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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....
13cm Shorter, 36 Years Old, a Working Police Officer — Jimmie Rivera Still Stopped His Opponent in Round 4When the stands are empty, the pitch starts telling the real story. But this...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer in round four, and the class gap the spotlight hidRound four, the clock ticked to 0:46. Meyer retreated toward the ropes, hands...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Credibility Filter in Professional Combat Sports: The Work That Begins When the Data Sheet Is EmptyThat morning in Incheon was cold enough that breath froze into mist on the gy...
Velasquez Stops Lesnar at UFC 121: UFC Heavyweight Belt Changes Hands in 4:12Da Nang, nine in the morning on 24 October 2026. An old projector in a small...
Tom Aspinall Vacates UFC Title: When Eyes Become a Taxed AssetI remember that night like a scar. Not because the fight was good — it lasted...
The UFC Heavyweight Belt: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Limits of the Strongest ManThe UFC Heavyweight Belt: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Limits of the Stronge...
UFC Heavyweight: From Mark Coleman in 2026 to the Vacant Belt of 2026At three in the morning, one table was still lit at a small café on Tran Phu...
Professional Combat Sports: Why the Richest Fight Business Is the Poorest in DataThree judges sat at ringside outside the octagon in Newark on June 1, 2026,...
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....
13cm Shorter, 36 Years Old, a Working Police Officer — Jimmie Rivera Still Stopped His Opponent in Round 4When the stands are empty, the pitch starts telling the real story. But this...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer in round four, and the class gap the spotlight hidRound four, the clock ticked to 0:46. Meyer retreated toward the ropes, hands...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Credibility Filter in Professional Combat Sports: The Work That Begins When the Data Sheet Is EmptyThat morning in Incheon was cold enough that breath froze into mist on the gy...
Velasquez Stops Lesnar at UFC 121: UFC Heavyweight Belt Changes Hands in 4:12Da Nang, nine in the morning on 24 October 2026. An old projector in a small...
Tom Aspinall Vacates UFC Title: When Eyes Become a Taxed AssetI remember that night like a scar. Not because the fight was good — it lasted...
The UFC Heavyweight Belt: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Limits of the Strongest ManThe UFC Heavyweight Belt: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Limits of the Stronge...
UFC Heavyweight: From Mark Coleman in 2026 to the Vacant Belt of 2026At three in the morning, one table was still lit at a small café on Tran Phu...
Professional Combat Sports: Why the Richest Fight Business Is the Poorest in DataThree judges sat at ringside outside the octagon in Newark on June 1, 2026,...
