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Alexander Volkanovski stops Movsar Evloev in 2nd round to retain titleOn a night that promised to be one of the most anticipated in the MMA world i...
UFC 333: Three Wins and the Cracks of a System That Refuses to ChangeOn a night when three seemingly unrelated fights ran along the same timeline,...
Makhachev Out, UFC Books Interim Welterweight Title: Prates vs Morales Is a Double-Edged GambleScotiabank Arena is used to roof-shaking nights. But on the night of UFC 336,...
UFC 333: Volkanovski, Yan and the Biology of Age 38The most striking moment at UFC 333 was not a punch. It was the clock....
Arman Tsarukyan vs Dillon Danis: A Press-Conference Lunge and a Mismatch Sold as a Title Fight at RAFA t-shirt. A name described as "mine". A 30-year-old man rising from his chai...
Tsarukyan lunges at Danis at RAF presser: the noise hides a badly mismatched boutLas Vegas, at the Real American Freestyle press conference: Dillon Danis sits...
Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer at 0:46 of Round 4 at BKFC 95: the 13cm gap never decided the fightPrudential Center, Newark, New Jersey. The round-four clock stopped at 0:46....
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Breaks Meyer Down Over Four Rounds, Not With a Lucky PunchRound four, clock stopped at 0:46. Meyer fell face-down on the canvas at...
Farid Basharat at 16-0 and cut: the UFC prices one finish above a perfect recordI was rewinding the final moments of Farid Basharat's unanimous-decision win...
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC Despite 16-0 Record: What Does the UFC Actually Value in a Fighter?Last Thursday, confirmation arrived that Farid Basharat was leaving the UFC. ...
Undefeated at 16-0 and Still Cut by the UFC: The Painful Lesson About What Combat Sports Actually Pays ForOn Thursday night, the UFC confirmed it was parting ways with Farid Basharat....
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC Despite 16-0 Record: When the Scorecard Is No Longer a Safe TicketLast Thursday night, as I sat in a small coffee shop on Sukhumvit Road in...
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC: A 16-0 Record Could Not Buy a Roster SpotPage 400 of the notebook I started keeping in 2026 holds a cold line: "UFC...
16-0 and Still Cut by the UFC: When Winning Is Not Enough to Keep a SpotThat night in Las Vegas, when the referee raised Farid Basharat's hand, the...
Farid Basharat Went 16-0 and Still Got Cut by the UFC: The Real Line Between Winning and Commercial ValueOne morning in July 2026, while I was organizing notes for my combat-sports...
Allen Submits Duncan in UFC Main Event: A Win Built on Nine Minutes of Control, Not SuperiorityOn the scorecards, Brendan Allen was ahead. Remove one point deduction in the...
Sal Everett KOs Ozzy Martin to Earn UFC Contract: A Real Punch, a Story Bigger Than the DataAt 57 seconds of the first round, Sal Everett walked Ozzy Martin to the cage...
Loopy Godínez and UFC Fight Night 290: The Return After the First FallIn a press room in Las Vegas, asked about Ketlen Souza — her opponent at UFC...
After the Bell: The Combat Sports Industry Profits From What It No Longer TeachesIn that instant, the whole arena stopped shouting. Three seconds after the...
RAF Abu Dhabi: UFC Loans Its Names, and the Debt Sits in Arman Tsarukyan's KneesOn October 23, Arman Tsarukyan stepped onto the mat. Twenty-two days later — ...
Sal Everett, Dana White's Personal Assistant, Earns UFC Contract with KO: A Full AnalysisIn a fight night at UFC Meta Apex in Las Vegas, 29-year-old fighter Sal Evere...
Dana White's personal assistant scores KO to earn UFC contract at Contender SeriesSal Everett, a 29-year-old personal assistant to UFC President Dana White, ha...
Jung Chan-sung Retires: The Legacy of a Fighter Who Needed No Championship BeltOn August 26, 2026, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, the third round of the...
The Hidden Page of Combat Sports: When Files Are Empty and Guesswork Replaces DataOn my desk in Beijing there is a forty-two-page file about a combat sports...
Raoni Barcelos Out of Hospital After UFC Fight Night Health Scare: Age 39 and the Fifth RoundRound five. Barely two minutes left on the clock. Raoni Barcelos drops to the...
Barcelos Carried Out of UFC Cage at 39: The Fifth Round of Courage and the Limits of the BodyLas Vegas, when the fifth-round bell rang, Raoni Barcelos rose from his stool...
Raoni Barcelos and the Silence After the Bell: When Self-Reassurance Cannot Replace a Medical DiagnosisThe most memorable moment of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas last Saturday was n...
UFC Vegas 121: Rosas Jr. knocks out Barcelos, but the win is overshadowed by the stretcherUFC Vegas 121 ended with a knockout victory for Raúl Rosas Jr. over Raoni...
Raúl Rosas Jr. and UFC Fight Night 289: The Defining Test for Mexico's 21-Year-Old ProdigyThe main event of UFC Fight Night 289 closes with a bantamweight bout, and th...
UFC 331: Arman Tsarukyan, Mauricio Ruffy and the Overlooked Variable Under the Los Angeles LightsCrypto.com Arena, Los Angeles. The arena lights dimmed, leaving only a narrow...
UFC 331: Joshua Van, the Fifth-Round Strike, and the 12-Second Crack Named Gable StevesonWhen the clock entered the fifth round of the Joshua Van versus Alexandre...
27 Reigns in 28 Years: The Cracks Inside the UFC Heavyweight EmpireIn November 2026, when Jon Jones defended the UFC heavyweight title, I sat in...
