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The Empty Chair at the Weigh-In: Southeast Asian Combat Sports and the Numbers Nobody CountsIn March 2026, at a makeshift weigh-in room behind the Chiang Mai night marke...
UFC 336 books interim welterweight title fight: Prates meets Morales while Makhachev sits out over RamadanAt 5:40 in the morning, a small gym at the end of an alley in Nha Trang has...
Bergs, Nadal, Dakar and Jon Jones: Four Ways Sport Prices a MomentZizou Bergs answered with one short sentence, and that sentence outlived the...
Jena Bishop Wins PFL Women's Flyweight Title: The Belt Hangs on a 48-47 CalculationRound one ended with Jena Bishop rising off the canvas on unsteady legs. Liz...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: When One 10-8 Round Could Erase a ChampionThree judges walked into the meeting room after the fight with three identica...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: Four Minutes of Back Control, One Unscored 10-8Four minutes into the fifth round, Jena Bishop was on Liz Carmouche's back....
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: Scorecards, Not Wins, Repriced a Roster SlotAcross the 11 UFC victories belonging to the Basharat brothers, the judges we...
UFC 332: Nine First-Round Knockouts and the Matchmaking Nobody ScoresEsteban Ribovics landed at 4:08 of the first round. King Green went down, the...
UFC Cuts an Undefeated 16-0 Fighter: Three Scorecards and an Empty Roster SlotThree judges' scorecards, one identical line. No early bell, no opponent on t...
Farid Basharat went 16-0 and still got cut: when winning stops being currency in the UFCI re-watched Farid Basharat's fight against John Garza four times in two days...
16-0 and Still Cut: When the UFC Prices Entertainment, Not WinsThere was an evening when I sat alone in the edit room, rewinding the tape of...
Undefeated at 16-0 and Still Cut by the UFC: When a Perfect Record Stops Being CurrencyOn Thursday, Farid Basharat confirmed he is leaving the UFC. He is 29 years...
Farid Basharat exits UFC despite a 16-0 record: when a perfect record is no longer roster insuranceOf the eleven UFC wins belonging to the Basharat brothers, ten ended in a...
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: When Winning Stops Being CurrencyIn a video less than two minutes long, Farid Basharat did not raise a belt, d...
UFC lets Farid Basharat walk despite a 16-0 record: the finish rate that repriced a careerAfter the final bell of the third round against John Garza, Farid Basharat...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC at 16-0: when a perfect record stops being currency inside the OctagonBangkok, 3 a.m. I rewind the tape of Farid Basharat's unanimous-decision win...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Built on Nine Minutes of Control and a Single Deducted PointIn the 22nd minute of the fight, when Christian Leroy Duncan had nowhere left...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan at UFC: When the Controller Beats the StrikerIn the fifth round, as Christian Leroy Duncan was still trying to maintain...
Two Bouts in Three Weeks: Arman Tsarukyan's Physical Gamble at RAF Abu DhabiOn October 23, Arman Tsarukyan competed at RAF 14. On November 14, he compete...
RAF Abu Dhabi card revealed: Arman Tsarukyan faces Neiman Gracie, Kennedy Blades defends title against Bella MirReal American Freestyle (RAF) has unveiled the fight card for RAF Abu Dhabi,...
Sal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with KnockoutSal Everett, a 29-year-old welterweight, has officially earned a UFC contract...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Scores Knockout, Earns UFC ContractDana White's Personal Assistant Scores Knockout, Earns UFC Contract Las Vegas...
Three Combat Families, Three Rulesets: Why MMA, Boxing and Sanda Need Separate DataOne evening at a martial arts gym in Hai Phong, I listened to two men argue...
The 'martial arts' label is eroding analysis: when writers don't know which sport they are coveringIn November 2026, in a small studio in Incheon, I opened an internal brief se...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: The Concussion Math Behind a Six-Month ReturnLast June in Las Vegas, Alex Pereira went down in the second round against...
39 Years Old, a Stretcher and a Fifth Round: Raoni Barcelos Leaves the Las Vegas Cage in SilenceI watched the clip three times, rewound it twice, and each time I stopped on...
Raoni Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher in Round 5: The Medical Verdict Has Not Been Read YetRaoni Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher in Round 5: The Medical Verdict H...
Barcelos leaves the cage on a stretcher at 39: The fifth round says more than the scorecardA stretcher appeared next to the octagon in Las Vegas. Raoni Barcelos, a...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: When 39 Leaves No Room to Pay the PriceRaoni Barcelos did not walk out of the cage on his own two feet. He left on a...
Raoni Barcelos: An Eight-Year Debt Paid in the Fifth RoundBy the fifth round of the Las Vegas main event, Raoni Barcelos was still...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round-5 TKO: Decoding the Signals From a 39-Year-Old Fighter's BodyThe stretcher rolled into the middle of the octagon Las Vegas, early Sunday...
The 77 kg Scale in Aichi-Nagoya: Sanyal's Weight-Cut Incident and the Governance Gap20:14, September 20, 2026 The plastic chair beside the dry sauna door in the...
Asiad 20, September 20: Vietnam's Two Bronzes, Thailand's Three Golds, and Bui Ngoc Nhi's Path Through the RepechageThe Quiet Tatami in Aichi On the tatami in Aichi, the referee raised a hand...
PFL Loses Its CEO Less Than Two Months After Merger: The 'MVP MMA' Rebrand Painted Over a TakeoverOn the night of July 30, a joint statement from Professional Fighters League...
Indian MMA fighter collapses from weight cut: A death gamble in the sauna roomThe sound of studded boots in the corridor of the Aichi-Nagoya stadium went...
Lo Thi Phung Stops at ASIAD 2026 Quarterfinal: Loss Exposes Vietnam MMA's Conditioning GapOn the evening of September 20, at the MMA arena of the ASIAD 2026 Games, the...
Asiad 20 Diary, Sept 20: Karate Kata Takes Bronze, Vietnam Martial Arts Await Signals from Changquan and SandaOn the morning of September 20, inside the Aichi-Nagoya arena, Bui Ngoc Nhi...
Asiad 20, September 20: Two Bronze Medals and the Narrow Gate They Passed ThroughThe television director fixed a camera at the left corner of the kata mat....
UFC 331: Gable Steveson's 12-Second Equation and the Unanswered Question of the Lightweight EraThe bout between Sean Sharaf and Gable Steveson lasted 12 seconds. I rewatche...
27 Reigns in 28 Years and One Vacant Belt: UFC Heavyweight History Through a Data LensOn the day Tom Aspinall was recognized as UFC heavyweight champion in June...
The Global MMA Champion Map: A One-Tier Weight Ladder and the Safety Zone Nobody NamesIn 2026, while cross-checking injury records for the Incheon United youth sid...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and a Vacancy Nobody Wants to FillPeople remember the punch. I remember the way the arena breathed. On fight...
The Data Gap in Professional Combat Sports: Weight, Money and Brains Go UnverifiedThe weigh-in room sits on the second floor of a hotel, eleven in the morning....
The Global Map of MMA Championship Belts: ONE Championship Runs 20 Pounds Heavier Than UFC, PFL Collects Ex-Bellator StarsSix organizations, more than twenty weight classes, and one question no one i...
The UFC Heavyweight Belt: 27 Title Changes and the Silence After the BellThere is a sound I have never managed to capture on a recorder, though I have...
