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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 Books Interim Welterweight Title: Carlos Prates vs. Michael Morales at UFC 336 in TorontoAt 5:12 in the morning, the phone on my wooden desk buzzed twice and went...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth-Round Knockout: When the Injury Map Doesn't LieOn the main card of UFC Fight Night, Raoni Barcelos stepped into the octagon ...
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...
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...
Olympic Martial Arts: The Weight Cut, the Money, and the Champions Nobody FilmsThe corridor behind the arena always has its own smell. Tape wound around...
Professional Martial Arts and the Fight That Happens Before the BellThree hours before the opening bell, the third-floor corridor of a riverside...
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...
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 Hospitalized After Round-5 TKO: Decoding a 39-Year-Old Bantamweight's Fracture and the UFC Death WindowRound five. The clock on the big screen in Las Vegas ticked past the fourth...
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 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...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Body Bill Nobody Wants to ReadOn the night of February 9, 2026, Cain Velasquez walked into the octagon with...
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...
27 Title Changes in 28 Years: The Fragile Pulse of the UFC Heavyweight BeltOn the night of March 5, 2026, the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas was packed to...
An Empty File in the Contract Window: Writing Combat Sports When the Data Isn't Thick EnoughPage 761 of my eleventh notebook contains a single line: “14:07 — hotel press...
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 Books Interim Welterweight Title: Carlos Prates vs. Michael Morales at UFC 336 in TorontoAt 5:12 in the morning, the phone on my wooden desk buzzed twice and went...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth-Round Knockout: When the Injury Map Doesn't LieOn the main card of UFC Fight Night, Raoni Barcelos stepped into the octagon ...
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...
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...
Olympic Martial Arts: The Weight Cut, the Money, and the Champions Nobody FilmsThe corridor behind the arena always has its own smell. Tape wound around...
Professional Martial Arts and the Fight That Happens Before the BellThree hours before the opening bell, the third-floor corridor of a riverside...
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...
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 Hospitalized After Round-5 TKO: Decoding a 39-Year-Old Bantamweight's Fracture and the UFC Death WindowRound five. The clock on the big screen in Las Vegas ticked past the fourth...
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 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...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns in 28 Years and the Body Bill Nobody Wants to ReadOn the night of February 9, 2026, Cain Velasquez walked into the octagon with...
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...
27 Title Changes in 28 Years: The Fragile Pulse of the UFC Heavyweight BeltOn the night of March 5, 2026, the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas was packed to...
An Empty File in the Contract Window: Writing Combat Sports When the Data Isn't Thick EnoughPage 761 of my eleventh notebook contains a single line: “14:07 — hotel press...
