Marvin Johnson versus Galindez: Mechanics of Counter Right By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxHcb4cJco Critical historical look backs often reveal technique and game plan can override style and boxing ability in many cases. The case in point this reporter wishes to cite is Marvin Johnson versus the late Victor […]
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RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Most Ridiculous Boxing Match Ever Held
Most Ridiculous Boxing Match Ever Held By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBnZoWqt6A Bol versus Perry, May 2, 2002. Commentary by Chris Rose and Ray ‘Boom’ Mancini. A frequent question I entertain as a sports reporter is what was the worst or most ridiculous boxing match ever held? My response […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Billy Conn’s Brilliant Game Plan on Joe Louis, and Where He Went Wrong
Billy Conn’s Brilliant Game Plan on Joe Louis, and Where He Went Wrong By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The world heavyweight title bout between Joe Louis and Billy Conn, their first meeting at the Polo Grounds in New York City on June 18, 1941, remains one of the top […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Mark Holmes versus John Collins, Long Lost Middleweight Mystery Fight
Mark Holmes versus John Collins, Long Lost Middleweight Mystery Fight By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent From time to time, this reporter leaves the present, and goes back in the historical time machine to understand the past. On August 3, 1985, Mark Holmes battled John Collins in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Pernell Sweet Pea Whitaker, Defensive Wizard of Welterweights
Pernell Sweet Pea Whitaker, Defensive Wizard of Welterweights By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent As reporter, I finally ran into Pernell ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker while covering as boxing card in Atlantic City at The Tropicana. Pernell being older now, he is a shadow of the great fighter who once was. Pernell […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Heavyweight Contender Roy Harris, Barefoot Boxer From Cut and Shoot Texas
Heavyweight Contender Roy Harris, Barefoot Boxer From Cut and Shoot Texas By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Four time Texas State Golden Gloves champion Roy Harris won the Texas Olympic Trials in 1952, and later won the Texas State and Southern Heavyweight titles as a professional. A four year […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Whatever happened to Heavyweight Larry Donald?
Whatever happened to Heavyweight Larry Donald? By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent There were several name heavyweights of recent memory who reached success in the ring and the ratings, but never won a world title or realized their full championship potential. Some names which come to mind first and foremost […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Long Lost Jack Dempsey Boxing Film Found at Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame
Long Lost Jack Dempsey Boxing Film is Found at Las Vegas Pinball Hall of Fame By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent At The Pinball Hall of Fame at 1610 East Tropicana Avenue, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the back of the center pinball aisle of pinball machines, there is a wood […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison’s Japanese Mystery Fight
Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison’s Japanese Mystery Fight By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent On November 3, 1996, former world heavyweight champion Tommy ‘The Duke’ Morrison fought what was intended to be his final fight. Morrison had been in training for a month, after not fighting for a year. Tommy had lost to […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Prince Naseem Hamed, All-Time Featherweight Electric Presence!
Prince Naseem Hamed, All-Time Featherweight Electric Presence! By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Prince Naseem Hamed Career Highlights As both boxing journalist and boxing historian, this reporter looks at the flow of bouts over a professional fighter’s career, and also at the charisma and energy the fighter brings to promote the sport […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: SCOTT CANIPE’S TOP 5 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS OF ALL TIME
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Gene Fullmer Never Forgot Sugar Ray Robinson’s Left Hook
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. […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Sensational Hooliganism! Boxing Brawl at the Sydney Opera House
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Iron Mike Tyson’s Ten Moments of Madness By Robert Brizel
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Are Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Jack Dempsey The Most Overrated Fighters?
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 […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Sensational Sam Langford, The Boston Tar Baby
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Remembering Harold Johnson, Light Heavyweight Champion
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Remembering Italian Heavyweight Lorenzo Zanon, A Historical Look Back
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 […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Ali-Liston II Boxing Gloves Auction of the Century
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Whatever Happened To Rock Newman?
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Whatever Happened To Marvelous Marvin Hagler?
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Sonny Liston versus Old Mongoose Archie Moore Heavyweight Title Dream Fight
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Mysterious Billy Smith, The Dirtiest Fighter Who Ever Lived
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 […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Whatever Happened To The Jersey Jolter, Frankie De Paula?
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
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, […]
RCM Historical Boxing: Cassius Clay Dynamite
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: The Life and Times of Duane Thomas
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
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 […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Thomas Hit Man Hearns Greatest Hits of The Ring
Thomas Hit Man Hearns Greatest Hits of The Ring By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent Between 1977 and 2006, Thomas ‘Hit Man’ Hearns of Detroit, Michigan compiled a professional record of 61-5-1, with 48 knockouts, with a 71 percent knockout ratio. Many of his fights were memorable, such as his battles […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Jack Johnson versus Frank Moran, World Heavyweight Title in Paris, June 1914
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 […]
NFL Heavyweight Boxer Chuck Powell Dies, Fought Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson
NFL Heavyweight Boxer Chuck Powell Dies, Fought Muhammad Ali and Floyd Patterson By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent Charlie ‘Chuck’ Powell, perhaps the greatest all-around athlete ever to come out of San Diego, California, who was a star in the National Football League, and for a time a world ranked professional heavyweight boxer, […]
RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Trump Plaza to Close September 16, Remembering Roberto Duran Versus Iran Barkley in 1991
Trump Plaza to Close September 16, Remembering Roberto Duran Versus Barkley in 1991 By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent With additional commentary on the impact of the closure of the Atlantic City casino resorts NJTV News Trump Plaza Report https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qFwVu91yR8 Within the next 15 days, three Atlantic City Hotel Casinos are going to […]