Section · Combat
Martial Arts
Everything the paper holds for Martial Arts: game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.
From the Scorebook
Martial Arts Game Reports
No Martial Arts reports published yet
A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.
The Season
Season Calendar
Season Calendar · 2026
Martial Arts · No single governing body for professional MMA; promotions run the sport, above all the UFC, while amateur MMA has the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF)
| Phase | Starts | Ends | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| UFC year-round event calendar | — | — | No season. The UFC staged about 30 events in 2026, running on Saturdays essentially every week from January to December, split between numbered events and Fight Nights. Because cards are indoor and global, hemisphere inversion does not apply. |
| UFC Freedom 250: Topuria vs Gaethje | Jun 14, 2026 | Jun 14, 2026 | Staged on the South Lawn of the White House, Washington, D.C. |
| UFC 329: McGregor v Holloway 2 | Jul 11, 2026 | Jul 11, 2026 | Las Vegas. One of the year's two biggest news spikes alongside the White House card. |
| IMMAF Youth World Championships | Aug 16, 2026 | Aug 23, 2026 | Abu Dhabi, UAE. The organised youth pathway is IMMAF's. |
| IMMAF World Championships (amateur pinnacle) | — | — | IMMAF runs senior World Championships in November alongside continental championships through the year. The only date announcement found in this session was on a channel excluded as an unreliable source, so no dates are recorded here. |
ESPN UFC schedule · checked Jul 31, 2026
Not Yet Confirmed
5 parts of the Martial Arts year are still unsourced
These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.
- Season window
- The exact regulatory role of the Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports (ABC) in unified MMA rules — the ABC would confirm. IMMAF
- Olympic and major games
- IMMAF's current IOC or GAISF recognition status and any inclusion at continental multi-sport games — IMMAF would confirm. LA28 Games Plan
- College season
- Whether any sanctioned U.S. collegiate MMA competition exists, and if so under which body — IMMAF's U.S. member federation would confirm. NCAA Future Dates Summary · NCAA Emerging Sports for Women
- Club, youth and academy
- IMMAF continental championship dates for 2026-27 and national-federation registration windows — IMMAF (its events page returned no readable listing in this session) would confirm. IMMAF
- Results and news sources
- Whether UFC's own site (ufc.com) publishes a machine-readable results feed — UFC media relations would confirm. ESPN MMA schedule and results
Around The Season
- High school
- Not an NFHS sport and there is no U.S. high-school MMA season; MMA is absent from the NFHS list of sanctioned activities and sports. School-age athletes compete in feeder disciplines the NFHS does sanction, such as wrestling, and in youth amateur MMA under IMMAF-affiliated national bodies. NFHS Activities & Sports
- College
- Not an NCAA sport. MMA appears in neither the NCAA championship future-dates schedule nor the emerging-sports-for-women list. NCAA Future Dates Summary
- Olympic and major games
- None. MMA is not on the LA28 Olympic or Paralympic programme; it appears on neither list. LA28 Games Plan
- Club, youth and academy
- There is no conventional season: gyms train year-round and fighters are matched card by card. The organised youth pathway is IMMAF's, with Youth World Championships in August and senior World Championships in November, plus continental championships through the year.
- Busiest months
- January, June, July, August, November
- Where results come from
- ESPN MMA schedule and resultsCBS Sports UFC scheduleMMA Junkie (USA Today)IMMAFUFCalendar
Results data · Published but human-readable only, and fragmented across promotions. Full card-by-card results are freely available via ESPN, CBS Sports and third-party databases, but there is no central federation results repository for professional MMA, and amateur IMMAF results are announced through news and social channels. U.S. live video requires a Paramount+ subscription from 2026.
Programs
Schools Fielding Martial Arts
No Martial Arts programs in the directory yet
This list is built from the school directory the roster work already produced. Schools appear as soon as a program for this sport is sourced.
Athletes
Public Martial Arts Pages
Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.
No public athlete pages in this section yet
An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.
Bylines
Reporting on Martial Arts
No filed stories on Martial Arts yet
Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.