The other view: Aspinal recoils at Gane Eye-Gouge Before you call Tom Aspinall a coward or say Dricus du Plessis isn’t a great fighter, try this. Lie down flat on your back. Now place a full gallon of water on your chest — just above your diaphragm — and balance it there. Feel the weight pressing down, just enough to make breathing a little harder. Next, have someone place another full gallon on your stomach. Now try to breathe. Slowly. Deeply. Notice how the air struggles to

An economist models combat sports Two months ago, we published our comparative analysis of how UFC fighter pay stacks up against other professional sports where individuals compete. In that post, we relied heavily on Dr. Hal Singer’s comparative wage analysis submitted in the UFC antitrust case. His work offered fight fans something we rarely get: a high-quality economic analysis not only of fighter pay as a percentage of revenue but—perhaps more importantly—a glimpse of what

Its Official: Fans Seem To Love Closed In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Justice got up one morning and sued the National Football League for its broadcast practices. It was the US government taking aim at the relationship between a sports league and its regulated broadcaster, the CBS network now owned by Paramount. The government won the case. The specific issue was whether the NFL could have a blanket ban on individual team broadcasts within another team’s home territory

After Alex “Poatan” Pereira’s  brutal finish  of Magomed Ankalaev at UFC 320 last evening, the Combat Sports Fans Coalition found itself...