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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Would Joe Louis Would Have beaten Tyson Fury? A Critical Analysis. Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent With lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury’s upcoming bout with 20-0 unbeaten Swedish heavyweight prospect Otto Wallin coming up, this reporter suddenly considered an amazing subconscious riddle, Joe Louis, which Fury had already […]
La Mantequilla, WBC Welterweight Champion Jose Napoles of Mexico, Dies at 79 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Cuidad Juarez, Mexico (August 17th, 2019)– Jose ‘La Mantequilla’ Napoles, the longtime World Boxing Council World Welterweight champion who fought between 1958 and 1975 with a ring record of 81 wins and seven losses, […]
Estate of Tommy Morrison Nevada Lawsuit Begins Again vs. NSAC and Quest Diagnostics By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Al Bello/ALLSPORT Las Vegas, NV (August 15th, 2019)– It has been learned on August 5, 2019, administratrix Patricia Harding Morrison (widow) for the estate of the late World Heavyweight champion […]
European Middleweight Champ Jean-Claude Bouttier Dies at 74, Fought Monzon Twice By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Agence Presse-France Photo Former European Middleweight champion Jean-Claude Bouttier, who fought the legendary Carlos Monzon for the World Middleweight title twice, and who beat the likes of Emile Griffith, Jose Chirino, Juarez De […]
Fights We Cannot Imagine Ever Taking Place By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Number One: Floyd Patterson versus Rocky Marciano, George Foreman or Joe Frazier If instead of rematching Ali, Patterson instead fought Big George Foreman in an attempt to regain the world heavyweight title, it would have ended as quick as […]
Historical Look Back – Michael Spinks vs. David Sears Light Heavyweight Title Battle By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Not just a reporter, this reporter enjoys a marvelous collection of old VHS VCR videotapes, which I enjoy and relax to watching each evening before sleep. Within my collection, last night, I found […]
The Deal is Sealed! Main Events Inks Promotional Deal with Evan Holyfield Evan Holyfield Photo Credit: Hosanna Rull/Main Events Houston, TX: Today in front of a packed crowd of family, friends and fans, at the Fighter Nation Boxing Gym in Houston, Texas, hot boxing prospect Evan Holyfield announced his new promotional deal with Main Events. After talks […]
Kelly Pavlik vs. Paul Williams Mystery Middleweight Fight That Never Was *Photo Credit: Joe Makse, Plain Dealer Reporter Photo By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Rare is the old pugilistic photograph which will inspire intense thought and creative analysis for advanced interpretation. However, such was the case recently when this reporter came […]
Joshua, Never Underestimate Your Opponent, Ringside Lessons of a Lifetime Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent When ‘The Bayonne Bleeder’, bar-room brawler and liquor salesman Chuck Wepner, decked Muhammad Ali in the ninth round of their March 1975 World Heavyweight title bout in Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, Ohio, the boxing establishment, […]
Undefeated Warrior! Mysterious Career Of (25-0) World Champion Ali Raymi of Yemen By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The mysterious boxing colonel, Colonel Ali Raymi, age 41, a colonel in the Yemeni Republican Guard, was killed in 2015 from an explosion, possibly a Saudi airstrike on the Republican Guard positions in Al-Nahdeen […]
Heavyweight Smokin’ Bert Cooper Dies at 53, Took Evander Holyfield and Michael Moorer on Championships Trips to Hell *Photo Credit: Philly Boxing History By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent New York, NY (May 11th, 2019)–Pennsylvania heavyweight contender Smokin’ Bert Cooper, a Joe Frazier student protégé who took Evander Holyfield and Michael Moorer […]
Jim Thorpe and More! Baseball, Basketball and Football Players in Boxing *Photo Credit: Native American Rights Fund By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Here’s a bughouse list of football players who tried to cut it as professional boxers. To date, none of them have fought for a world heavyweight title. Jim Thorpe, […]
Finnish Boxing Coach Olli Maki, Who Fought Davey Moore For World Title, Dies at 82 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Kirkkonummi, Finland (April 11th, 2019)– Noted Finnish boxing coach Olli Maki, who won the European Amateur Lightweight title in 1957, turned pro in 1960, fought the late Davey Moore for the […]
USA Boxing Remembers the 1980 Plane Crash COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (March 14, 2019) — On March 14, 1980, the sport of amateur boxing and the world tragically lost 22 members to a plane crash near Warsaw, Poland. The fourteen boxers and eight staff members aboard the flight, which killed a total of 77 people, were […]
Hall of Fame WBA Featherweight Champion Eusebio Pedroza Dies at 62 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Panama City, Panama (March 3rd, 2019)– International Boxing Hall of Fame retired World Boxing Association World Featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza, who fought in 22 consecutive WBA world title bouts from 1978 to 1985, […]
Laugh with Robert! Ridiculous Sammy Davis Jr. vs. Wilt Comedy Bout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent YouTube has some historical gems. From the 1960’s, Roman and Martin’s Laugh-In hosted this ridiculous scene of midget-sized Sammy Davis Jr. versus tall Wilt Chamberlain. There actually have been some tall heavyweights from Jess […]
Boxing Legend, Rocky Lockridge Needs Your Help With Funeral Expenses The funeral expenses of former WBA and IBF World Super Featherweight champion Ricky ‘Rocky’ Lockridge, who died at age 60 on February 7, 2019, are sadly mostly unpaid. His family needs financial help from the general public to resolve the situation, including burial expenses, and […]
Whatever Happened to Britain’s Chris Finnegan? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Color Sport Of Irish descent, British southpaw middleweight and light heavyweight Chris Finnegan won the 1968 Olympic Gold Medal in Mexico City for Great Britain. Fighting professionally from 1968 to 1975, the native of Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, United […]
Battling Bartender Lee Savold: Doctor’s Office Mystery Photo Solved Recently, at my doctor’s office in New Jersey, this reporter was confronted with a please ‘solve the mystery’ of the boxing photo on the wall, as in who was the other fighter in the photo with Joe Louis, ‘The Brown Bomber’ who held the world heavyweight […]
Rocky Lockridge, Former Junior Lightweight World Champion, Dies at 60 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Camden, NJ (February 8th, 2019)– Former lineal world junior lightweight champion Rick ‘Rocky’ Lockridge, who gave himself and trainer Lou Duva a world title when he knocked out undefeated Roger Mayweather in 98 seconds to win […]
Unreal True Story! The Boxing Trainer Who Walked Out of His Own Grave By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: Ramon Sosa & Daily Mail Houston, Texas welterweight boxer turned gym owner and boxing coach Ramon Sosa is lucky to be alive. He walked out of his own grave. Mr. Sosa’s […]
Al Certo, Trainer of Hamsho, McGirt, and Others, Dies at 90 *Photo Credit: ‘Professor DP’ By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Newark, NJ (December 28th, 2018)– Secaucus, New Jersey, was the place where you would find Certo’s Custom Tailors, and talk boxing anytime you liked with the legendary Al ‘Certisimo’ Certo, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Pardons Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Forgiveness was a long time coming for ‘The Galveston GIant’, Jack Johnson. “Maybe one day someone will do something good for me!” noted Johnson in 1945 before fighting an exhibition against Joe Jeanette for U.S. War Bonds in 1945. […]
The Exhumation of Edwin Valero and The Blue Jeans Mystery: Was Valero Murdered? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Credit: AP News In May 2010, the body of former boxing champion Edwin Valero was exhumed on suspicion Valero was in fact murdered and strangled by the police who were holding […]
Remember Troy Waters, Who Fought Terry Norris in 1993 Round of the Year By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent *Photo Courtesy BoxRec Troy Waters, a member of the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame, has died at age 53. a native of Sydney, Australia, Waters excelled is the light middleweight (super welterweight) […]
A Tribute to James Scott, Light Heavyweight Who Called Himself Superman *Photo Credit: Emhoff Collection By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent A few years ago, while covering a live boxing event in Atlantic City, New Jersey, this reporter was approached by a gentleman who identified himself as the brother of James Scott, and […]
Flyweight Uzzy Ahmed, Best Showboat Dancer with Worst Exit Ever in Boxing History By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Many a boxer has walked the walk and talked the talk, as in trash talk. Hype and trash talk can often promote a fight better than advertising, and sell tickets and Pay-Per-View. At […]
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