We've reached the point in the UFC's 'hey, foreign governments, pay us for events' initiative that we're finally broadcasting an Australian card on Australia's time and they brought a whole roster of non-Australians coming off losses just to make the most of it. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

When I die, put me in the Apex along with the careers of everyone the UFC only pretends to care about. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

I am so incapable of not focusing on the sociopolitical aspects of combat sports that sometimes it's nice to be reminded that breaking down the mechanics of martial arts is fun.

You know how sometimes you make stuff and you know it's good, and sometimes you know it's just adequate, and sometimes you're just too far beyond caring that it's bad? Anyway Gilbert Burns and Mike Malott are main eventing a UFC and wait where are you going www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

Will the Light Heavyweight title finally find parents who love it? This, Cub Swanson's retirement, and my having a conniption over top ranked women being stuck on the fucking prelims again, all at UFC 327. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

it's important to recognize that we operate under a system where it's easier to be mad at democrats than republicans because no one expects the GOP to be anything but corrupt and it lets them get away with everything; it's also important to recognize democratic leadership is fucking useless

In which we reflect on the nature of generational warfare in sports, the minimizing of a fanbase for profit, and relitigating the value of slap bracelets vis-a-vis Lando Vannata. carlcx.substack.com/p/carls-figh...

I'm gonna change my entire life direction and become the world's greatest science fiction author in a venture powered solely and purely by spite

There was a hint of this last year when ESPN had a footnote in their quarterlies about making more money off the UFC deal because PPV sales had fallen so far they no longer had to pay the full term of their contract. Just can't believe a Steve Erceg pay-per-view didn't move the needle.

In a week of toxic media discourse we can be thankful there is nothing at all politically toxic about the UFC, let alone this week's show, where they try as hard as possible to get their most famous active black fighter retired by a white guy who loves cops. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

The UFC is in London to try to hype you up for a main event that only exists to stop at least one of its participants from getting what they deserve. Also: Bilingual Heavyweight Blues. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

When I try to cover a sport I've loved for my entire adult life and wind up talking about Lance Henriksen instead do you think that's a good sign www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

well, that's my week made.

UFC 326 is upon us and it's the equivalent of trying to enjoy a wonderful picnic in the middle of a rain except it's raining the dumbest advertising you've ever seen and also the clouds are kind of racist. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

The UFC is back in Mexico and man we really hit the they-don't-give-a-fuck arc of the Paramount era faster than I thought. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

read jess that is an order

Our week off is over and our reward for still watching this sport is a Sean Strickland fight and also matchmaking is a lie and the Water Wars are coming. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

For once a main event is actually good but the UFC beginning its full corporate partnership with Facebook leaves me incapable of feeling joy so instead we're on a mission to break Kyoji Horiguchi out of the Apex. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

I'm currently streaming and raising money for the National Immigration Law Center! www.nilc.org watch here: twitch.tv/will_shand <3

Everything's terrible and the UFC is responsible for making it all worse and will likely never see justice, but don't worry, they know what America needs right now, and it's another Diego Lopes title match. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

Is January off to a bad start? Don't worry: The UFC is back and they're prepared to make it even worse. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

they really can just liquidate you in broad daylight with cameras rolling and then blame you for it, which is obvious, and always has been, and yet, and yet, and yet

Toshinden 3 One Must Fall: 2097 Virtua Fighter 2 Soul Calibur Honorable mention for Tekken 3 but mostly just for Tekken Force

We have reached the end of 2025 in the UFC, and it ends where it began: Stuck in the Apex. I try not to rant in these writeups but this week I failed miserably, and I am at peace with that, and most importantly, Joanderson Brito has forgiven me. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

you are obligated to serve the internet still having good things in it by reading whatever jess writes

the UFC using their broadcasts to openly talk about how wrestling is boring and if you don't strike you should expect to have no opportunities is bad, but seeing internet MMA folks who've been watching the sport for decades go 'yes, this is good and correct' makes me actually feel insane

If you're reading this, congratulations: You outlived the UFC pay-per-view era. Your prize is a Merab Dvalishvili fight followed by years of watching the product get even worse. But Brandon Moreno vs Tatsuro Taira will rule. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

We talked about MMA fighters of years past and this time I invested in a shock mount so it no longer sounds like the world is coming to an end every time I talk, move or breathe wrong.

I know we could talk about the corruption of moneyed interests or the logjam of Lightweight matchmaking or the dissolution of meaning, but goddammit, Kyoji Horiguchi is back, and nothing else matters. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

We're at the penultimate UFC pay-per-view, and it's actually a very, very good card, and yet, it doesn't feel as good as it should, and we are going to talk about why at extreme length. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

On an exceedingly rare week where politics were more fun than punchsports we're back in the Apex, Raoni Barcelos deserves justice, and now I kind of want Taco Bell. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

We are back in the Apex. We never left the Apex. The entire sport is the Apex now and we are slowly congealing into a terrible biomass in its basement. Also, I get mad about women being stuck on the prelims for the eighteenth time. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

“Babe it’s 1 am why aren’t you in bed the children are going to wake up so early tomorrow” “Sorry hun, me and the 157 most brain damaged friends I’ve met online are watching two baseball teams we don’t care that much about and the bits have gone on so long we can’t turn back now”

ten count will finally get the attention he deserves

The UFC's Heavyweight division is a potter's field for dreams and they have no one to blame but themselves. However, Chris Barnett is fighting, so who's to say if MMA is bad or the best thing that ever happened. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

Middleweights. That is all. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

I didn't message out last week's card, but I am doing it for this one. Is this because I like Charles Oliveira more than Alex Pereira? Yes. And so should you. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

To a certain extent I think taking my anger at everything out on the UFC is at present a form of therapy, so aside from being an evil organization run by monsters, I'm thankful their cards also just suck shit so often. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

NEW: Please don't politicize WrestleMania. WWE delivers shareholder value and normalizes an awe-inspiring dictatorship that pays them extremely well—all while entertaining you. There's nothing political about that. www.postwrestling.com/2025/09/12/o...

take a trip down down UFC bullshit memory lane with @legkicktko.bsky.social

Noche UFC 3 is here, and somehow all the collective gods have failed to let the Earth swallow the UFC for draping itself in the Mexican flag while operating as Trump's front line, so we're stuck with it. Also, I have a small stroke getting mad about women's MMA. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

It's UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs Borralho, and we have a multitude of contendership snarls to start figuring out, and a Parisian crowd could get really, really mad, and also Shauna Bannon is here and I do not know why. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

can't wait for yahoo sports to host their first andrew tate interview, but the good news is it'll be next to an article about the WNBA, thus maintaining journalism's most sacred obligation: evenly balanced reporting

boy I sure wonder what MVP's career would have been like if every matchmaker hadn't kept him away from wrestlers whenever at all humanly possible

It's UFC 319, we are officially in the waning days of the pay-per-view system, I didn't link last week's article because I did not have the heart for it, and now Aaron Pico is here and I don't have lunch ready. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

well, I don't have to write a thing about it now, at least

UFC main events can change, but nothing can change the Apex. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

It's a UFC weekend and Robert Whittaker is fighting and I can't hear him over the din of the pure nihilism overtaking the sport. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...

Dustin Poirier is retiring, Max Holloway is fighting, and all I can do is think about the sport this should be. www.punchsport.report/p/carls-figh...