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Qatar is for the UFC B-Team and Side Hustles
Doha is not Abu Dhabi; it's not Riyadh; it's Perth -- with a bigger site fee.
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Nate Wilcox
Ari Emanuel, Larry Ellison, and the Gulf Triangle
Inside the Silent Geometry Shaping the $70B+ Battle for Warner Bros Discovery.
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Blake “Axe” Avignon
Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua: Turki's Ring Magazine power play worked
Will Turki get his Christmas wish of destroying 'celebrity boxing'?
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Zach Arnold
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Nate Wilcox
52:23
UFC 322 at MSG: Wall Street’s programmed customers
New York state of mind: Over 20,000 fans and $13.6M at the gate... for this?
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Zach Arnold
UFC 322: Jack Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev picks and predictions
See who we think will win in NYC this weekend.
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Tim Bissell
Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua Is the Fight the Fans (and Jake) Deserve
The beating that Anthony Joshua could put on Jake Paul is the stuff of sadistic fantasy, mine.
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Nate Wilcox
TKO overreach and UFC gambling backlash
Dana White, Ultimate Whale, is who Mark Shapiro has handling PR.
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Zach Arnold
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Nate Wilcox
50:31
UFC was warned and did nothing about Dulgarian
Big red flags raised in UFC gambling scandal. Can you trust APEX fights?
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Zach Arnold
Inside the UFC's Gambling & Integrity Crisis
How a night in Las Vegas could turn into a federal investigation that could shake the foundation of the UFC.
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Blake “Axe” Avignon
Why gambling scandals hurt UFC more than other sports
The UFC has done nothing to restore customer confidence.
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Zach Arnold
A Fixed UFC Fight? The Inevitable Outcome of TKO's Strategy
No matter how much money we stuff into Ari Emanuel's mouth, he'll never shit great fights
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Nate Wilcox

October 2025

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