The most toxic scenario in MMA looks like this: a champion stops a fight after an eye poke — and immediately gets branded as “couldn’t handle it.” Then a month passes, and it turns out it wasn’t “just a sting,” but a set of injuries that people generally don’t walk into a cage with. With Tom Asp...
There are losses you can chalk up to “just didn’t have it.” And then there are the kind where you just sit there blinking: is this really that same Oklahoma City? The defending champions, the top seed in the regular season, the team with the best net rating and an iron defense—and then suddenly it’s...
If you thought footballers only get a vacation and a “maybe drop a couple kilos after the holidays” checklist at the end of the year… nope. Dubai is a whole different vibe. On December 28, 2025, the Globe Soccer Awards ceremony went down in the ultra-glossy setting of Atlantis The Royal—where even t...
If you blinked, you might’ve thought this was just another “star vs showman” exhibition. But nope. In Dubai, they served us a “Battle of the Sexes” format: world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka versus Nick Kyrgios, who hasn’t really played since spring and was sitting somewhere way down the ATP rankings....
In chess, a “zevok” is when you hang a piece and then stare into the void for a long time, trying to understand: why did I do that? But at the World Rapid Championship in Doha, Magnus Carlsen gave the term a second meaning—human. Because before his game with Vladislav Artemiev, he looked like some...
Terence Crawford left boxing in December—clean, undefeated, with that iron 42–0 (31 KOs). And it seems he flipped a new switch right away: now he doesn’t prove it in the ring—he drops quotes that travel faster than highlights. “I watch UFC… but I’ve never seen Topuria” The funniest part: Crawfor...
Sometimes fighters ahead of a big fight “shut down” and slip into a routine: gym — sleep — diet — silence. Charles Oliveira went a different way: he went and built himself a Pokédex right on his leg — a full Pokémon sleeve/lineup on his shin. Judging by the videos and photos, it’s not just one s...
There are photos that don’t need a caption like “legends met.” Because it’s obvious: these are people who are used to winning — just in different sports. Novak Djokovic shared a shot with Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev — all three crossed paths in Dubai at the Globe Soccer Awards. No loud...
An exhibition match is usually either a cute attraction or a carefully staged “thanks everyone, everyone’s happy” kind of show. But in Dubai it turned out unexpectedly lively: Nick Kyrgios beat Aryna Sabalenka 6–3, 6–3, yet the tone after the match was not about “I proved something.” If anything,...
Sometimes boxing is romance: roaring stands, slick combos, and that “got dropped but got back up” storyline. And sometimes it’s a brutal physics lesson, where the equation is Anthony Joshua's right hand. Jake Paul once again proved he knows how to sell a show, keep the spotlight on himself, and cran...
