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UFC 336: Prates vs. Morales for Interim Welterweight Gold While Makhachev WaitsAt 5:40 in the morning, the roller door of a gym in Nha Trang was still...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event: When the Scorecards Say One Thing and the Choke Says AnotherI watched this fight at three in the morning, Bangkok time. The apartment was...
Allen Submits Duncan in UFC Main Event: The Scorecard Tells the Opposite StoryIn the fifth minute of the final round, Brendan Allen slipped his arm around...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in Round Five: A Win Built on Control Time, Not StrikingRound five, 2:46 on the clock. Brendan Allen was on Christian Leroy Duncan's...
Allen submits Duncan in UFC main event: a victory betrayed by its own numbersThe main event at Meta Apex ended with a rear-naked choke, and the roar rose...
Pereira Meets Pavlovich at UFC 335: The Final Gamble of a 39-Year-Old Former ChampionI remember that June night when Ciryl Gane stopped Alex Pereira in the second...
UFC 332 and the record 9 first-round knockouts: Matchmaking packaged as historyI remember the breathing. Not the cheering — the UFC 332 arena was packed and...
Overnight Weight Cut and the Sauna Blackout: The MMA Fracture at the 2026 Asian GamesAt the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, an Indian MMA athlete attempted to c...
Raoni Barcelos, 39, and the CT Scan That Rewrote a Fight: When the Fighter's Body Sends Its Final BillThere is a moment in MMA that television cameras usually cut away from. It is...
Overnight Weight Cutting at the 2026 Asian Games: A Sauna Blackout and the Gap in Weigh-In RulesOn September 20, 2026, in Aichi-Nagoya, an Indian MMA fighter referred to by...
Twelve Seconds and the Silence After: Gable Steveson, the Left Hook and the Price of BeliefCrypto.com Arena, Los Angeles. The clock on the big screen stopped at the...
UFC 331: Twelve Seconds That Changed History, Joshua Van's Rise, and the Lightweight Era DebateTwelve seconds. Just twelve seconds for an Olympic wrestling legend to collap...
UFC 331: Tsarukyan and the 93% Fist – The Equation Is Not in the OddsUFC 331, Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles. The odds board had Arman Tsarukyan at...
The Map of MMA Champions: When Every Promotion Keeps Its Own HeartbeatNights in Nha Trang tend to be long. I sit with my lined notebook, its spine...
Framework Before Conclusion: The Craft of Reading a FightLate August in Incheon, two screens lit. Left: a youth Asian taekwondo final....
27 Title Changes in 28 Years: The Erratic Pulse of the UFC Heavyweight BeltIn September 2026 the UFC heavyweight belt sits in a locked cabinet with no...
The Silent Ring and the Numbers That Speak: The Discipline of Verification in Combat SportsThree in the morning at a gym in Incheon, and the computer screen is still on...
Inside the 14-Day Notice: The Injury Bill That Arrives Six Weeks LaterIn my own tracking sheet there is one column I reopen more often than any...
Vietnamese Martial Arts on Two Floors: Full Trophy Case in Forms, Empty Footsteps in CombatAt the Cau Giay Gymnasium in Hanoi, on an afternoon in May 2026, a young...
Vietnam Open 2026: Aidil Sholeh, a 27-Month Drought and a Re-Measurement of Malaysian Men's SinglesThe 2026 Vietnam Open final in Ho Chi Minh City ended in two games: 21-16 and...
