Women’s MMA Editor
Maya Reynolds
Maya Reynolds covers women’s MMA, rising contenders, championship fights, and the athletes influencing the sport’s future.
Articles by Maya Reynolds (5)
AnalysisBrazil Is Not the Submission Country. Ukraine Is, by Seven Points
Brazilian submissions run two-tenths of a point above the world average — the reputation is a training culture, not a result. Measured across 307,578 fighters, the actual grappling nation is somewhere else entirely.
AnalysisHalf of Everyone Who Ever Fought MMA Professionally Did It Exactly Once
The archive holds 336,562 professional fighters. 177,840 of them fought a single time and never came back. Sorting those debuts by how they ended turns up something the record book cannot see.
AnalysisWhere MMA Fighters Actually Come From — 347,000 Records, Mapped
The United States has more fighters than the next four countries combined. But the gyms with the best win rates are somewhere else entirely, and the pattern is not what the highlight reels suggest.
Conor McGregor: The Welfare Check That Became a Fortune
From a Dublin plumbing apprenticeship and a 188-euro benefits payment to two simultaneous world titles — how Conor McGregor talked a future into existence.
Khabib Nurmagomedov: The Man Who Retired Undefeated and Unbroken
29 fights, 29 wins, one promise to his mother — the story of the Eagle who conquered an entire sport and walked away at the summit.