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Ultimate Fighting vs. math: no holds barred

One man’s quest to bring statistical analysis to the chaos of mixed martial arts

The whole point of ultimate fighting is that anything goes. But as mixed martial arts goes mainstream as a sport, how do you talk about it? How one sportswriter, Rami Genauer, introduced a controversial new system of statistical analysis to a sport that would seem to resist math.

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