All Three Judges Agree 116-112, Usyk Outpoints Fury, Retains World Heavyweight Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (December 22, 2024)– Oleksandr Usyk, came on strongly in rounds six, seven, eight and nine to take complete control over a reactive Tyson Fury and retain the lineal, WBC, WBA and […]
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Former World Champion Wilfredo Benitez, 66, Moved to Chicago Hospital Intensive Care By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Known as ‘The Bible of Boxing’, former World Junior Welterweight, Welterweight and Super Welterweight World champion Wilfredo ‘El Radar’ Benitez, 66, in declining health for years under the care of his late mother, […]
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French WBC Super Bantamweight Champion Thierry Jacob Dies at 59 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Paris, France (December 25th, 2024)–Former southpaw World Boxing Council World Super Bantamweight champion Thierry Jacob has died of lung cancer in his native Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France at age 59. Between 1984 and 1994, Jacob compiled a […]
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UFC Fight Night Tampa Results & Video Highlights By MMA News UFC Fight Night took place tonight from the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida and MMA News has you covered with all the results and highlights! In the main event, welterweights Colby Covington and Joaquin Buckley clashed. While in the co-main event, Cub Swanson faced Billy Quarantillo in a […]
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Usyk Favored by Decision in Kingdom Arena Rematch Before Return to Cruiserweight By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sign up to Watch Usyk vs. Fury 2 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (December 21st, 2024)– Lineal World Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is predicted to defeat former champion Tyson Fury by a split decision or […]
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Emile Griffith Dies at 75, One of Bert Sugar’s All-Time Greats By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Twice during his career as a boxing writer, the late great boxing writer Bert Sugar came up with his list of the 100 greatest fighters of all-time. Emile Griffith was on both lists, and deservedly so. […]
What Ever Happened To The Good Old Days of Boxing? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Remember Hearns and Hagler, Leonard Hearns, Leonard and Duran, and Hagler and Duran? Remember the fan man who came crashing down in the middle of the world heavyweight title bout between Riddick Bowe […]
Pacquiao Challenges Floyd, Needs To Sign With Mayweather Promotions To Get Floyd By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Manny Pacquiao is over the hill, and has taken one punch too many. Pacquiao has been knocked out three times, and his last knockout lost to Juan Manuel Marquez was not funny. […]
Craziest Fight of 2013! The Most Bizarre Five Seconds You Will Ever See By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Dwayne McRae versus Dennis Benson, May 11, 2013, On May 11, 2013, heavyweights Dwayne McRae of Maryland and Dennis Benson of Virginia fought what is for sure the craziest […]
Paul Williams at 32: His Fate is in The Hands of The Gods By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On July 27, 2013, Paul (The Punisher) Williams will turn 32 years old. 14 months after his motorcycle accident on May 27, 2012, Paul Williams remains the punisher in the dark […]
Wrestling Champion Nature Boy Ric Flair in Trouble With The Law Again By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Raleigh, NC (July 18th, 2013)– A North Carolina judge has issued an arrest warrant for the still active and ageless former world professional wrestling champion Ric Flair, AKA ‘Nature Boy’ age […]
When 500 Million Dollars Ain’t Enough: Iron Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Sugar Ray Robinson, James Jeffries, and Other Boxing Bankruptcies By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Light middleweight boxer James De La Rosa went bankrupt over credit card debts and medical bills. Top rated lightweight contender Henry […]
The Mountain Awaits Ronald Hearns, The Chosen One By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent RCM Editorial Chicago, IL (July 17th, 2013)– Middleweight Ronald ‘The Chosen One’ Hearns, 34, son of Hall of Fame boxing champion Thomas ‘Hitman’ Hearns, has not enjoyed the sort of fame or boxing career […]
Welterweight Mike Jones Has a Fading Star By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former top ranked welterweight prospect Mike Jones has a rapidly fading star. Jones, who has not fought since losing to Randall Bailey for the vacant international Boxing Federation welterweight title in June 2012, has been trying to make a contractual […]
Tubagus Sakti Tragedy Could Have Been Prevented By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Seventeen year old professional boxer Tubagus Sakti of Indonesia died in the ring this past January 2013 after being stopped in the eighth round of a scheduled 12 rounder against Ichal Tobida. With a record of […]
Bruce Lee and The Nunchakus in Martial Arts: Making Them Dangerous By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Before friend and fellow student Dan Inosanto introduced the late martial artist Bruce Lee in 1964 to nunchucks or ‘chain sticks’, Lee had no interest in them and thought nothing of […]
Boxing Rematches Past and Present Are Chess Matches: A Writer’s Perspective By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rematches require a certain mindset. They either result in redemption or repeat. Experience can count, but tactics and a different game plan are clearly more important in a rematch. Quoting Tony Thompson after […]
Heavyweight Boxing Life and Times of Nelson Mandela July 1918-July 2013 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent As the lifetime of former South African President and anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela draws to a close in a vegetative state close to his 95th birthday on July 18, […]
The Three Wise Men: The Referee Has Not An Easy Job Folks By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The referees are always the unsung heroes in every amateur and professional sport. What they do is something between difficult an amazing. The athletes get credit. The officials get scrutinized. The […]
Could Football Be More Dangerous Than Boxing? A Sports Writer’s Perspective By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York Giants and New York Jets punter Dave Jennings died of Parkinson’s disease this week at age 61. Playing in the National Football League triples the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease and […]
Where’s The Duke? Tommy Morrison 2013 Update By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (June 17th, 2013)– A serious challenge for the boxing writer is to write a story about a famous name boxer when there’s virtually no information available. Former world heavyweight champion Tommy ”The Duke’ Morrison is […]
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 […]
Adonis Stevenson Wipes Chad Dawson Off The Map, Claims WBC Title By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Montrael, Canada (June 10th, 2013)– The late Emanuel Steward has trained another world champion. It’s just that 35 year old Adonis Stevenson of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been fighting out of Quebec, Canada, in […]
Floyd Will Knock Out Canelo Alvarez, The First Worldwide Prediction for Sept 14 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (May 31st, 2013)–Floyd Mayweather Jr. versus Manny Pacquiao missed the boat. Never one to wait for the next promotion to become a sinking ship, Floyd Mayweather […]
Mayweather has marked Alvarez the chosen one. By Tom Mauriello Real Combat Media Correspondent Brooklyn, NY (May 30th, 2013)– Let me start this off by saying, Floyd Mayweather knows more about boxing then every one of us. Floyd had the opportunity to fight any fighter he wanted, but as he said on […]
When The Name of The Game is The Man in the Middle By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Rare it is when a professional boxing world championship bout takes place, and everything goes smoothly because the referee sets a precise tempo for a super clean bout. Such was the case on […]
Can Hot and Cold Chicago Heavyweight Carl Davis Beat 18-0 Andy Ruiz Jr.? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Chicago, IL (May 25, 2012)– In recent months, Chicago cruiserweight and heavyweight Carl ‘Iron Fist’ Davis has been walking the walk-and talking the talk-about possible pending bouts […]
Father and Son Fighters Oliver McCall and Elijah McCall Make History in Losing By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Oliver McCall is a former world heavyweight champion, and his son Elijah McCall is a rising heavyweight prospect. At age 48, Oliver McCall ahs been stopped only once, in a rematch with […]
Maurice Harris in Another Heavyweight Comeback Bid. Is Mago Next? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media correspondent Maurice ‘No Better’ Harris is back at age 37, the veteran heavyweight having won a close split decision over six rounds over Jason Bergman on May 3, 2013, in Pennsylvania. Harris, now 26-17-2 […]
Into The Future With 2012 Olympian Taras Shelestyuk By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Banner Promotions might have its next world light middleweight champion in the future with 2012 Ukrainian Olympian Taras Shelestyuk. With an amateur record of 195-15, Taras was the 2011 World Championships Gold […]
Saving Omar Henry: An Argument For Boxer’s Health Insurance By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (May 13th, 2013)– Gerald McClellan in Great Britain. Shannon Briggs in Germany. Omar Henry in the United States. The truth is, it really doesn’t matter where, when, why or what the […]
It’s Showtime! Floyd Mayweather’s Merry-Go-Round of $$$ Candidates Narrows By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Here ye, here ye! It’s Showtime! With five more ‘money money money’ lucrative televised bouts in the planning for Floyd Mayweather Jr. on a six fight deal, the only questions remaining are: one, can Floyd remain […]
Mandingo on Ice: Whatever Happened To James Kirkland? Brizel’s Thoughts By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Light middleweight boxer James ‘Mandingo’ Kirkland has seemingly vanished from the boxing scene for over 13 months after his ten round disqualification win over Carlos ‘King’ Molina. Meanwhile, Carlos Molina, the man he beat, got over […]
Taps For Caimerino, Super Featherweight Carmelo Negron Dies at Age 53 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Chicago, IL (May 11th, 2013)– Hard hitting Puerto Rican Super Featherweight Carmelo ‘Caimerino’ Negron, who won the first 17 bouts of his career, including 10 bouts at Madison Square Garden at the Felt Forum […]
Song and Strategy: Lovely May Weather For A Win By Floyd Mayweather Anew By Robert Brizel By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent The May Ride Song by Robert Brizel, to the Music of Sleigh Ride Just hear those ring bells jingle-ing See fighters ring ting tingle-ing too Come on, […]
Boxing Stupidity! Robert Brizel’s opinion on Rematches and Instant Replay By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Boxing stupidity is coming soon, to major boxing events and pay-per-view television nearest you. Big promoters in obsession mismatch rematches. Play It Again, Sam. First, let’s go to the videotape. When I heard the World […]
Audley Harrison and Danny Williams Should Call It A Day By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent On April 27, 2013, 28-0 American heavyweight Deontay needed only 70 seconds to finish Audley Harrison in the first round. A 41 year old southpaw who has won the London Prizefighter tournament twice, two recent first round […]
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