BoxingFinesse

JournalRaw, elegant, with the numbers.

Long reads on the business, the body and the life around the fight. Numbers with their sources, for fighters and the brands around them.

Lifestyle29 September 20264 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.

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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
Business27 September 20264 min

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.

Money25 September 20263 min

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.

Camp24 September 20263 min

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.

Recovery23 September 20264 min

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.

Money22 September 20263 min

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.

Direct with Mert & Igor

Your next fight becomes a system.

The identity, the content and the tech that carries it, built and run as one studio. A fixed thirty-day pilot at a fixed price, and one of the two people who do the work replies within 24 hours.