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Warren eyes Croatian homecoming for Hrgovic's first title defense | The Ring

BoxingThe Ring16 Oct, 00:00 UTC

4 hrs ago 2 min read The ball is rolling on Filip Hrgovic’s historic world heavyweight homecoming in Zagreb. Hrgovic claimed the vacant IBF title with a ninth-round TKO over Moses Itauma in London on August 29, becoming the first-ever Croatian world heavyweight champion. Now his promoter, Frank Warren, has confirmed that Queensberry Promotions is working hard to ensure Hrgovic defends the belt for the first time on Croatian soil. “I’m quietly confident it will happen,” Warren said. “We like to g

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One to keep an eye on: it shapes the boxing conversation this week.

Impact 100
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Boxing ringside

00 stories + the leadTitles, mandatories, promoters and the fights being built. Numbers are today's overall rank.

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From the desk · Athletes

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UFC & MMA cageside

09 storiesUFC, PFL and the rest of the cage: cards, results, contracts and the talk that sells fights.

06Sherdog
15 Oct, 20:34 UTC

PFL Chicago weigh-in results: Title fight rematch set

The Professional Fighters League’s women’s flyweight title will be on the line following the PFL Chicago weigh-in.

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A real fight on the calendar beats a month of talk. This one has stakes worth circling.

Impact 81
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From the desk · Promoters

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05 pieces · our fight magazineThe build up, the numbers and the people before every big night, written and designed by the studio. Every piece with the cards we made for it. All of Before the Bell

Long reads

06 long readsThe Journal: the business, the body and the life around the fight, written by the studio, not scraped. Every figure carries its source. One long read a week, in this feed and at /journal.

The Journal · Lifestyle · 4 min read

Between camps

Two fights a year is thirty quiet weeks. What a fighter does with them decides the next purse, the next injury and whether anyone remembers the name in the spring.

2fights a year, the rhythm of most world level boxers and many professionals below them
20weeks in camp for two fights, at eight to ten weeks each
30quiet weeks a year, the time nobody films and nobody pays for
8 hthe sleep line under which the injury signal appears in the research, for every one of those weeks
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Business · 4 min read

What the UFC's books say about your sponsor deck

A read of TKO's published UFC figures for 2025, the Paramount rights deal, the record sponsorship year and the antitrust settlement, and what each one means for a fighter's kit and a brand's plan.

$1.5BUFC revenue in 2025, as reported from TKO's full year results
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Money · 3 min read

Small hall arithmetic

How a small hall show pays for itself, why the home fighter is also the sales team, what the away corner earns, and what the arithmetic says about a fighter's own brand.

£1,000to £1,200, a typical purse for a home fighter on a UK small hall show before the ticket deal
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Camp · 3 min read

The weight cut is a tax. Here is the rate.

What the studies measure about rapid weight loss in combat sports, how much fighters actually lose, which methods carry the risk, and how to plan the cut like the camp instead of like a panic.

97%of surveyed Irish MMA athletes lost weight to compete, all but one of thirty
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Recovery · 4 min read

Sleep is the cheapest coach you will ever hire

What the studies say about sleep, injury and performance in athletes, and a fight week sleep protocol that costs nothing and asks for no equipment.

1.7xthe injury odds of adolescent athletes sleeping under eight hours, against those sleeping eight or more
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Money · 3 min read

The money round

Gate, buys, subscribers. The four fights that set the records, what each one taught the business, and what the shift from pay-per-view to streaming means for a fighter's own brand.

4.6Mpay-per-view buys for Mayweather vs Pacquiao, the record that still stands
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Numbers of the sport · from the long reads · rotates every morning
7.9%of habitual body mass lost on average before competition, plus or minus 3.1Connor and Egan, Sports, 201958%higher injury odds with chronic poor sleep across seven pooled youth studiesGao et al., systematic review, 2019$72.2Mlive gate at the MGM Grand from 16,219 tickets, the biggest in boxingNevada Athletic Commission, via ESPN, 201520weeks in camp for two fights, at eight to ten weeks eachOur model, 2026$314MUFC sponsorship revenue in 2025, up 62.9 million dollars, about 25 percent, on the year beforeTKO annual report, via SponsorUnited, 2025150tickets a smaller promoter expects the home fighter to sell, enough to pay the opponent and leave a wageHonour and Glory Boxing, 20246.7%of body mass lost by UFC athletes in the 72 hours before the weigh inWeight loss and competition weight in UFC athletes, 2022, 20229%gain in free throw accuracy after weeks of ten hour sleep, alongside faster sprints, in Stanford basketball playersMah et al., Sleep, 2011

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From the studio · The Journal

The Journal, long reads with the numbers

3 Oct 2026

Our own channel for the business, the body and the life around the fight. Every figure carries its source. RSS and JSON, no noise.

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The Daily Ten is the news of the morning, ranked. The Journal is the other half: long reads written by the studio, not scraped, on the business, the body and the life around the fight. Raw, elegant, for fighters and the brands around them.

What is in it so far. The money round: what a fight night actually earns, from the gate to the stream. Sleep is the cheapest coach you will ever hire: the research on sleep and injury, and a fight week protocol. The weight cut is a tax: how much of the body goes before the scale. Small hall arithmetic: a four figure purse, a ticket deal and a journeyman in the away corner. What the UFC's books say about your sponsor deck. Between camps: two fights a year is thirty quiet weeks, and what to do with them.

How it is built. Every figure carries its source, named and linked at the foot of the piece. Where a number is our own arithmetic, the page says so. No third-party images: the page is type, figures and charts in the studio's own faces. One long read a week, by RSS or JSON feed, next to the Daily Ten.

Who it is for. The fighter who wants to understand the money he is not being paid. The brand that wants to be inside the sport rather than on top of it. The coach who plans the camp and wants the research in one place.

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From the studio · Career mode

Career mode, build your fighter

2 Oct 2026

Create your fighter, pick your missions and get your thirty-day plan. Three minutes, free, and one of us calls you with it.

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Career mode is the athlete funnel as a game. Create your fighter, see your missions on the city map, accept the briefing. Three minutes. Your fighter card and a 30-day plan, free. Every answer changes your card and your plan, and at the end Mert or Igor calls you with it.

Six steps. Discipline: boxing, MMA, bare knuckle, Muay Thai or kickboxing. Stage: amateur, pro prospect, contender or champion. Corner: what already exists, fight footage, training clips, an audience, a website, a sponsor, a team. Missions, up to three: sign sponsors, sell tickets, grow the audience, move PPV, merch and drops, a long-form series. Next fight: within a month, in one to three months, later this year, not booked yet. Look: classic, street, neon or luxe.

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The map. Every mission marked on it is a lane we run for you: the identity studio, the clip factory, the series lot, sponsor row, the arena, the Vault, the tech district. The route is your first thirty days. Fixed price.

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From the studio · The Daily Ten

The Daily Ten, how this feed works

1 Oct 2026

Ten combat sports stories every morning, deduplicated, ranked, summarised and read by us, with every outlet credited.

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Every morning at 06:00 UTC this desk reads the last 24 hours of boxing and MMA coverage across the best outlets, deduplicates it, ranks it by impact and publishes the ten stories that matter. Each one comes with a summary, the takeaways and our read. That is the Daily Ten.

What ranked means. An editor scores every story from 0 to 100 on how much it moves the sport: a title fight booked, a belt vacated, a result that rewrites a division. The ten are the top of that list, boxing and MMA side by side, the lead at number one.

What our read means. Our read is our opinion, one or two sentences under the facts. It is grounded in the reporting and it is ours. The facts stay the outlet's: every story links to the original article, and the credit line names who did the reporting. We summarise, we do not reproduce.

What else is on the page. A live wire of the outlets' latest headlines. The fight calendar: upcoming bouts with a date and a source, nothing guessed. The sources strip, every newsroom we read. Back issues, one JSON file per day.

How to follow. The page, the RSS feed, the JSON feed, and the story cards on Instagram every morning. Every card names the outlet in its foot.

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Fight calendar

Boxing and UFCUpcoming bouts with the story behind them. Every card links to its source: curated by our editors or taken from the reporting in today's ten.

  1. Sat17Oct 2026
    Queensberry · Boxing

    Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley 2

    The O2, London · 21:30 UTC

    Wardley dropped him twice in May and lost in the eleventh, then took the rematch clause. The WBO belt, run back.

    TomorrowSource: ESPN

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12 outlets, every morningThe best boxing and MMA newsrooms we read before we pick the ten. All credit to them: every story links to the original reporting.

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