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Volkanovski After UFC 333: The Long Run and the Hidden Page of DataRound five, fourth minute, Volkanovski threw the 41st left hook of the fight....
UFC 333: Volkanovski Finishes Early, Yan Wins Over Five Rounds, and Combat Sports Reprices AgeIn the first two rounds of the bantamweight title fight at UFC 333, Merab...
Eight Dimensions of Fight Analysis and a Blank Page: When Combat-Sports Content Returns 'N/A'Three in the morning in Incheon, and the report opens on screen with eight...
Three Seconds at Fontainebleau: Why Arman Tsarukyan Is Risking a UFC Title Shot on a MismatchThree seconds. That is the span between Arman Tsarukyan leaving his chair and...
Khamzat Chimaev Pushes for Sean Strickland Rematch: The Fight Rhythm Lies in the Weight Cut, Not the ScorecardsI still remember sitting in a corner of a press room after an MMA event in...
Chimaev demands a Strickland rematch: three 48-47 scorecards and a hole sitting inside the weight cutKhamzat Chimaev said he does not remember his weight cut. Not any part of it....
Jena Bishop and the inaugural belt: when a fighter wins the fight but loses on the scorecardThere is a moment in the first round that I replayed more times than I care t...
Bishop Rallies Past Carmouche to Claim PFL Crown: 48-47 and the Thinnest Margin a Title Has Ever KnownThe left hook from Liz Carmouche in the third minute of round one put Jena...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: When One Round Decides HistoryThree judges, one number: 48-47. When the result of the PFL women's flyweight...
Jena Bishop wins inaugural PFL women's flyweight title: three 48-47 cards and the first round that nearly changed historyThree cards. Three judges. One number, repeated three times: 48-47. Jena Bish...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan vs. Ruffy — Five Rounds Do Not Favor the Wrestler the Way the Crowd ThinksOne day before UFC 311, with the poster for the lightweight title fight again...
The Season Without an Off-Season: A Risk Map of Injury in Vietnamese Combat SportsThe Season Without an Off-Season: A Risk Map of Injury in Vietnamese Combat...
Farid Basharat Undefeated Yet Released by the UFC: How Finish Rate Prices an Entire CareerWhen the UFC confirmed it would not renew Farid Basharat's contract, most...
Undefeated at 16-0 and still cut: when a perfect record is no longer currencyThe bout with John Garza ended after three rounds, all three judges scored it...
16-0 and No New Contract: The UFC Prices Entertainment Above an Undefeated RecordAcross the combined 11 UFC wins of the Basharat brothers, 10 came by judges'...
Basharat's 16-0 Release: When a Win Streak Stops Being CurrencyThat night, after the referee raised his hand for the seventh time inside the...
Farid Basharat Cut by UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When a Win Streak Stops Being CurrencyThere is a moment the cameras almost always skip. After the horn closes the...
16-0 and Still Released by the UFC: The Value Equation of an Undefeated StreakIn combat sports, there is a question anyone who trains long enough must...
Professional Martial Arts Has Been Decoded by Data: When a Two-Centimeter Gap Decides a Whole CareerSummer 2026, I said something that made the whole industry laugh in my face....
When Combat Sports Analyses Itself With Empty CellsAt three in the morning in Tokyo, I opened an eight-page analysis of the comb...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Sal Everett Earns UFC Contract With First-Round KnockoutSal Everett, personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, has officially...
Vietnamese Combat Sports Enter an Industrialization Cycle: Big Opportunities, Fragile FoundationsVIETNAMESE COMBAT SPORTS ENTER AN INDUSTRIALIZATION CYCLE: BIG OPPORTUNITIES,...
The Empty File: The Data Gap Eroding Professional Combat SportsTwo forty-seven in the morning. The doping file sat in the old hard drive of ...
Amid Combat-Sports Signing Noise, the Beat Keeper Trusts Only PaperworkIn a back corridor of a combat-sports event in Guangzhou, a big screen ran th...
Martial Arts Is Not One Sport: The Trap of the Empty AnalysisOn the night of November 12, 2026, I sat in front of a screen in a coffee sho...
UFC 332: Nine First-Round Knockouts and the Injury Trail Across Eleven BodiesAt 2:32 of the first round, Deiveson Figueiredo folded to the canvas. The...
The Injury Map of Vietnamese Martial Arts: When the Winner Must Relearn How to Stand UpIn May 2026, at the SEA Games 31 boxing arena in Bac Ninh, I sat in stand B...
1,919 Words, Not One Fact: How Martial Arts Is Selling Out Its Own InformationLast week I did something my colleagues in Tokyo called pointless: I fed a...
No VAR on the Ring: When a 118-110 Scorecard Decides a CareerOn the night of September 16, 2026, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the cheer...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After Health Scare: When Age 39 Meets the 135-Pound DivisionOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the UFC Figh...
Barcelos Collapses in Round Five: The Exclamation Mark of a 39-Year-Old VeteranSaturday night in Las Vegas, when the referee waved off the fight in the fift...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: Where a 39-Year-Old Fighter Meets His LimitRound five. The clock on the big screen in Las Vegas crossed the fourth minut...
Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher in Round Five: The Real Limit of a 39-Year-Old VeteranWhen the fifth round began, I wrote a single line in my notebook: this fight...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round 5 TKO: Age 39 and 27 Fights Under the Las Vegas LightsThe fifth round of the Las Vegas main event had just passed its midpoint when...
The Global MMA Championship Map: When a Belt Is No Longer Measured by the Same RulerOne late evening, I sat in a studio in Chengdu with a list of more than forty...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan, Mauricio Ruffy and the Variable the Market Refuses to PriceAt Crypto.com Arena, when the Round 1 bell sounded, the betting board still...
UFC 331: Wrestling vs. Striking, and the Variable Nobody Prices InAt Crypto.com Arena, some forty minutes before the co-main event, the corrido...
Sanyal's Sauna Collapse: When MMA Entered the Asian Games Without Its Medical CultureThere is no referee in a sauna. No ringside doctor, no bell, no one to call a...
Lo Thi Phung and the Costly ASIAD Loss: When Fitness Choked a DreamLo Thi Phung and the Costly ASIAD Loss: When Fitness Choked a Dream At the...
UFC 333: Volkanovski Finishes Early, Yan Wins Over Five Rounds, and Combat Sports Reprices AgeIn the first two rounds of the bantamweight title fight at UFC 333, Merab...
Eight Dimensions of Fight Analysis and a Blank Page: When Combat-Sports Content Returns 'N/A'Three in the morning in Incheon, and the report opens on screen with eight...
Three Seconds at Fontainebleau: Why Arman Tsarukyan Is Risking a UFC Title Shot on a MismatchThree seconds. That is the span between Arman Tsarukyan leaving his chair and...
Khamzat Chimaev Pushes for Sean Strickland Rematch: The Fight Rhythm Lies in the Weight Cut, Not the ScorecardsI still remember sitting in a corner of a press room after an MMA event in...
Chimaev demands a Strickland rematch: three 48-47 scorecards and a hole sitting inside the weight cutKhamzat Chimaev said he does not remember his weight cut. Not any part of it....
Jena Bishop and the inaugural belt: when a fighter wins the fight but loses on the scorecardThere is a moment in the first round that I replayed more times than I care t...
Bishop Rallies Past Carmouche to Claim PFL Crown: 48-47 and the Thinnest Margin a Title Has Ever KnownThe left hook from Liz Carmouche in the third minute of round one put Jena...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: When One Round Decides HistoryThree judges, one number: 48-47. When the result of the PFL women's flyweight...
Jena Bishop wins inaugural PFL women's flyweight title: three 48-47 cards and the first round that nearly changed historyThree cards. Three judges. One number, repeated three times: 48-47. Jena Bish...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan vs. Ruffy — Five Rounds Do Not Favor the Wrestler the Way the Crowd ThinksOne day before UFC 311, with the poster for the lightweight title fight again...
The Season Without an Off-Season: A Risk Map of Injury in Vietnamese Combat SportsThe Season Without an Off-Season: A Risk Map of Injury in Vietnamese Combat...
Farid Basharat Undefeated Yet Released by the UFC: How Finish Rate Prices an Entire CareerWhen the UFC confirmed it would not renew Farid Basharat's contract, most...
Undefeated at 16-0 and still cut: when a perfect record is no longer currencyThe bout with John Garza ended after three rounds, all three judges scored it...
16-0 and No New Contract: The UFC Prices Entertainment Above an Undefeated RecordAcross the combined 11 UFC wins of the Basharat brothers, 10 came by judges'...
Basharat's 16-0 Release: When a Win Streak Stops Being CurrencyThat night, after the referee raised his hand for the seventh time inside the...
Farid Basharat Cut by UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When a Win Streak Stops Being CurrencyThere is a moment the cameras almost always skip. After the horn closes the...
16-0 and Still Released by the UFC: The Value Equation of an Undefeated StreakIn combat sports, there is a question anyone who trains long enough must...
Professional Martial Arts Has Been Decoded by Data: When a Two-Centimeter Gap Decides a Whole CareerSummer 2026, I said something that made the whole industry laugh in my face....
When Combat Sports Analyses Itself With Empty CellsAt three in the morning in Tokyo, I opened an eight-page analysis of the comb...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Sal Everett Earns UFC Contract With First-Round KnockoutSal Everett, personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, has officially...
Vietnamese Combat Sports Enter an Industrialization Cycle: Big Opportunities, Fragile FoundationsVIETNAMESE COMBAT SPORTS ENTER AN INDUSTRIALIZATION CYCLE: BIG OPPORTUNITIES,...
The Empty File: The Data Gap Eroding Professional Combat SportsTwo forty-seven in the morning. The doping file sat in the old hard drive of ...
Amid Combat-Sports Signing Noise, the Beat Keeper Trusts Only PaperworkIn a back corridor of a combat-sports event in Guangzhou, a big screen ran th...
Martial Arts Is Not One Sport: The Trap of the Empty AnalysisOn the night of November 12, 2026, I sat in front of a screen in a coffee sho...
UFC 332: Nine First-Round Knockouts and the Injury Trail Across Eleven BodiesAt 2:32 of the first round, Deiveson Figueiredo folded to the canvas. The...
The Injury Map of Vietnamese Martial Arts: When the Winner Must Relearn How to Stand UpIn May 2026, at the SEA Games 31 boxing arena in Bac Ninh, I sat in stand B...
1,919 Words, Not One Fact: How Martial Arts Is Selling Out Its Own InformationLast week I did something my colleagues in Tokyo called pointless: I fed a...
No VAR on the Ring: When a 118-110 Scorecard Decides a CareerOn the night of September 16, 2026, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the cheer...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After Health Scare: When Age 39 Meets the 135-Pound DivisionOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the UFC Figh...
Barcelos Collapses in Round Five: The Exclamation Mark of a 39-Year-Old VeteranSaturday night in Las Vegas, when the referee waved off the fight in the fift...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: Where a 39-Year-Old Fighter Meets His LimitRound five. The clock on the big screen in Las Vegas crossed the fourth minut...
Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher in Round Five: The Real Limit of a 39-Year-Old VeteranWhen the fifth round began, I wrote a single line in my notebook: this fight...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round 5 TKO: Age 39 and 27 Fights Under the Las Vegas LightsThe fifth round of the Las Vegas main event had just passed its midpoint when...
The Global MMA Championship Map: When a Belt Is No Longer Measured by the Same RulerOne late evening, I sat in a studio in Chengdu with a list of more than forty...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan, Mauricio Ruffy and the Variable the Market Refuses to PriceAt Crypto.com Arena, when the Round 1 bell sounded, the betting board still...
UFC 331: Wrestling vs. Striking, and the Variable Nobody Prices InAt Crypto.com Arena, some forty minutes before the co-main event, the corrido...
Sanyal's Sauna Collapse: When MMA Entered the Asian Games Without Its Medical CultureThere is no referee in a sauna. No ringside doctor, no bell, no one to call a...
Lo Thi Phung and the Costly ASIAD Loss: When Fitness Choked a DreamLo Thi Phung and the Costly ASIAD Loss: When Fitness Choked a Dream At the...
