5000 words on Joshua Van and the unbearable, crushing weight of being king. Topuria YT video will be coming this week. After that a long form article on Conor McGregor ahead of his fight with Max (its totally happening guys trust).

Joanna Dangerfield 🏳️‍⚧️@joannadangerfd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new king reigns at 125, a young and violent upstart who still has not even realized his full potential. But kings have enemies, dangerous and deadly ones. Now on my substack: joannadangerfield.substack.com/p/the-corona...

A new king reigns at 125, a young and violent upstart who still has not even realized his full potential. But kings have enemies, dangerous and deadly ones. Now on my substack: joannadangerfield.substack.com/p/the-corona...

The Coronation of Joshua Van

Flyweight's new king is here to stay

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The story of the Four Horsemen continues, 2 years after its first installment. In a rematch of one of the best lightweight fights ever, Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler would deliver an encore that rivaled the original. Link below.

The Four Horsemen of Lightweight Part 2 coming tomorrow

I wrote about Ulberg Procházka. A mini-study on pressure, mechanics, and win conditions in MMA. joannadangerfield.substack.com/p/how-carlos...

How Carlos Ulberg Captured A Dream

A new king emerges from a short, chaotic fight

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@allelbows.bsky.social did you take this photo? or do you know who might have? I wanted to ask some questions about it if you could help at all.

that kinda sucked

Prepping the polycule for world war three.

Charles Oliveira's title run was one of the most inspiring and exciting times to be an MMA fan in recent history. I decided to revisit it. open.substack.com/pub/joannada...

Illuminated by God

An Examination of Charles Oliveira's Title Run

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DID YALL SEE THAT SHIT

getting harassed on the other app but I am so fucking excited for this card, i feel like its been forever since we had a genuinely good card with depth

Coming in here to politicspost and say WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TIM ECHOL'S DOWN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ALSO: Decision Desk HQ has also already called both Public Service Commissioner positions in Georgia for the Democratic candidates. These are statewide positions. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

the last six weeks or so of m's baseball has been some of the most fun baseball i've seen in my life

mariners won

Hey how y'all doing

Even in his retirement fight Dustin Poirier still put on a spectacular display of MMA. I wrote about it. Link below

I wrote about Dustin, god I'm going to miss him. open.substack.com/pub/joannada...

25 Minutes To Make Life Fair: A Love Letter To Dustin Poirier

Dustin Poirier is one of my favorite fighters of all time. He exemplifies everything I love about fighting. I'm going to miss him.

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A look at the fighter Max Holloway has become in the later stages of his career, through the lens of his knockout of Justin Gaethje at UFC 300. open.substack.com/pub/joannada...

Max Holloway: Electricity

Knockout of the year, up a weightclass, against a perennial elite, UFC 300, 24 minutes and 50 seconds of utter domination.

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that was fucking awesome

@lilturinabol.bsky.social WHERE YOU AT DANIEL

At 155 pounds there exists a quartet of fighters who are not defined by their accomplishments and peaks, but instead by how they fought. By the violence and entertainment they guaranteed when they stepped into the cage. I hope we remember them. joannadangerfield.substack.com/p/the-four-h...

The Four Horsemen of Lightweight: Part 0

At 155 pounds there exists a quartet of fighters who are not defined by their accomplishments and peaks, but instead by how they fought. I hope we remember them.

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Two sequences here where Edgar is able to get Aldo on the fence through overcommittals from Aldo and a lot of jabbing. Aldo however is able to get off the fence usually through some combination of pivoting, jabbing, and framing.

Great range management from Aldo allows him to get out of the way of Edgar's kicks, stick and move with his jab, and also prevent Edgar's counter entries. In the last clip though you can see Frankie realize this and switch to a step up low kick since it's faster.

Great cagecraft in the 1st from Aldo. Pivoting, exiting on angles to minimize strikes, and fighting for the center to give himself space to back up.

Aldo doing great work on the counter in round 1

Frankie Edgar trying to work in on Jose Aldo early in the 1st

Great pivot and hook from Aldo he- HOLY SHIT HE GOT LEG KICKED SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE OH MY GOD HIS LEG FUCKING EXPLODED

fully convinced a thermobaric bomb is less devastating than an Aldo leg kick. This is like the 2nd leg kick he'd thrown not even like Edgar's leg had been chewed up.

Shavkat Rakhmanov vs Ian Garry pre-fight thoughts thread: (1/12)

"Connor Ruebusch-esque in his diagramming Joe"

MixingMartialArts.com@www.mixingmartialarts.com · 2y ago

The Clinch Mauling & Ground Devastation of Shavkat Rakhmonov 🧵 It's here! My long awaited Shavkat article I go into lots of depth on his striking, clinch, and ground game, exploring the tactics that make his clinch so "sticky" and his ground & pound so devastating