Magomed Ankalaev stopped Bogdan Guskov by fifth-round TKO to headline UFC Abu Dhabi. Full fight card results, bonus winners, post-fight press conference and video highlights.
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Anthony Joshua survived two first-round knockdowns to stop Kristian Prenga in Jeddah, then fired a pointed message at Tyson Fury. Full card results and video.
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Tim Tszyu outpointed Errol Spence Jr. by unanimous decision in Sydney, sending the former unified welterweight champion into retirement. Full card results and video.
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RIZIN AND PFL MAKE MMA HISTORY WITH FEATHERWEIGHT DOUBLE TITLE FIGHT AT SUPER RIZIN 5 RIZIN Featherweight Champion Razhabali Shaidulloev faces former world champion AJ McKee with both the RIZIN and PFL Featherweight Championships at stake TWO PROMOTIONS. TWO WORLD TITLES. ONE HISTORIC MAIN EVENT TOKYO, JAPAN — July 20, 2026 — RIZIN Fighting Federation and […]
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COMPLETE PFL AUSTIN RESULTS AND PHOTOS Johnny Eblen becomes the PFL Interim Middleweight World Champion as he knocks out Impa Kasanganay at PFL Austin and eyes a unification bout against rival Costello van Steenis Rafael do Nascimento announced himself to the PFL Bantamweight division in the co-main event as he defeated Lewis McGrillen via submission FIGHT NIGHT […]
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Carlos Zambrano and Boxing Scene: Claudio Marrero is Faster Then You Thought By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Las Vegas, NV (May 1st, 2017)– Claudio Marrero disposes of (26-0) Carlos Zambrano in the First Round, April 29, 2017 It took only 90 seconds for southpaw featherweight Carlos ‘The Matrix’ […]
Joshua Drops Klitschko Twice in the 11th, Stops Him, Retains Heavyweight Titles at Wembley By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (April 30th, 2017)– In the main event at Wembley in London, on Saturday, April 29, 2017, Anthony Joshua went to 19-0 with 19 knockouts, coming off the canvas in […]
Preview Word: Joshua versus Klitschko Today is a Happening Good For Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent London, UK (April 29th, 2017)– Tomorrow is already here, Saturday, April 29, 2017, at Wembley in London. The past of the heavyweight division will face the present and the future tonight When […]
Mihai Nistor, Olympic Heavyweight Beast Boxer in Training Who Knocked Out Anthony Joshua By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Mihai Nistor KOs Anthony Joshua, Wins European Amateur Heavyweight Championship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUx9sDcl2Cw Why on earth would any amateur heavyweight beast great enough to beat up on and knock out world heavyweight […]
The Strange Case of Heavyweight Paul Sykes, Britain’s Hardest Prisoner By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent By far, the strangest fighter ever to come out of Great Britain has to be the late heavyweight Paul Sykes (1946-2007). While Sykes was no Frank Bruno or Lennox Lewis, Sykes remains perhaps the […]
Adrien Broner Arrested in Kentucky Driving Bullet Riddled SUV: Bad Boy on the Run Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do? What you gonna do when them come for you? Former world welterweight champion Adrien Broner has gotten himself arrested again, this […]
From Aaron Hernandez to Edwin Valero, April 19 Suicides and Common Denominators By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, 27, committed suicide by hanging himself in his jail cell on April 19, 2017, at Sousa-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, only five days after […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Assessing Heavyweight Calvin Brock’s Knockout Power By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Ten years after heavyweight contender Calvin Brock’s forced retirement due to medical issues, a historical lookback reveals Brock had substantially more talent than he is given credit for by boxing historians. More often than not overlooked, […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Ten Bouts Where One Last Punch Made A Difference By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent When a fight hear its final round conclusion, not every fighter makes it or wins. Every second counts. Here are a few of my favorite wild endings: One: George Foreman versus […]
Matador Ricardo Mayorga Returns at 43, Slays Zepeda In Three By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Managua, Nicaragua (April 3rd, 2017)– Ricardo ‘El Matador’ Mayorga, returning to the ring at age 43, and weighing 175 pounds, scored a third round stoppage of Mexican journeyman Jaudiel Zepeda after 20 months of […]
Happy Birthday Jose Ribalta Interview: Memories of Castro’s Cuba, Calls Out Mike Tyson for Gentleman’s Rematch By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In an international Real Combat Media boxing exclusive former heavyweight contender Jose ‘El Nino’ Ribalta, on the occasion of his 54th birthday on March 31, 2017, has become the first […]
The Iraqi Butcher, Super Middleweight Sinan Fradi RCM Interview: Revenge at 2:59 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a Real Combat Media interview exclusive, a rare Iraqi professional boxer hopes to take the super middleweight division by storm in the next 12 months. He calls himself ‘The Iraqi Butcher’. Undefeated […]
Welterweight Angel Manfredy Interview: How You Go To Heaven With Boxing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a Real Combat Media international interview exclusive, former world welterweight contender Angel Manfredy cited his spiritual kinship with the lord as the inspiration for his current career training and working with boxers. […]
Rayco Saunders (23-30) Gets Lucky Technical Draw with Unbeaten DeAndre Ware By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Dearborn, Michigan (March 27th, 2017)– Get really lucky! This is worse than cherry picking. 42 year old light heavy weight journeyman veteran Rayco Saunders, now 23-30-2 with 10 knockouts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a 56 […]
Fantasy Boxing: Brizel’s All-Time Virtual Heavyweight Boxing Championship Tournament: Round Three By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a grand experiment, I took 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 three, using more than […]
New WBC Silver Welterweight Champion Quadratillo Abduqaxorov Is A Dangerous Undefeated Unknown Prospect Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Singapore, Singapore (March 26th, 2017)– Errol Spence Jr., Keith Thurman, Kell Brook, Shawn Porter, Danny Garcia, Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan, Timothy Bradley Jr., everybody better watch out. Every once an awhile, […]
Jaafar Promotions Presents Lanardo Tyner Nine Bout Ford Center Card in Dearborn By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Eddie Jaafar Promotions will present a nine bout card of boxing on Sunday, March 26, 2017, at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan, featuring former USBO and WBC […]
Rare Alan Blyweiss Interview: Double Broken Nose Bloodbath Bout with Tommy Morrison By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent You heard it right. Former Washington D.C. Golden Gloves champion Alan Blyweiss of Pennsylvania, in an exclusive Real Combat Media interview, tells of the unbelievable time, several decades ago, when he fought the […]
Sugar Boy Younan Decisions Darocha at Mountaineer. New York State Title Next? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New Cumberland, West Virginia (March 21st, 2017)– Rapidly rising Brooklyn super middleweight and light heavyweight prospect Junior ‘Sugar Boy’ Younan went to 11-0 with eight knockouts with a brutal and bloody […]
Oldest Active Heavyweights Out There By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Here is a current list of the 40 and over heavyweight club. Those worth of mention are noted, regardless of their recent performances. Others have received honorable mention. Guillermo Jones-The rarely seen top ten heavyweight and former world cruiserweight […]
Canadian Upset of Year: Lacho Cabral Upsets (25-0) McGuinness, Wins WBC Silver Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Brampton, Canada (March 20th, 2017)– This past weekend, Kazakhstan’s GGG defeated Danny Jacobs in his Brooklyn hometown , Polish heavyweight contender Marius Wach defeated Erkan Teper in his native Germany, and Germany’s […]
Wach Upsets Teper in Germany, Wins IBF Regional Title By 12 Round Decision By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Leipsig, Arena, Poland (March 20th, 2017)– Some upsets do not figure. Erkan Teper has been beaten by 12 round decision for the second consecutive time in Germany. In the main event […]
Was It Highway Robbery or Not? GGG Gets Decision over Jacobs at Madison Square Garden, Unifies Middleweight Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (March 19th, 2017)– It was a clash of middleweight champions. Earlier the morning of the bout, Saturday, March 18, 2017, Danny Jacobs did […]
Dimitrenko KOs (14-0) Granat in First, When Heavyweight Tune Up on Prospect By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Hamburg, Germany (March 19th, 2017)– How often does it happen when the tune up fighter paid to come in tunes up on the prospect he was supposed to lose to instead? It happens […]
Mansour Decisions Kauffman in 12, Wins USBA and WBC USNBC Heavyweight Titles By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent-Ringside Click HERE for Photos from Premier Boxing Champions Reading, PA (March 18th, 2017)– Amir ‘Hardcore’ Mansour, age 44, picked up the biggest win of his career on Friday night, March 17, 2017, in […]
Stinker at Santander Arena: Grayton Head Butts Cintron to Five Round Majority Draw By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent- Ringside Reading PA (March 18th, 2017)– In a welterweight undercard preliminary to the main event scheduled 10 round stinker at Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Friday evening, March 17, 2017, David […]
Miracle Man or Melt Down? Danny Jacobs versus GGG Madison Square Garden Preview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (March 17th, 2017)– Gennady Golovkin alias GGG, 36-0, 33 knockouts, Los Angeles, California, via Karaganda, Kazakhstan, squares off against Daniel ‘Miracle Man’ Jacobs, 32-1, 29 knockouts, Brownsville, Brooklyn, […]
Memories of Lou Duva, Trainer and Promoter Extraordinaire Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media The weekend date in Atlantic City was March 6, 2010. For the 88 year old Lou Duva, International, New Jersey and Italian Hall of Fame boxing trainer and promoter […]
Former WBC Middleweight Champion Rodrigo Valdez Dies at Age 70 in Colombia By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Cartagena, Colombia (March 16th, 2017)– Former World Boxing Council World Middleweight champion Rodrigo ‘Rocky’ Valdez, who decked Carlos Monzon in the WBA and WBC unification bout which followed, lost the […]
Cherry Picking Opponents Gone Wrong in 2017 Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Tom Hogan, Hogan Photos When Iron Mike Tyson lost to Danny Williams, Tyson seemed to be about the only opponent to lose to Williams, who has lost 26 times in his career. Yet Iron Mike got […]
Middleweight David Lemieux Anesthetizes Curtis Stevens with Left Hook in Third Round By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Verona, NY (March 12, 2017)– Canadian middleweight David Lemieux has 33 knockouts in his 40 bout career, an 83% knockout ratio. Curtis Stevens appeared to ignore that statistic, and proceeded to slug […]
Boo Boo Decision! Andrade Wins Vacant WBA Super Welterweight Title on Split in 12 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rhineland-Phatz, Germany (March 12th, 2017)– Demetrius ‘Boo-Boo’ Andrade, the southpaw former WBO World Super Welterweight champion, won the WBA World Super Welterweight championship last night in Rhineland-Phatz, Germany, by split […]
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