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RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Land of the Heavyweight Giants

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Land of the Heavyweight Giants By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent The late world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, the ‘Galveston Giant’ was shorter than the man who dethroned him in Havana, Cuba, Jess Willard. The Klitschkos, Lennox Lewis, Nikolai Valuev, Primo Carnera, and Mike White are some historical examples of the tall […]

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RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: When Boxing Was King

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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 […]

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RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Remembering Harold Johnson, Light Heavyweight Champion

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    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 […]

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RCM HISTORICAL BOXING: Rocky Marciano on the Scorecards When He Beat Jersey Joe Walcott For The Title

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  Rocky Marciano on the Scorecards When He Beat Jersey Joe Walcott For The Title By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent When Rocky Marciano fought Jersey Joe Walcott for the world heavyweight title at Municipal Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1952, Rocky weighed a cruiserweight 194 ½ pounds to Walcott’s 196 ½ […]

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