Sean Sharaf knocked out -2400 favorite Gable Steveson in 12 seconds and Arman Tsarukyan starched Mauricio Ruffy to stake his title claim at UFC 331. Full card results, Joshua Van's title defense, and video from Los Angeles.
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Everyone made weight for UFC 331. Full tale-of-the-tape breakdowns, film study, betting odds, and video from the Countdown special, press conference and weigh-in for Van vs. Pantoja 2 at Crypto.com Arena.
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PrizeFightingTV Signs Ike Ibeabuchi to Fight Oliver McCall if 12,500 Fans Go PPV By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Lagos, Nigeria (September 17th, 2026)– Goes the nursery English nursery rhyme penned in the 1840s, ‘Here we go ’round the mulberry bush, so early in the morning.” PrizeFightingTV, out of Lagos, Nigeria, in […]
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Jean Silva overcame a bizarre opening round to submit Jose Miguel Delgado in the third and headline Noche UFC. Full card results, bonuses, and video highlights from Desert Diamond Arena.
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Tom Aspinall has vacated the UFC heavyweight title after nearly a year of eye injury complications. Inside the UFC 321 eye poke, the surgeries, his public falling out with Dana White, and Eddie Hearn's role in the saga.
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This section is for all content by Robert Brizel, who is a Real Combat Media Head Boxing Correspondent.
Fortuna Scores First Round Kayo of Zamudio, Eyes WBA Champ Nicholas Walters By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Atlantic City, NJ (April 20,2013)– In a brutal display of punching power, interim World Boxing Association Featherweight champion Javier Fortuna of La Romana, Dominican Republic, scored his sixteenth knockout in 22 wins […]
Timothy Bradley versus Juan Manuel Marquez For September 2013 is on Box Rec By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent According to Timothy Bradley’s manager Cameron Dunkin, the Bradley camp knows nothing about a fight between Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez. Promoter Bob Arum could have jumped the gun a wee […]
Talking Boxing with Robert Brizel , Sleeping Giants in The Heavyweight Division, Steroids and More By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Right now, nobody is making any noise in the heavyweight division. Nobody seems to care about the Klitschkos. Are the Klitschkos the best fighters in the heavyweight division? Yes […]
Buena Fortuna! Sampson Boxing Eyes Walters Unification Bout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Atlantic City, NJ (April 14th, 2013)– Buena Fortuna! That’s Spanish for good fortune. One more big win, and promoter Sampson Liewkowicz and Sampson Boxing are most certainly back and in the mix! Samson seeks to slay Goliath […]
26-0 Cedric Agnew Wins USBA Light Heavyweight Title, Eyes B-Hop By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New Buffalo, Michigan (April 14th, 2013)– With blinding hand split and an impenetrable defense, southpaw sensation Cedric Agnew won every round on April 13, 2013, at Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo, Michigan, to win […]
Rigondeaux Confirms Mythical Status Beating Donaire in Poorly Scored Bout By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (April 14th, 2013)– Cuban southpaw WBO and WBA World Bantamweight champion Guillermo Rigondeaux has confirmed his mythical status by dealing Nonito Donaire his first loss in 12 years by 12 round decision […]
25-0 Marcus Oliveira of Wisconsin is Don King’s Light Heavyweight Wild Card By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Marcus Oliveira, a 25-0 Light Heavyweight contender from Wisconsin, is Don King’s Light Heavyweight wild card. With Tavoris Cloud losing to Bernard Hopkins, Don King, Oliveira is Don King’s best chance to challenge Bernard […]
Could Floyd Be Next? New NABF Champion Paul Spadafora Reaches 48-0-1 By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (April 12th, 2013)– New North American Boxing Federation Super Lightweight champion Paul ‘The Pittsburgh Kid’ Spadafora has accomplished as a southpaw a feat rarely realized in professional boxing. Paul Spadafora is […]
South African Heavyweight Johnny Du Plooy Dies at Age 48 By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Gauteng, South Africa (April 12, 2013)– In the second such South African heavyweight tragedy since former WBO World Heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders was killed in a robbery attempt in September 2012, South African […]
Chuck Wepner is The Real Rocky Balboa RCM HISTORICAL BOXING By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Chuck Wepner, the little big man known as ‘The Bayonne Bleeder’, Wepner compiled a career record of 35-14-2 with 17 knockouts during his career as a professional from 1964 to 1978. Win some and lose some. Wepner paid […]
Harry Greb, The Pittsburgh Windmill of Boxing Legend RCM HISTORICAL BOXING By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Harry Greb has been gone for 86 years. Despite that, his name has survived the test of boxing time. Born Edward Henry Greb in 1894, died in 1926, the 32 year old middleweight Greb was a […]
The Truth Be Known: Carl The Truth Williams Dies at Age 53 By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (April 8th, 2013)– Former world heavyweight contender turned Verizon security guard Carl ‘The Truth’ Williams, best remembered for his bouts with Iron Mike Tyson, Larry Holmes, Mike Weaver, Tommy Morrison, Tim […]
The Strange Boxing Case of Bob Hazelton, Boxing’s First Steroids Victim By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM BOXING HISTORICAL ARTICLE Tall London heavyweight Bob Hazelton, who fought professionally as a boxer from 1966 to 1980, and then went on to become a weightlifter and bodybuilder, was truly boxing’s first victim of anabolic […]
Hard Luck Russian Fighter Nugaev Upsets 19-0 Maicelo on ESPN By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Hard working but unheralded Russian lightweight fighter Rustam Nugaev scored one of televised boxing’s biggest upsets of 2013 thus far with a fantastic eighth round knockout of 19-0 Peruvian prospect Jonathan Maicelo. Nugaev, inactive for […]
Stop The Guns! Guerrero, Guns, Ghosts and Stupidity Are Ruining Boxing By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent After Robert ‘The Ghost’ Guerrero’s arrest at JFK Airport in New York City on March 28, 2013, for gun possession nearly put the pending WBC World Welterweight title bout on May 4 MGM Brand Garden Arena […]
Tito Bracero Wins, Eyes Winner of Garcia versus Judah Bout By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (April 5th, 2013)– In the featured bout of a nine bout prospects boxing card promoted by DiBella Entertainment at Roseland Ballroom in New York City on April 5, 2013, broadcast on […]
Yuri Foreman is Still Alive, Wins on SportsNet By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (April 5th, 2013)– In the main event of a SportsNet nine bout card at Roseland Ballroom in New York City televised on tape delay on Thursday night, April 4, 2013, promoted by Lou DiBella Entertainment, […]
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Young? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM Historical Boxing Smokin’ Joe Frazier is not the only Philly boxer of note buried in Philadelphia. A quiet tombstone in Mount Peace Cemetery shows an inscribed face with boxing gloves on both sides of the face. As time fades the […]
Dynamite Karl Dargan Could Be The Next Lightweight Superstar By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY ( April 4th, 2013)– With Edwin Valero no longer with us, and Adrien Broner having departed the lightweight division for Paulie Malignaggi and higher weight skies, Karl ‘Dynamite’ Dargan could be and should be the […]
Ronson Frank Wins Comeback in Quiet Card By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent- Ringside New York, NY (March 28th, 2013)– Light heavyweight prospect Ronson Frank made a successful comeback after more than two years inactivity due to contractual disputes with the O’Shea Brothers, scoring a second round stoppage of limited Sharif […]
Gennady Golovkin versus Nobihiro Ishida WBA IBO Fight Preview By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Monte Carlo, Monaco (March 27, 2013)– World Boxing Association and International Boxing Organization World Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan will defend his world titles against Japanese challenger Nobuhiro Ishida in the main event on March 30, […]
Reapplying David Haye To The Heavyweight Mix By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent London, UK (March 27, 2013)– Now that David ‘Hayemaker’ Haye, 32, has reapplied to the British Boxing Board of Control to have a boxing license issued to him in 2013, an assessment must be made as to where David […]
Banner Promotions Signs Welterweight Prospect Cornelius Whitlock For ESPN By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent New York, NY (March 26th, 2013)– Former Maryland Golden Gloves Amateur Champion Cornelius Whitlock, now 1-0-1 with one knockout, has signed with Banner Promotions, and will appear on the ESPN undercard on March 29, 2013 in Turning […]
Boxing’s Ghetto Wizard, Benny Leonard By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSxreC59N9c New York, NY( March 25th, 2013)– In This Corner, Benny Leonard, ESPN six minute career highlight film on YouTube Benny Leonard, ‘The Ghetto Wizard’ ranks eighth in Ring’s Magazine’s list if the 80 best fighters of the past 80 years, […]
Stevenson Gets Revenge on Bell Centre Card, Readies For Chad Dawson By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Correspondent Montrael, Canada (March 24th, 2013)– In two important bouts which took place at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Friday evening, March 22, 2013, Canadian light heavyweight contenders Adonis Stevenson and Eleider Alvarez […]
Heavyweight Robert Helenius Fighting Through Right Hand Injury By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Magdeburg, Germany (March 24, 2013)– Swedish heavyweight fighter Robert Helenius, ‘The Nordic Nightmare’, has reached an overhyped 19-0 with 11 knockouts. Once touted as the one man to beat Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko, and Alexander Povetkin, […]
IBO Champ King Kong Agbeko Back in The Bantamweight Mix By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Accra, Ghana (March 23, 2013)– Joseph ‘King Kong’ Agbeko is back, with a a 12 round unanimous decision win over Luis Melendez of Columbia at Accra Sports Stadium in Accra, Ghana, on Friday, March […]
Edwin Valero versus Adrien Broner Dream Fight, Using Demarco Factor By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent RCM Fantasy Boxing With all the hype coming up surrounding Adrien Broner’s step up to welterweight to challenge Paulie Malignaggi for Malignaggi’s World Boxing Association World Welterweight title, there’s still a few moments to ponder the dream […]
Cuban Heavyweight Odlanier Solis Beats 17-0 Larsen, Future Still Uncertain By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Berlin, Germany (March 23rd, 2013)– On Friday, March 22, 2013, Cuban Heavyweight Odlanier Solis Fonte, ranked ninth in the world on Boxrec, won a 12 round decision over 17-0 Norwegian Leif Larsen to retain his International […]
Mike Rossman’s Shining Moment By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Though his real name is Michael Albert De Piano, he was known to the world as light heavyweight boxer Mike Rossman. Rossman debuted on August 10, 1972, with a second round knockout of Stanley Dawson in Atlantic City, New Jersey. A […]
Javier Fortuna Will Knock Out Miguel Zamudio, Tropicana Fight Preview By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent Las Vegas based boxing promoter Samson Lewcowicz is planning an April 19 card featuring impressive 21-0 Dominican Southpaw Javier Fortuna versus 25-1-1 Mexican Miguel Zamudio for the interim World Boxing Association World Featherweight title currently […]
Curtis Showtime Stevens versus Derrick Findley Fight Preview By Robert Brizel, Real Combat Media Correspondent *Photo Credit: Main Events New York, NY (March 20,2013)– On April 20, 2013, at Madison Square Garden, Curtis ‘Showtime’ Stevens of Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, will fight the eight round middleweight bout against Derrick ‘Superman’ Findley of Gary, Indiana, […]
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