sets that a mixed martial artist can have. Boxing has never lost its popularity, […]
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 […]
Rocky Marciano, Brizel’s Best Boxing Role Model Ever. Here’s Why By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Of all boxers past and present, it is my view Rocky Marciano was the best role model of all time to youth and people, and also the best public speaker ever of all boxers […]
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 […]
Rocky Marciano Nephew Star Athlete Peter Marciano Jr. Dies at 48 in Brockton By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om39PuqfVGA Iowa Hawkeyes Head Coach Kirk Ferentz, talks about Peter, with career highlights. Peter Marciano Jr., a baseball and football star who was the nephew of the late World Heavyweight […]
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, […]
1 CONTENDER CESAR CUENCA LOOKS TO CLOSE IN ON ROCKY MARCIANO WITH WORLD TITLE VICTORY OVER NO. 2-RATED “IK” YANG Undefeated Warriors Battle for IBF Jr. Welterweight Title This Saturday! July 18, at The Venetian Macao Live to the U.S. via www.toprank.tv at 6 A.M. ET MACAU, CHINA (July 17, […]
Heavyweight Carmine Bingo Vingo Dies at 85, Career Ended with Loss to Rocky Marciano By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (June 14th, 2015)– Carmine ‘Bingo Vingo’ Vingo, whose career ended on December 30, 1949, when he got knocked out in the sixth round of his bout with rising […]
Rocky Marciano and Riddick Bowe: Most Underestimated Heavyweight Champions Ever By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rocky Marciano and Riddick Bowe are former world heavyweight champions of unique distinction. Bowe and Marciano combine for a professional record of 92-1 with a recent win over every opponent they fought. Marciano […]
Earnie Shavers Atomic Bomb Heavyweight Punches By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Called ‘The Black Destroyer’ and ‘The Acorn’, Earnie Shavers scored 68 knockouts in his 89 bout career between 1969 and 1995. His final professional record was 74 wins, 14 losses, and one draw (in a rematch with jimmy Young). […]
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 […]
Rocky Marciano on the Scorecards When He Beat Jersey Joe Walcott For The Title By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent When Rocky Marciano fought Jersey Joe Walcott for the world heavyweight title at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1952, Rocky weighed a cruiserweight 194 ½ pounds to Walcott’s 196 ½ […]
Brizel’s All Time Virtual Heavyweight Boxing Championship Tournament: Round Two By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In an experiment, I took some of the famous names in the heavyweight division, champions and contenders, past and present, and did my own all-time heavyweight tournament on paper. Here are my results for round one, […]
Reporters Telling The Truth in Boxing: An Online Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York,NY (June 15th,2013)– A boxing reporter is, by nature, a neutral and fair reporter of boxing in sports. He or she does not favor one promoter or another by design. The goal of […]
Whatever Happened To Boone Kirkman, The Second Great White Hope? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Ranked as high as seventh in the world by Ring Magazine, the bible of boxing, Boone ‘Boom Boom’ Kirkman was the second of the so-called ‘Great White Hopes, coming between Rocky Marciano […]
Silliest Ring Event in History: Rocky Marciano Versus Bob Hope, Bing as Referee RCM Historical Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Not every exhibition by Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis is documented, as there were too many to count. Perhaps the second silliest ring event was […]
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 […]
Shane McPhilbin Interview By: Peter Van-Leyden Peter Van Leyden talks with former British Cruiserweight Champion Shane McPhilbin who took a break from his busy training schedule to discuss his career so far. Shane is challenging for his old Lonsdale belt he controversially lost to Welshman Enzo Maccarinelli. During this fight the time keepers […]
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