Three fighters missed weight at UFC Vegas 122. Full card records and weights, main card tale-of-the-tape breakdowns, film study, odds ranges and weigh-in video for Allen vs. Duncan.
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ALL-ACTION FORMER WORLD CHAMPION ARMANDO RESENDIZ TO FACE AUSTRALIAN CONTENDER KOEN MAZOUDIER IN FEATURED BOUT SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 LIVE ON TNT & DAZN FROM THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS Jermall Charlo Out of Previously Scheduled Bout With Injury Plus! Unbeaten Rising Star Marco Romero Battles Braulio Ferreira to Kick Off “The Fight” Live on TNT […]
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DAZN Saturday Night Fights! Golden Boy Presents Schofield vs. Bahdi Chicago Card By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Robert’s Prediction Record: 152-40-9, with 7-4 in major bouts Chicago, Illinois (October 9th, 2026)– Golden Boy Promotions and DAZN will present a nine-bout card with two world title bouts on Saturday Night Fights at […]
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COMPLETE PFL MENA 11: LAST MAN STANDING RESULTS Mostafa Rashed Nada submits Osama ElSeady in the second round of their long-awaited trilogy fight Badreddine Diani, Ylies Djiroun, Mehdi Saadi, Abdelkrim Zouad and Mohammad Fahmi earn places in the PFL MENA Finals PFL MENA 12: MMA’s Most Wanted Set For Al Khobar On December 11 RIYADH, […]
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Ben Whittaker survived a wild final round to outpoint Conor Wallace by unanimous decision in Birmingham and secure the IBF mandatory position. Full card results and video highlights.
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Rise and Fall of Paul Williams Protégé Justin DeLoach Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Several years ago, former World Welterweight champion Paul Williams transitioned from partially paralyzed athlete into boxing trainer. Williams was working with the then world ranked junior middleweight Justin DeLoach of Augusta, Georgia. DeLoach had beaten three […]
Tommy Morrison Case (17-1537) Reaches U.S. Supreme Court Friday November 16, 2018 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Case (17-1537) Tommy Morrison versus Quest Et Al will reach the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, November 16, 2018, and will argue in its filing QUEST withheld scientific data, and acted with malice or […]
The Tony Bellew Burst, Oleksandr The Great Was Tony’s Fate, But David Haye *Photo courtesy GiveMeSport.com Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Tony Bellew beat ex-WBA World Heavyweight champion David Haye at heavyweight twice. With superior skill and movement, Bellew ground the bum legged Haye into submission twice. From 2007 to 2018, […]
Former British Lightweight Champion Bunny Grant of Jamaica Dies at 78 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Kingston, Jamaica (November 13th, 2018)– Former Commonwealth British Empire Lightweight champion Bunny Grant of Kingston, Jamaica, who lost a 15 round decision to Eddie Perkins in April 1964 for the WBA and WBC World […]
Bosnian Surprise! Armin Mrkanovic Will Be the Backup Main Event on Delaware Card By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hockessin, Delaware (November 8th, 2018)– Bosnian surprise! Armin Mrkanovic, AKA ‘The Bosnian Prince’ is uniquely in the gym, waiting in the wings as the backup to the main event of an eleven bout […]
The Changing Face of the Middleweight Division By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boston, MA (October 22, 2018)– Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, having defeated Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin in their epic middleweight world titular rematch, will fight Rocky Fielding for the World Boxing Association World Super Middleweight title in Madison Square Garden on December […]
Sad End of Tomasz Adamek By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On October 6, 2018, at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Illinois, the boxing of former World Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion Tomasz Adamek, met its end in the second round. Adamek, age 41, 53-6, 31 knockouts, and the current Polish Heavyweight […]
Photo by Francois Gervais Former Canadian Heavyweight Champion Patrice L’Heureux Dies at 46 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Montreal, Canada (October 11th, 2018)– The colorful former Canadian Heavyweight champion and Canadian pro football player Patrice L’Heureux has died at age 46. L’Heureux turned pro in 2000 after participating in […]
Ex-Champ Graciano Rocchigiani Dies at 54, Lawsuit Nearly Bankrupted The WBC By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Berlin, Germany (October 5th, 2018)– Former world super middleweight and light heavyweight champion Graciano Rocchigiani of Berlin, Germany, whose lawsuit to have his World Boxing Council world title reinstated nearly bankrupted the WBC, has […]
Wilder vs Fury, We Got Explosive Heavyweight Game! Robert Brizel’s Thoughts on December 1 Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The moment of the Deontay Wilder versus Tyson Fury heavyweight atom bomb rapidly approaches. Wilder, 40-0, versus Fury, 37-0, marks a rare moment when two undefeated heavyweight champions have clashed. […]
Tony Bellew versus Oleksandr Usyk Cruiserweight Explosion Match in Manchester! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Manchester, UK (September 27th, 2018)– Manchester Arena in Manchester, United Kingdom, will host what will be perhaps the greatest cruiserweight match of all time in the history of the 200-pound division on November 10, 2018, […]
ANTHONY JOSHUA VS. ALEXANDER POVETKIN PREVIEW By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (September 21, 2018)– Promoter Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing will present an exciting card of seven professional bouts at Wembley Stadium in London, United Kingdom on Saturday evening, September 22, 2018, televised on United Kingdom Sky Boxing Office. Anthony […]
Who Let The Dogs Out? My Take On Curtis Harper’s Ring Walkout in Minneapolis By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On August 24, 2018, 13-5 Florida journeyman heavyweight Curtis Harper, who once went the eighty round distance with Chris Arreola, walked out of the ring only one second into his six round […]
CANELO VS. GOLOVKIN 2 RECAP Canelo Decisions on His Second Try, Wins World Middleweight Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (September 16th, 2018)– Using a vicious body punch attack which put the taller Gennady GGG Golovkin on the defensive, in a bout broadcast on HBO Pay-Per-View, Saul Canelo Alvarez […]
Heavyweight Amir Mansour Falls at Age 46 as Felip Hrogovic Knocks Him Out in Zagreb, Croatia By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Zagreb, Croatia (September 9th, 2018)-– The world heavyweight title dreams and aspirations of Amir Mansour finally reached the bitter end at age 46 as 2015 European amateur champion Felip Hrogovic […]
Crazy Upset! Hassan Mwakinyo Blows Away Sam Eggington in Birmingham at 1:02 of the Second – Video Highlights By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Birmingham, UK (September 9, 2018)– In a crazy upset, Hassan Mwakinyo, fighting on one week’s notice, blew away the career of Sam Eggington, battering him from pillar to […]
Showtime Shawn Porter Wins WBC Welterweight Title, And It Came As No Surprise By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Brooklyn, NY (September 9th, 2018)–Danny Garcia was more accurate and started the first few rounds to boxing perfection. However, Shawn Porter needed time to warm up. When he did, Porter threw hundreds more […]
Zoltan Petranyi Fights for UBO World Heavyweight Title at 52, Boxer on Edge of Forever By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Zoltan Petranyi of Hungary is 52 years old. Jack Johnson, Rocky Marciano or Muhammad Ali most certainly he is not. Petranyi likes fighting, and he fits into the category of boxers […]
Beware The Ongoing Fury of Tyson Fury Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent He’s big. He’s bad. He’s intimidating. He’s back again. Former undefeated world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury wants a piece of the action, and only Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua stand in his way, for all intensive purposes. […]
Oh C’mon! Bryan Stops Flores in Robert Brizel’s Worst WBA Heavyweight Title Bout Ever Sanctioned *Photo Credit: NYFights.com Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Oh C’mon! how did the WBA see fit to sanction Trevor Bryan and B.J. Flores in an interim WBA World Heavyweight title bout at Celebrity […]
Possible Super Fights & Super Fights on The Horizon By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Here are the definite and could be super fights on the horizon in 2018. One: Eleider Alvarez versus Adonis Stevenson In knocking down Sergey Kovalev three times in round seven, Eleider Alvarez, 34, 24-0 with 12 […]
Most Difficult Moments in Boxing, Long After The Lights Have Faded By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The most difficult moments in boxing happened long after the lights have faded. It is a question a boxing or sports reporter rarely gets, and one most prefer to avoid answering. The most difficult […]
Former British Champion Schoolboy Langston Tinago, Who Beat Buchanan, Dies at 68 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London. UK (July 23, 2018)– Former Zimbabwe and Commonwealth British Empire Lightweight champion Langston ‘Schoolboy’ Tinago, who upset former World Lightweight champion Ken Buchanan in 1981, has died in Zimbabwe at the age of […]
Beibut Shumenov Cruiserweight Factor Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent After a ring absence of two years, Beibut Shumanov has regained the vacant World Boxing Association World Cruiserweight title. Shumanov, 18-2 with 12 knockouts, a Kazakh fighter now fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada, is once again a factor in the […]
Detroit Fall and Rise of Clarissa Shields Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On Friday evening, June 22, 2018, at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, this reporter covered a nine-bout card, with three main event bouts televised on Showtime. The two world championship bouts featured women, a televised first. This […]
Winning Upset of Week: (4-61-2) British Lightweight Jamie Quinn AKA The Devil Child By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom lightweight Jamie ‘Devil Child’ Quinn is the Real Combat Media ‘Ringer of the Week’. Quinn had won only one of his last 47 bouts in the past three years, […]
The Strange Comeback of Australian Heavyweight Roger Izonritei By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Roger Izonritei, 42, is back in the heavyweight mix. The native of Perth, Australia, has a record of 12-6-1 with 11 knockouts. After boxing professionally from 2000 to 2006, Izonritei returned to the ring over 10 years later […]
Weekend Recap: Spence KOs Ocampo, Vazquez, Ritson, Huck Win, Fortuna Falls Out of The Ring *Photo Credit: Richard Rodriguez AP By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent ‘The Great Pretender’ is a 1956 song by The Platters. At 22-0, Carlos Ocampo of Ensenada, Mexico, turned out to be just that-a pretender. 24-0 southpaw […]
Ryuichi Funai, Most Obscure Champion You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Not that anybody really cares who the dominant fighters in the super flyweight division are, but the World Boxing Organization Asia Pacific Super Flyweight champion is former Japanese Super Flyweight champion Ryuichi Funai. At […]
Heavyweight Michael Spinks and Mike Tyson Meet Again 30 Years Later: Spinks Versus Tyson Revisited By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hall of Fame Photo by Tom Patti Michael Spinks, then 30-0 with 21 knockouts, Saint Louis, Missouri, had kneepads on both knees when he fought 34-0 Iron Mike Tyson on […]
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: Could Handshake of Peace Bring Boxing to North Korea? Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent United States President Donald Trump and North Korea leader Kim Jong Un have shaken hands, as the summit of peace is now underway in Singapore. A more relevant sports question […]
Salita Promotions Presents Ten Bout Showtime Detroit Card Featuring Two World Titles By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Promoter Dmitriy Salita and Salita Promotions will present an exciting ten bout card at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, Michigan, televised nationally on USA Showtime Special Edition, on Friday evening, June 22, 2018, […]
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