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After UFC 333, Alexander Volkanovski Could Face a New ChallengeUFC 333 has ended, and the biggest story is not only in the results inside th...
UFC 336: Prates vs. Morales for Interim Welterweight Title as Makhachev Waits Out RamadanUFC 336 carries two title fights and one name that is missing from the billin...
UFC 335: Alex Pereira vs Sergei Pavlovich — the heavyweight gamble of a 39-year-old former championThat June night, Alex Pereira sat with his back against the cage, eyes still...
Farid Basharat and the Unrenewed 16-0 Ticket: When the UFC Prices Entertainment Above WinningIn a gym in South Florida, after the last session of the day, one often hears...
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC: When a 16-Fight Unbeaten Run No Longer Holds a Roster SpotI read the news at 5:47 in the morning, with the coffee on my desk long since...
Combat Sports Scorecards and the Camera Angle Nobody JudgesOn the night of June 9, 2026, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, when the...
Deep Analysis of Martial Arts Influence on Vietnamese Sports: From Tradition to ModernityIn the context of Vietnamese sports increasingly asserting their position on...
A Point Deduction in Round Two, a Choke in Round Five: Allen Beats Duncan, but the Scorecards Tell Another StoryA Point Deduction in Round Two, a Choke in Round Five: Allen Beats Duncan, bu...
Allen Submits Duncan in UFC Main Event: Control Victory, Striking Gap and the Middleweight Ranking ProblemIn the fifth round, Duncan was still landing more strikes. The final tally re...
Decoding a Fight: When Data Stands at the Edge of TruthIn my notebook there is a page with just three words: "Not enough data." I...
Sal Everett, Dana White's personal assistant, earns UFC contract with KO: from the assistant's desk to the octagonSal Everett, Dana White's personal assistant, earns UFC contract with a...
Dana White's personal assistant scores knockout to earn official UFC contractSal Everett, 29, based in Las Vegas, has earned an official contract with the...
The Injury Debt: The Hidden Economy Behind the Lights of Asian Combat SportsOpening: A Death That Did Not Come From a Punch In December 2026, in Manila, ...
Saudi Money, Million-Dollar Contracts and the Noise of Combat Sports: The Real Fight Is Outside the RingOn weigh-in night in Riyadh, when Oleksandr Usyk stepped onto the scale and t...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Arena Lights Up, the Gyms Still Wait for a GenerationOn a Saturday night in a small gym in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, fluoresce...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: The Risk Map of a 39-Year-Old BantamweightLas Vegas, the night of September 26. The clock on the UFC Fight Night screen...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Round-5 KO: Age 39 Is the Real Story, Not the Medical ProtocolThe fifth round of the main event. Raoni Barcelos dropped to the canvas of th...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round-5 TKO: Three Reassurances and One Data GapUFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. The fifth round of the main event. Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves the Cage on a Stretcher: Round Five, Age 39, and the Durability Threshold of a Bantamweight VeteranIn the fourth minute of the fifth round, at a Fight Night in Las Vegas, Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: When the Cage Calls a 39-Year-Old's NameThere was a moment at the UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas that no camera wanted ...
Barcelos Stretchered Out at 39: When Five Rounds Sign Their Name on a Fighter's BodyWhen Raoni Barcelos collapsed in the fifth round of a UFC Fight Night main...
Raoni Barcelos and the Final Limit: When UFC Bantamweight No Longer Has Room for Age 39I sat in front of the screen at three in the morning Nha Trang time, the coff...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter Leaves the Cage on a StretcherAt the fifth round, the noise in Las Vegas was loud enough that no one heard...
Raoni Barcelos: Round Five, the Stretcher, and the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterIn the fifth round of a UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas, Raoni Barcel...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan Needs the Mat, Ruffy Needs a MomentWhen the bell for Round 1 rang at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, my eyes di...
The Empty File and Eight Rows of N/A: The Limits of Data Analysis in Combat Sports2:14 a.m. in Guangzhou. I open the file a young editor sent me, named...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Three Inches of Hip and Ruffy's Fateful PunchIn the footage of Arman Tsarukyan's freestyle wrestling match at RAF, there i...
The Collapse in the Sauna at the 2026 Asian Games: When the 77 kg Weight Class Becomes a GambleThe Collapse in the Sauna On the evening of September 20, 2026, in the...
UFC 331: The Empty Seat at Lightweight and the 12-Second Knockout Exposing a System Misreading UsAt UFC 331, when Joshua Van landed the right hand that finished Alexandre...
The Referee's Eye: Eight Dimensions of Combat Sports Analysis and the Gap That Emotion Cannot FillThere is a moment I still remember vividly, though it had nothing to do with...
Professional Combat Sports: The Empty File and the Cost of Reading It as InnocenceOn December 29, 2026, Jon Jones stepped onto the scale at The Forum in...
The Global MMA Championship Map: A Twenty-Pound Gap and Six Vacant BeltsLate in June, I sat down and counted the vacant championship belts across the...
The Global MMA Champion Map: When Gold Belts No Longer Mean Equal StatusWhen Anatoly Malykhin raised two gold belts simultaneously - one at light...
The Hidden Map of Global MMA: Six Empires, One Skewed Weight Map, and the Sleeping Giant Called PFLFrom the bottom of the rankings, I see an empire waiting to awaken. On August...
A Blank Dossier on the Scales: The Standard That Separates Fight Analysis From GuessworkThree in the morning, I opened the eight-page dossier a colleague had sent fo...
UFC 336: Prates vs. Morales for Interim Welterweight Title as Makhachev Waits Out RamadanUFC 336 carries two title fights and one name that is missing from the billin...
UFC 335: Alex Pereira vs Sergei Pavlovich — the heavyweight gamble of a 39-year-old former championThat June night, Alex Pereira sat with his back against the cage, eyes still...
Farid Basharat and the Unrenewed 16-0 Ticket: When the UFC Prices Entertainment Above WinningIn a gym in South Florida, after the last session of the day, one often hears...
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC: When a 16-Fight Unbeaten Run No Longer Holds a Roster SpotI read the news at 5:47 in the morning, with the coffee on my desk long since...
Combat Sports Scorecards and the Camera Angle Nobody JudgesOn the night of June 9, 2026, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, when the...
Deep Analysis of Martial Arts Influence on Vietnamese Sports: From Tradition to ModernityIn the context of Vietnamese sports increasingly asserting their position on...
A Point Deduction in Round Two, a Choke in Round Five: Allen Beats Duncan, but the Scorecards Tell Another StoryA Point Deduction in Round Two, a Choke in Round Five: Allen Beats Duncan, bu...
Allen Submits Duncan in UFC Main Event: Control Victory, Striking Gap and the Middleweight Ranking ProblemIn the fifth round, Duncan was still landing more strikes. The final tally re...
Decoding a Fight: When Data Stands at the Edge of TruthIn my notebook there is a page with just three words: "Not enough data." I...
Sal Everett, Dana White's personal assistant, earns UFC contract with KO: from the assistant's desk to the octagonSal Everett, Dana White's personal assistant, earns UFC contract with a...
Dana White's personal assistant scores knockout to earn official UFC contractSal Everett, 29, based in Las Vegas, has earned an official contract with the...
The Injury Debt: The Hidden Economy Behind the Lights of Asian Combat SportsOpening: A Death That Did Not Come From a Punch In December 2026, in Manila, ...
Saudi Money, Million-Dollar Contracts and the Noise of Combat Sports: The Real Fight Is Outside the RingOn weigh-in night in Riyadh, when Oleksandr Usyk stepped onto the scale and t...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Arena Lights Up, the Gyms Still Wait for a GenerationOn a Saturday night in a small gym in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, fluoresce...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: The Risk Map of a 39-Year-Old BantamweightLas Vegas, the night of September 26. The clock on the UFC Fight Night screen...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Round-5 KO: Age 39 Is the Real Story, Not the Medical ProtocolThe fifth round of the main event. Raoni Barcelos dropped to the canvas of th...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round-5 TKO: Three Reassurances and One Data GapUFC Fight Night in Las Vegas. The fifth round of the main event. Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves the Cage on a Stretcher: Round Five, Age 39, and the Durability Threshold of a Bantamweight VeteranIn the fourth minute of the fifth round, at a Fight Night in Las Vegas, Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: When the Cage Calls a 39-Year-Old's NameThere was a moment at the UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas that no camera wanted ...
Barcelos Stretchered Out at 39: When Five Rounds Sign Their Name on a Fighter's BodyWhen Raoni Barcelos collapsed in the fifth round of a UFC Fight Night main...
Raoni Barcelos and the Final Limit: When UFC Bantamweight No Longer Has Room for Age 39I sat in front of the screen at three in the morning Nha Trang time, the coff...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth Round: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter Leaves the Cage on a StretcherAt the fifth round, the noise in Las Vegas was loud enough that no one heard...
Raoni Barcelos: Round Five, the Stretcher, and the Injury Map of a 39-Year-Old FighterIn the fifth round of a UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas, Raoni Barcel...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan Needs the Mat, Ruffy Needs a MomentWhen the bell for Round 1 rang at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, my eyes di...
The Empty File and Eight Rows of N/A: The Limits of Data Analysis in Combat Sports2:14 a.m. in Guangzhou. I open the file a young editor sent me, named...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan's Three Inches of Hip and Ruffy's Fateful PunchIn the footage of Arman Tsarukyan's freestyle wrestling match at RAF, there i...
The Collapse in the Sauna at the 2026 Asian Games: When the 77 kg Weight Class Becomes a GambleThe Collapse in the Sauna On the evening of September 20, 2026, in the...
UFC 331: The Empty Seat at Lightweight and the 12-Second Knockout Exposing a System Misreading UsAt UFC 331, when Joshua Van landed the right hand that finished Alexandre...
The Referee's Eye: Eight Dimensions of Combat Sports Analysis and the Gap That Emotion Cannot FillThere is a moment I still remember vividly, though it had nothing to do with...
Professional Combat Sports: The Empty File and the Cost of Reading It as InnocenceOn December 29, 2026, Jon Jones stepped onto the scale at The Forum in...
The Global MMA Championship Map: A Twenty-Pound Gap and Six Vacant BeltsLate in June, I sat down and counted the vacant championship belts across the...
The Global MMA Champion Map: When Gold Belts No Longer Mean Equal StatusWhen Anatoly Malykhin raised two gold belts simultaneously - one at light...
The Hidden Map of Global MMA: Six Empires, One Skewed Weight Map, and the Sleeping Giant Called PFLFrom the bottom of the rankings, I see an empire waiting to awaken. On August...
A Blank Dossier on the Scales: The Standard That Separates Fight Analysis From GuessworkThree in the morning, I opened the eight-page dossier a colleague had sent fo...
