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27 Reigns, One Empty Belt: The Real Heartbeat of the UFC Heavyweight DivisionIn September, the UFC heavyweight championship belt was left on a grey mat in...
Allen Submits Duncan in Round 5: A Win on the Scorecards, a Loss in the CageAt the 22:46 mark, Brendan Allen slipped his arm under Christian Leroy Duncan...
Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital After Health Scare: 39 Years Old, 28 Fights, and a Line That Cannot Be NegotiatedAt two in the morning Vietnam time, I sat in front of the screen watching UFC...
Barcelos Says 'I'm Fine' – But the 39-Year-Old Fighter May Have Crossed a Red Line?The Las Vegas night did not sleep. On the big screen, Raoni Barcelos lay...
Raoni Barcelos and the Silent Night in Las Vegas: When the Life-Saving Bell Rang Later Than the ApplauseI sat about two meters from the screen, my lined notebook open at a middle...
Barcelos Left the Cage on a Stretcher at 39: What Worries More Than the KnockoutThat moment had no roar. In the fifth round, when the referee stepped between...
Lo Thi Phung loses to Lee Bomi in Asian Games quarterfinal: when the extra round becomes a conditioning testOn September 20, in the women's 54 kg quarterfinal at the Asian Games, three...
PFL CEO John Martin Resigns Less Than Two Months After MVP Merger: When the 'Merger' Looks Like an AbsorptionOn the night of July 30, 2026, a short press release was pushed through every...
PFL CEO John Martin Resigns Two Months After Merger: MVP Takes ControlThere is a small detail in John Martin's resignation statement that made me...
Not a Single Information Point: A Blank Combat-Sports File and Three Scoring Systems Read Against Each OtherIn Bangkok, late at night, a file lands on the machine with exactly one tag...
Global MMA Belts and the Rule Gap: When Two Promotions' 'Middleweight' Weigh DifferentI was sitting in the fourth row of a coffee shop on Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street ...
27 Reigns in 28 Years: The Injury Data of the UFC Heavyweight DivisionI sat in an editing room in Guangzhou, replaying UFC 241 for the third time....
27 Reigns in 28 Years: The Power Map of the UFC Heavyweight ChampionshipI remember that night in Incheon. Outside the window of my twelfth-floor...
The Combat Sports Bubble Bursts Quietly — and It Bursts at the Weigh-InI have stood in more than two hundred weigh-ins. In Tokyo, in Bangkok, in a f...
CS2 Falls to 805,000 Average Players: Seven Straight Months of Decline and the Line Between Seasonality and Structural ErosionOn September 23, 2026, Counter-Strike 2 peaked at 1,450,705 concurrent player...
Boatwright's Naturalization Law Passes but Misses Asian Games: The Puzzle for Gilas PilipinasWhen Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allowed the naturalization bil...
Nguyen Minh Hoang and the 1m46 Sprint: When Swimming xG SpeaksHook 1m46 and 2/100 of a second. That number was not in any of my prediction...
Vietnamese Traditional Martial Arts Between Two Streams: Heritage and Real CombatI stand in the corner of a training hall on Nguyen Van Linh Street, Da Nang,...
The Kobe-LeBron Card Sold for $6.5 Million and the Buried $12.93 Million FigureOn a Thursday with no specific date attached, a dual card featuring Kobe Brya...
The Last Five Points at the China Masters: How Rankireddy and Shetty Won With MemoryThe score froze at 16-17. Third game, a China Masters final that would run 1...
