@carlcx.bsky.social
Writing about combat sports at the end of the world. https://www.punchsport.report
well, I don't have to write a thing about it now, at least
11.08.2025 19:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
UFC main events can change, but nothing can change the Apex.
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It's a UFC weekend and Robert Whittaker is fighting and I can't hear him over the din of the pure nihilism overtaking the sport.
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Dustin Poirier is retiring, Max Holloway is fighting, and all I can do is think about the sport this should be.
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Sure, I may have written a lot of stuff about the ongoing collapse of mixed martial arts and how this weekend's fights exemplify it, but on the other hand, one of the fighters involved is very tall.
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It's UFC 317, and it's Ilia Topuria's theoretical coronation, and I cannot help feeling a little empty about it.
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It's time for Kamaru Usman vs Joaquin Buckley. I have reached the point where I have at least one existential crisis a week writing these. It is only June.
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One day, there will be nothing left to talk about in the UFC but the bad matchmaking. That day is currently scheduled for next March.
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Blanchfield vs Barber is this weekend and the UFC can't actually say if the second fight on the card for top contendership in a women's division is on the main or the prelims, but they can say you can buy new fighter debut patches through Topps. Fuck you, etc.
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they bought a brand and shockingly discovered homogenizing it into an indistinguishable AI clickbait outlet didn't work out so they're digging up its bones to try to make money off them
23.05.2025 23:34 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0all of this in service of a terrible idea that just keeps failing over and over, yet no matter how many times audience disinterest kills it, it will never be allowed to die
08.05.2025 15:54 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
UFC 315 is this weekend, and it feels like the company is getting as tired of itself as the audience has been.
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you are the best.
04.05.2025 02:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0going from people complaining about fanfiction being gross and amateurish to 'here is the official canonical star wars followup where a fishman assaults princess leia with his sex smells' was a formative early internet experience
03.05.2025 22:49 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i think, frequently, about how i spent decades wanting to write about media online but never felt okay putting my work in public, and within months of finally getting my shit together and doing so the entire online industry of written critique collapsed
01.05.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Somehow, on a card headlined by Cory Sandhagen and Deiveson Figueiredo, I am mostly excited about Reinier de Ridder and Gillian Anderson.
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The intersection of money and expression is now more of a freeway where the cars are constantly running everyone over, and somehow, this makes Ian Machado Garry and Carlos Prates punching each other make sense.
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continue forcing dissidias from the dissidia mines until a gem comes out again
20.04.2025 04:33 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0my one and only emotional salve is the way henry cejudo sold his soul to the trump movement before it was a corporate initiative and even now, even here, he still gets booed
13.04.2025 02:32 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0it's pretty concerning that the ways in which the judging will be bad has become predictable
12.04.2025 23:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Okay. Let's talk about it.
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Um, hey pro fighters out there - this seems kinda like a big deal
So boxing and MMA twitter -
This seems kinda like a big deal
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Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
02.04.2025 21:57 β π 30807 π 6386 π¬ 552 π 232
It's Joanderson Brito/Loma Lookboonmee fight week, and also some other stuff's happening, I guess.
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If I keep not linking these I will never do it again, and I gotta stop waiting to not feel like I am fiddling fighting songs while everything is on fire because everything will be on fire for quite some time, so let's watch the Lego man punch a tourism ad.
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by the standards of the time living through him sucked because he was a centrist republican in a blue state who killed healthcare and justice reform, he was bad, but it's hard to avoid that in the lens of california a decade and a half later he's almost quaint
16.03.2025 00:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Daggerfall is my favorite game of all time and it took more than twenty goddamn years for patches and modders to stabilize it. This has always been gaming.
15.03.2025 23:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0dude's been a robot laser-focused on political career advancement at all costs since he was an SF supervisor and I was 12, at this point I think he's shed anyone in his life who talks about anything but focus-tested expedience like a mantis leaving behind a trail of inconvenient exoskeletons
12.03.2025 04:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you kindly.
09.03.2025 07:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0,
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