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Volkanovski Stops Evloev in Round 2: A Narrower Win Than It LooksThe stands were empty, yet the heart still beat in rhythm. In Round 2, when...
An Empty Record Is Not a Clean Record: How Professional Combat Sports Survive on Data SilenceIn December 2026, at Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, a weigh-in sheet was place...
Khamzat Chimaev Pushes for Sean Strickland Rematch: The 48-47 Scorecards and the Weight-Cut ProblemThree scorecards at UFC 328 all read 48-47. Two went to Sean Strickland, one ...
Chimaev Pushes for Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Cards and the Real Crack at MiddleweightThree scorecards, three lines of 48-47, and three different sets of rounds. A...
Khamzat Chimaev lost 48-47, but the deepest crack sits in the weight-cut roomThree judges, three scorecards, one identical band of 48-47. Two cards for Se...
Sal Everett stops Ozzy Martin at 1:57 to earn a UFC contract: a real KO, a still-blank recordOzzy Martin had just landed a kick to the body when the shout came from Sal...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: A 39-Year-Old's Three-Title GambleOn the night of December 12, at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Alex Pereira ste...
Jena Bishop Outpoints Liz Carmouche for the Inaugural PFL Women's Flyweight Crown: 48-47 and One Fragile RoundThe first round ended, and if you watched only its final thirty seconds you...
Jena Bishop and the PFL Crown: One Scorecard, One MarginWhen three judges return 48-47, people usually read that as consensus. In the...
Jena Bishop and the Inaugural Belt: When a Single 10-8 Round Nearly Erased HistoryIn the fifth round, around the four-minute mark, Jena Bishop locked her arms...
Jena Bishop Outpoints Liz Carmouche to Become First PFL Women’s Flyweight ChampionJena Bishop entered the final round with a tactical tear more visible than an...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After Health Scare: Age 39, Round Five, and the Data GapOn the night of September 26 in Las Vegas, in the fifth round of the UFC Figh...
16-0 and Still Cut: When UFC Prices Entertainment Above an Unbeaten StreakOn August 13, 2026, when UFC updated its roster on the official website, I wa...
Farid Basharat leaves UFC undefeated at 16-0: the sigh behind a denied ticketI remember that morning. Nha Trang was drizzling, and I sat at my usual café ...
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC: When a 16-Fight Unbeaten Run Stops Being a ShieldOn Thursday, the departure notice was confirmed. Farid Basharat walked out of...
The 16-0 Streak Cut: Farid Basharat and the Limits of an Undefeated RecordOn Thursday, I was sorting through a pile of load-recovery spreadsheets for a...
Undefeated at 16-0 but Still No New Contract: When the UFC Prices Entertainment Above WinningOn a Thursday, in the sweltering July heat of Saigon, I received a message fr...
Farid Basharat leaves the UFC despite a 16-0 record: When a win streak is no longer currencyThere is a moment in modern MMA that few people stop to look at closely: a...
Allen submits Duncan in UFC main event, calls out division's bestA night at Meta Apex, no packed arena, no roar of tens of thousands. Just the...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Held Together by One Point Deduction and a Late ChokeBrendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Held...
Dana White's Personal Assistant and the 1:57 KO: A UFC Contract Signed by Data or by Identity?The clock stopped at 1:57 of the first round. Sal Everett folded along the...
Sal Everett, the 1:57 KO, and a UFC Contract Written in Data and LimelightAt the 1:57 mark of the first round, Sal Everett drove Ozzy Martin into the...
Sal Everett, Dana White's Assistant, Earns UFC Contract: A Real Knockout and an Equally Real Data GapI was at UFC Meta Apex that night with a notebook and a blue pen. On the big...
Sal Everett Earns UFC Contract with KO: Reading the Punch and the Story Behind ItThe clock stopped at 1:57 of the first round. Sal Everett drove Ozzy Martin t...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Earns a UFC Contract with a KO: When the Story Runs Ahead of the DataThe clock on the UFC Apex screen stopped at 1:57 of the first round. Sal...
Sal Everett: From Dana White's Personal Assistant to UFC Contract and the Data Voids That Cannot Be FilledThe fight ended at 1:57 of the first round. There was no prolonged showcase, ...
The Missing Notebook of Vietnamese Combat SportsThe night of fights in Da Nang ended at 11:40 p.m. In the ring, the referee...
The Injury Map of Vietnamese Martial Arts: When the Ring Has No Medical RecordIn the fourth minute of the second round, at a Lion Championship fight night ...
UFC 335: Alex Pereira Meets Sergei Pavlovich – The Breathing Rhythm of a 39-Year-Old ChampionA morning in the gym: the heavy bag sounds dry and dull. No crowd, no...
Eight Layers of Fight Analysis: The Method I Use to Read a Matchup CorrectlyOn the morning of 13 November 2026, I sat in front of a screen in Hai Phong...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Quiet Battle Behind the RingThe training mat was worn, its edges fraying into loose threads. On it, a gro...
Barcelos Leaves Hospital After UFC Fight Night Health Scare: Mapping the Risk of a 39-Year-Old BantamweightI was sitting in front of a screen in Incheon, fourteen time zones away from...
Raoni Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher: Decoding the Medical File of a Fifth RoundRound five. The clock on the big screen in Las Vegas had not yet reached the...
Barcelos Leaves the Cage on a Stretcher in Round 5: 39 Years Old, 27 Fights, and the Lesson Called 'I'm Fine'The most frightening moment in a fight night is never the knockout punch. It ...
PFL CEO Resigns Two Months After MVP Merger: When the Acquirer Is the One Yielding the StageLast month, on his personal page, John Martin still called the PFL CEO seat h...
PFL loses CEO less than two months after merger: When a combat sports marriage reveals its takeover natureOn the night of July 30, in a small cafe near the Incheon waterfront, I sat...
The Collapse in the Sauna: How a Weight Limit Beat an MMA Fighter Before His QuarterfinalOPENING Roughly 30 minutes. That is the entire time an Indian MMA fighter —...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna and the Price of an Asian Games 2026 Quarterfinal BerthThe person who found him was not a referee, and not a team doctor. It was a...
Lo Thi Phung and the Unfinished Chess Game at 54kg: Vietnamese MMA's First Step Into the Asian GamesThere were not many people in the press area. I sat in the third row, noteboo...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan Faces a Destiny Test — and a Back That Carries an Entire CareerCrypto.com Arena, Los Angeles — betting odds place Tsarukyan at -275, Ruffy a...
Lo Thi Phung's Narrow Asian Games MMA Quarterfinal Loss: The Second-Round Breath That Decided EverythingThe referee raised the arm toward the opposite corner. Two judges scored it...
UFC 331: Steveson's Twelve Seconds and Van's Five RoundsI remember the twelfth second the way I remember a death. Not because of the...
27 Title Changes in 28 Years: An Anatomy of Instability in the UFC Heavyweight BeltThis article is a purely Vietnamese sports news analysis of the historical...
27 Title Changes in 28 Years: Why the UFC Heavyweight Belt Refuses to Stay PutThe bell that ends a heavyweight title fight does not sound like the bell in...
