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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Natalia Silva beat Wang Cong by unanimous decision to win the vacant UFC women's flyweight title at UFC 332. Full card results, video highlights and press conference.
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Only one fighter missed weight for UFC 332. Full card records and weights, main card tale-of-the-tape breakdowns, film study, odds ranges and weigh-in video for Silva vs. Wang at the Delta Center.
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Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua traded barbs and shared a civil face-off at their London launch press conference. Get the full preview for the December 11 fight in Cardiff, with tale of the tape, odds and the press conference video.
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Matchroom and Boxlab Present 10 Unbeaten Prospects DAZN Card with Omari Jones By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Robert Brizel (2025-2026) Prediction Record: 144-40-9, 7-4 in Major Bouts Orlando, Florida (September 29th, 2026)– DAZN, Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing and Boxlab Promotions will present eight bouts featuring 10 unbeaten prospects at Caribe Royal […]
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Richard ‘The Boxing Prophet’ Solomon’s Picks Of the Week (7/25/15) By Richard Solomon, RCM Boxing Radio Panel-Host Richard’s love of boxing preceded his love of solid food. Doctors report he came out of his mother’s womb throwing a jab. As a child he would only ever count from 1 to 10, and his favorite […]
Jack Bodell to David Price Connection: British Heavyweights Who Fell Short Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent For a brief moment, southpaw heavyweight Jack Bowell was a British heavyweight who seemed well on his way to going places. Bodell had decisioned Joe Bugner in September 1971 to win the Commonwealth […]
Jack Johnson versus Victor McLaglen 1909 Bout in Canada Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent From time to time, boxing fans and historians have discussed the heavyweight match between Jack Johnson versus Victor McLaglen in 1909 as Canada’s most significant bout in the era preceding Archie Moore’s World Light Heavyweight defense against […]
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 […]
How Would Sergey Kovalev Fair Against Other Famous Light Heavyweights? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent This question has not been asked of the boxing experts and historians as of yet. Therefore, this boxing writer has considered the famous light heavyweight names of the past, and come up with conclusions as […]
SCOTT CANIPE’S TOP 5 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS OF ALL TIME By Scott Canipe, Real Combat Media Boxing Video Reporter FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @REALCOMBATMEDIA LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: REALCOMBATMEDIA FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM : REALCOMBATMEDIA CHECK OUT OUR QUALITY SPONSORED PRODUCTS NUTRIENT RICH HEMP PLANT PROTEIN IMPROVE BRAIN FUNCTION WITH ‘ALPHA BRAIN’ IMPROVE YOUR ENERGY WITH SHROOMTECH […]
Gene Fullmer Never Forgot Sugar Ray Robinson’s Left Hook By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Gene Fuller, Regains World Middleweight Title https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdROjwy34qU On January 2, 1957, Sugar Ray Robinson lost a 15 round unanimous decision and his world middleweight title to Mormon boxer Gene Fullmer. […]
4th Annual New York State Boxing Hall of Fame Induction By Pattee Mak, Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Pattee Mak, Real Combat Media Howard Beach, NY (April 27, 2015)– It was a fun filled busy afternoon at the 4th annual NYSBHOF induction ceremony held in New York. The following are a list […]
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 […]
Iran Blade Barkley Interview: On The Comeback Trail of Life By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Robert Brizel In a recent Real Combat Media interview exclusive ringside, former World Middleweight, Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion Iran ‘The Blade’ Barkley talked comeback, the ring, and more. Barkley, age 54, […]
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). […]
Sensational Hooliganism! Boxing Brawl at the Sydney Opera House By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent We speak often of great boxing brawls like Andrew Golota versus Riddick Bowe at Madison Square Garden. One of my favorite brawls occurred in the ring at the Sydney Opera House on April 2, 1982, with […]
Iron Mike Tyson’s Ten Moments of Madness By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Over the years, boxing fans have come to know, love and expect Iron Mike Tyson’s crazy zany moments. More a person of rage than a boxer of raw talent, schooled by the late legendary trainer Cus D’Amato, Iron […]
Are Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Jack Dempsey The Most Overrated Fighters? By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Jack Dempsey, ‘The Manassa Mauler’, and Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr. certainly are two of the most famous names of the sport of boxing, two fighters whose popularity cannot be topped in their respective eras. Jack Dempsey […]
Sensational Sam Langford, The Boston Tar Baby By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Sam Langford, The Boston Tar Baby, was the one fighter Jack Dempsey was afraid of and absolutelyrefused to fight. Langford figured into 316 professional bouts between 1902 and 1926, winning 179, losing 30, drawing 39, with a record of 31-14-16 […]
Remembering Harold Johnson, Light Heavyweight Champion By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Harold Johnson is one of those Hall of Fame boxers remembered as extraordinary, because he was ordinary. Both Harold and his boxing father, 22-17 New Jersey heavyweight Phil Johnson, uniquely both lost to Jersey Joe Walcott, who went […]
Remembering Italian Heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon, A Historical Look Back By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon of Italy hit the world rankings in the 1970s by opening his career 20-2-1, including beating Alfredo Evangelista, winning a rematch with Lucien Rodriguez, beating Brian O’Melia and drawing with Randy Stephens. Zanon […]
Ali-Liston II Boxing Gloves Auction of the Century By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali, previously known as Cassius Clay, retained the World Heavyweight title in Lewiston, Maine, with a controversial first round knockout over former champion Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston. Referee Jersey Joe Walcott blew […]
Whatever Happened To Rock Newman? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Rock Newman was best known as the manager of Riddick ‘Big Daddy’ Bowe, the Hallof Fame World Heavyweight champion on whose behalf Newman negotiated a potential revenue and compensation […]
Whatever Happened To Marvelous Marvin Hagler? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Marvelous Marvin Hagler was oonly the second famous fighter to train out of Brockton, Massachusetts, after Brockton’s native son Rocky Marciano. Hagler was a southpaw middleweight world champion. Hagler compiled a record of […]
Sonny Liston versus Old Mongoose Archie Moore Heavyweight Title Dream Fight By Robert Brizel, head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Here is an interesting historical matchup. Let su presume ‘The Old Mongoose’, Archie Moore, did not fight Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in November 1962, and instead Archie had continued to defend the NYSAC version […]
Mysterious Billy Smith, The Dirtiest Fighter Who Ever Lived By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent To have been world champion, in the highest historical sense, means a boxer has to have done some things right to get there. Not all boxers who reach a world title can stay there. Some […]
Rocky Marciano and Floyd Mayweather and the 120 Million Dollar Question By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Is Floyd Mayweather Jr. the greatest professional boxer of all-time? Better even than Rocky Marciano? The late Angelo Dundee answered such challenge questions with “Hypothetical questions like that leave me cold. In their time, […]
Ernie Terrell, WBA World Heavyweight Champion Who Fought Ali, Dies at 75 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Chicago, Il (December 20, 2014)– Ernie Terrell of Chicago, Illinois, who won the vacant World Boxing Association World Heavyweight title in March 1965 in Chicago with a 15 round decision over Eddie Machen, […]
Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini International Boxing Hall of Fame Class of 2015 inductee TORONTO/NEW YORK CITY (Dec. 4, 2014) – The International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) today announced its newest class of inductees, including former world lightweight champion Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini. Also being inducted into the IBHOF are Class of 2015 Living […]
Whatever Happened To The Jersey Jolter, Frankie De Paula? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxing fans tend to remember the great fighters, great fights and great moments in boxing. The late Hank Kaplan, who wrote Boxing Digest on his own for many years, was a walking encyclopedia of the fighters […]
RCM Historical Boxing: A Kaleidoscope of Boxing Sugars By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ramos, Sugar Ray Hammond, Sugar Ray Seales, Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Shane Mosley, Bert Sugar, Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr. (Anthony Small), Sugar Shay (Ishe) Smith, and Suga (not Sugar) Rashad Evans. Of these Sugars, […]
Cassius Clay Dynamite By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Today he is known as Muhammad Ali AKA The Greatest, the retired former world heavyweight champion, and a man of few words. Long before that, in the era known as the 1960’s, he rose toprominence as a rhyming poet who called […]
The Life and Times of Duane Thomas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Detroit Kronk gym light middleweight Duane Thomas (1961-2000) is today just one of the many boxers of the past who have come and went and are completely forgottenin the winds of time. A World Boxing Council World Light […]
RCM Historical Boxing Light Heavyweight Beethaeven Scottland Remembered By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Undefeated George Khalid Jones, then 15-0, Paterson, New Jersey, was never supposed to fight Beethaeven Scottland. The intended opponent for his 10 round light heavyweight bout on June 26, 2001, on the U.S.S. Intrepid in New York […]
Andre The Giant versus Chuck Wepner: An RCM Historical Look Back By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Boxer versus wrestler on June 26,1976, and it was real. Chuck Wepner, The Bayonne Bleeder, who made it to the 15th round with Muhammad Ali, fought Andre the Giant, in a preliminary […]
Jack Johnson versus Frank Moran, World Heavyweight Title in Paris, June 1914 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent One hundred years ago, Jack Johnson, ‘The Galveston Giant’, made the last defense of his world heavyweight title, decisioning Frank Moran in 20 rounds in Paris, France, on June 27, 1914. The referee […]
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