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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When Boxing Was King By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sportswriter Robert Brizel’s education with boxing history today centers around boxing’s most famous emotional ‘relationship’, good, indifferent or otherwise. Muhammad Ali and Smokin’ Joe Frazier are no longer with us. Many other famous heavyweight names have slipped into the […]
Howard Bingham, Muhammad Ali’s Photographer and Best Friend, Dies at 77 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Sports Illustrated and Life Magazine photographer Howard Bingham, who devoted much of his life to photographing the boxer known as Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali and was his best friend, has died after […]
Rocky Marciano, Brizel’s Best Boxing Role Model Ever. Here’s Why By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Of all boxers past and present, it is my view Rocky Marciano was the best role model of all time to youth and people, and also the best public speaker ever of all boxers […]
Muhammad Ali and Aaron Pryor Jr., Goodbye to The Greatest and The Hawk By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Muhammad Ali, AKA ‘The Greatest’ was heavyweight champion of the world. Aaron Pryor Jr., AKA ‘The Hawk’, was the junior welterweight champion of the world. Ali and Pryor, now gone, were two […]
AARON PRYOR PASSES AWAY We are heartbroken and sad to announce that our beloved Aaron passed away at home surrounded by his family at 5:57am Sunday, October 9, 2016 after a long battle with heart disease. He was known around the world as The Hawk but to our family he was a beloved husband, father, […]
Muhammad Ali versus Wilt Chamberlain Declined: A Ridiculous Concept By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Muhammad Ali, back in the day, engaged in some loco boxing exhibitions which are best forgotten. Ali versus hockey player Dave Semenko. Ali versus football player Lyle Alzado. Ali versus wrestler Rocky Inoki. Ali versus Rocky Marciano […]
Ex-WBC Champ Bobby Chacon, Great Warrior, Dies at Age 64 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Former World Boxing Council Featherweight and Super Featherweight champion Bobby ‘Schoolboy’ Chacon, who battled Ruben Olivares, Danny Lopez, Alexis Arguello, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, Rafael Bazooka Limon, Freddie Roach, Arturo Frias, Rafael Solis, and Ray Mancini […]
Happy Birthday Earnie Shavers! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On August 31, 2016, heavyweight knockout artist Earnie Shavers turned 71 years old. Shavers is a great survivor, whose career went up and down over the years. One view has it when he got the big opportunities and did not […]
Whatever Happened to Gus Ruhlin? The Akron Giant Rediscovered A Century Later By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Gus Ruhlin was a heavyweight contender best known over a century ago for the popular Brooklyn café he and his wife ran frequented by present and past fighters. Of his 43 professional […]
Whatever Happened to Ken Norton? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In 1977, Ken Norton was the only heavyweight to be awarded the world heavyweight title, after winning a split decision 15 in a WBC eliminator bout, when he received the World Boxing Council World Heavyweight title in 1978 after […]
Where’s Ringo? Unraveling The Oscar Bonavena Mustang Ranch Mystery By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The iconic image of Muhammad Ali standing over Oscar Bonavena at Madison Square Garden after knocking him down three times in the 15th round remains a classic. Back then, it remained hard to believe any […]
Wanted: Dead or Alive. Sweet Jimmy Robinson, Boxing Mystery Man By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing correspondent ‘Sweet Jimmy’ Robinson is boxing’s heavyweight mystery man. Born in either 1924 or 1925, his whereabouts are forever unknown making him boxing’s mystery man. If Robinson is still alive somewhere, he would be 91 […]
Whatever Happened to Cleveland Big Cat Williams, Who Fought Ali in 1966? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Between December 1951 and October 1972, Cleveland ‘Big Cat’ Williams was one of the most respected heavyweight boxers in the name game. His professional record was 78-13-1 with 58 knockouts, a respectable […]
George Chuvalo to Malcolm X to Muhammad Ali Connection: Dark Side of the Moon By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s George Chuvalo on Sonny Liston taking a dive On May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine, Charles ‘Sonny’ Liston took a dive in the first round of his rematch […]
An Open Response to Panama Lewis Video Statements: You Dirty Cheater By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Panama+Lewis+p1 Watching the above 2008 boxingconfidential.com video clip of an interview with Carlos ‘Panama’ Lewis expressing sympathy for the loss of Billy Collins Jr. to his family made this reporter disgusted. The […]
True Ending of Alexis Arguello, and Why: What Happened? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent It has been seven years since Alexis Arguello, the legendary three division champion and mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, was found dead in his home on July 1, 2009. Speculation persists as to whether Arguello was […]
Good Night, Mr. Dynamite. Say Da Poem Prayer for Michael ‘Dynamite’ Dokes By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Life in the ring is a give and take subconscious perpetual war Until you mind, body and soul just cannot take it any more Mind and body at some point will cease […]
Mike Weaver Interview Part III: Inside South Africa, Coetzee, Dokes, and More. By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In part three in a series of interviews with former World Boxing Association World Heavyweight champion Mike ‘Hercules’ Weaver, we got inside South Africa, where Weaver defending his WBA title successfully by […]
Worst Heavyweight Championship Bout After A Car Accident By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Among the most unique and challenging questions posed, have there been major boxing matches held after one of the scheduled participants was injured in a car accident? The first reaction would be such a bout would have […]
Mike Weaver Interview II: My View on Steroids, Rio Olympics XXXI, Wilder vs. Povetkin By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent In a Real Combat Media international interview exclusive, former World Boxing Association World Heavyweight champion Mike ‘Hercules’ Weaver, commenting from his home in California, spoke out on the controversy of […]
GGG vs. Kell Brook UK Middleweight Bout-Carlos Monzon vs. Jose Napoles Connection By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent ‘The Special One’, Kell Brook, the undefeated International Boxing Federation World Welterweight champion from Sheffield, United Kingdom, is going boldly where almost no man has gone before. The welterweight champion is going […]
Tommy Morrison and the House of Numbers Editorial By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Editor’s note: This story is written by Robert Brizel and does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Real Combat Media and it’s editorial staff. In the award winning 2009 HIV / AIDS documentary ‘The House […]
The Last Ring Days of Sugar Ray Robinson By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late great former world welterweight and middleweight champion Walker Smith Jr., better known as Sugar Ray Robinson, stood for an excellence in the ring which may never be surpassed. Between 1940 and 1965, Robinson won […]
Happy Birthday, Mike Weaver By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Mike Weaver Career Highlights Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui61f3wQODo On Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Mike ‘Hercules’ Weaver turned 65 years old. Mike’s career spanned 60 pro fights between 1972 and 2000. With a record of 48 wins, 18 losses and one draw, […]
The Rise and Fall of Lehlo Ledwaba, World Champion Haunted by Memories of Pacquiao By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Lehlo’ Hands of Stone’ Ledwaba fought in ten world title bouts, yet his name is unknown on the radar. A native of Soweto, South Africa, Ledwaba holds a unique historical claim to […]
A Tribute Poem for Smokin’ Joe Frazier By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Float like a smoking cannon, sting like a tree Smokin’ Joe Frazier’s soul be free The trees and the leaves blow with the season Ali’s there and I’m gone. What’s the reason? Left hook, right hook, […]
When A Boxing Picture is Worth a Thousand Words By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent As the sands of time passes, The Ring Record Book and online boxing records websites will keep track of the events in sports which pass by. As time distances from sporting events which occurred, the […]
The Fightin’ Kentuckian, Marvin Hart By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent He fought as a professional from 1899 to 1910. This article puts the spotlight on one of the most obscure world heavyweight champions, The Fightin’ Kentuckian, Marvin Hart. Born is Fern Creek, Kentucky, where he lived his […]
Amazing Boxing Bizzarro Brothers of Erie Pa. By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There are many boxing brothers, too numerous to mention, from Max and Buddy Baer, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Robbie Simms, to Jermell and Jermall Charlo. More than two? You could try former World Heavyweight champion Mike Weaver the […]
Jimmy Young’s Heavyweight Defensive Gems By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late Philadelphia defensive stylist heavyweight contender Jimmy Young (1948-2005) fought 55 pro bouts between 1969 and 1988. It dawned on this reporter to take a historical look at Young’s heyday in his prime in the 1970’s to see who […]
Barney Ross, Boxer Who Worked For Gangster Al Capone By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Even when you work for Al Capone……………….No Man Stands Alone. Besides that line being the title of his autobiography, Barney Ross was much more than a boxing champion. He was the solid chin boxer in the era […]
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