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The Ten Seconds After a Knockout

Usman Nurmagomedov jumped the fence to reach his unconscious brother in Shanghai. Everyone understands why — and that is exactly why the rule exists.

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Fight week is full of noise. A guide to the handful of signals that have historically meant something, and the ones that never do.

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Everyone in the sport knows extreme cutting is dangerous and everyone keeps doing it. A look at the incentives that keep it in place.

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Rounds are scored as a whole and remembered as an ending. What smart fighters do when the ten-second clapper sounds.

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A low-risk, low-glamour strike quietly rewrote how MMA fights are fought. How it works, why it spread so fast, and what beats it.

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Open-stance fights are decided below the knee. A plain-language guide to why southpaws cause problems and what solving them looks like.

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Wrestling wins by compressing the choices your opponent has left. Hand fighting, fence work, and the scramble.

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Why the best jiu-jitsu in MMA is never one attempt — it is a chain that forces the defence to keep answering.