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Full Tables, Empty Information: How Combat-Sports Writing Is Fooling ItselfOn a Friday night I opened a fight-preview file that ran to 1,800 words. Eigh...
The Scale Knows Before the Doctor Does: Vietnam's Combat Sports Injury-Records GapThe Weigh-In Room The weigh-in room backstage at a professional combat sports...
Alcaraz, Bergs and the Lesson of Words Not Meant to Be Read LiterallyZizou Bergs walked into the press room about twenty minutes after Carlos...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns and the Lesson of a Throne That Changes Hands Too QuicklyOn November 15, 2026, at UFC 91 in Las Vegas, Brock Lesnar stepped into the...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win by Control, a Callout to the Division's BestAt 4:32 of the fifth round, Brendan Allen took Christian Leroy Duncan's back....
The Silence Before the Bell: When a Martial Arts Referee Must Decide Without VARIn the ring, the most frightening silence does not come from the roar of the...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Earns UFC Contract With a 1:57 KnockoutDana White's Personal Assistant Earns UFC Contract With a 1:57 Knockout Sal...
Sal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with First-Round KOThe Event: From Backstage Staff to Contracted Fighter Sal Everett, 29, of Las...
Lessons from Silence: When Martial Arts Data is Empty, What Must an Analyst Do?In the world of professional sports analysis, sometimes the most important...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After Health Scare: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter Reaches His Own LimitI paused the footage on the final frame of the fifth round. In it, Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth-Round Knockout: The Medical Protocol as an Organization's True MeasureThe fifth round of the main event at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas ended when...
UFC Fight Night 289: Yazmin Jauregui Stops Vanessa Demopoulos in 62 Seconds and the Pricing Problem of an Opening BoutThe opening bout of a UFC card is rarely where aftershocks are expected. That...
UFC 331: Joshua Van, the Makhachev Lesson, and a Wake-Up Call for Olympic HeroesUFC 331 night in Las Vegas witnessed one of the most career-defining moments ...
The “Martial Arts” Label and the Cost of Choosing the Wrong Analytical FrameworkTHE “MARTIAL ARTS” LABEL AND THE COST OF CHOOSING THE WRONG ANALYTICAL...
The Global MMA Belt Map: The Twenty Pounds Nobody MentionsOn the ONE Championship scale, a fighter steps onto the stage wearing a belt...
The MMA Championship Map: Where Two 205-Pound Marks Tell Two Different StoriesAt a weigh-in in Bangkok, a fighter steps onto the scale. The needle stops at...
Dissecting the Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Belts, and the Gap Nobody NoticesDissecting the Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Belts...
UFC Heavyweight 2026-2026: 27 Reigns and a 13-Month Title TurnoverIn 2026, Josh Barnett was stripped of the UFC heavyweight title after testing...
Misclassifying the Discipline: When the Right Rule Becomes the Wrong RuleA weigh-in at a small gym in eastern Osaka runs eighteen minutes. On the same...
Deep Combat Sports Analysis: When There Is No Data, Do Not Fabricate StoriesI have been following mixed martial arts (MMA), boxing, and kickboxing for ov...
Vietnam Martial Arts Classification: The Data Gap That Turns Analysis into GuessworkA 0.2-second discrepancy taught me to trust my own eyes. But it took an eveni...
The Martial Arts Label and the Cost of a Sourceless AnalysisLate November in Incheon. I open a data extraction sheet a contributor sent...
The Scale Knows Before the Doctor Does: Vietnam's Combat Sports Injury-Records GapThe Weigh-In Room The weigh-in room backstage at a professional combat sports...
Alcaraz, Bergs and the Lesson of Words Not Meant to Be Read LiterallyZizou Bergs walked into the press room about twenty minutes after Carlos...
UFC Heavyweight: 27 Reigns and the Lesson of a Throne That Changes Hands Too QuicklyOn November 15, 2026, at UFC 91 in Las Vegas, Brock Lesnar stepped into the...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win by Control, a Callout to the Division's BestAt 4:32 of the fifth round, Brendan Allen took Christian Leroy Duncan's back....
The Silence Before the Bell: When a Martial Arts Referee Must Decide Without VARIn the ring, the most frightening silence does not come from the roar of the...
Dana White's Personal Assistant Earns UFC Contract With a 1:57 KnockoutDana White's Personal Assistant Earns UFC Contract With a 1:57 Knockout Sal...
Sal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with First-Round KOThe Event: From Backstage Staff to Contracted Fighter Sal Everett, 29, of Las...
Lessons from Silence: When Martial Arts Data is Empty, What Must an Analyst Do?In the world of professional sports analysis, sometimes the most important...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After Health Scare: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter Reaches His Own LimitI paused the footage on the final frame of the fifth round. In it, Raoni...
Raoni Barcelos and the Fifth-Round Knockout: The Medical Protocol as an Organization's True MeasureThe fifth round of the main event at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas ended when...
UFC Fight Night 289: Yazmin Jauregui Stops Vanessa Demopoulos in 62 Seconds and the Pricing Problem of an Opening BoutThe opening bout of a UFC card is rarely where aftershocks are expected. That...
UFC 331: Joshua Van, the Makhachev Lesson, and a Wake-Up Call for Olympic HeroesUFC 331 night in Las Vegas witnessed one of the most career-defining moments ...
The “Martial Arts” Label and the Cost of Choosing the Wrong Analytical FrameworkTHE “MARTIAL ARTS” LABEL AND THE COST OF CHOOSING THE WRONG ANALYTICAL...
The Global MMA Belt Map: The Twenty Pounds Nobody MentionsOn the ONE Championship scale, a fighter steps onto the stage wearing a belt...
The MMA Championship Map: Where Two 205-Pound Marks Tell Two Different StoriesAt a weigh-in in Bangkok, a fighter steps onto the scale. The needle stops at...
Dissecting the Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Belts, and the Gap Nobody NoticesDissecting the Global MMA Championship Map: Six Promotions, Twenty-Plus Belts...
UFC Heavyweight 2026-2026: 27 Reigns and a 13-Month Title TurnoverIn 2026, Josh Barnett was stripped of the UFC heavyweight title after testing...
Misclassifying the Discipline: When the Right Rule Becomes the Wrong RuleA weigh-in at a small gym in eastern Osaka runs eighteen minutes. On the same...
Deep Combat Sports Analysis: When There Is No Data, Do Not Fabricate StoriesI have been following mixed martial arts (MMA), boxing, and kickboxing for ov...
Vietnam Martial Arts Classification: The Data Gap That Turns Analysis into GuessworkA 0.2-second discrepancy taught me to trust my own eyes. But it took an eveni...
The Martial Arts Label and the Cost of a Sourceless AnalysisLate November in Incheon. I open a data extraction sheet a contributor sent...
