How we work
Combat Sports UK uses AI to help research and draft its journalism. Every article is checked against its source before it is published, a named editor holds responsibility for it, and we say on every article that AI was involved.
Who is responsible
Darren Murray is the editor of Combat Sports UK and holds editorial responsibility for everything published here. Articles are drafted with AI from a named source and pass a set of automated editorial checks before publication: every fact and every quotation must appear in the source, results are checked against our own fight database, and the house style is enforced. The editor reviews the published output and is accountable for it.
Approval is recorded against a specific version of an article. If the text changes afterwards, the approval lapses automatically and the article is withdrawn from the site until it has been reviewed again. An editor’s name cannot end up on words they did not read.
How we source stories
Much of our news is written from reporting by an identifiable outlet. When it is, that outlet is named and linked at the first reported fact and listed under the article, and the piece is written in our own words rather than copied. Where we learn of a story from a social account that reposts other people’s work, that account is recorded as where we found it and is never cited as the source. We trace the claim back to something accountable — the person who said it, the promotion that announced it, or an identifiable outlet doing its own reporting — and we credit that outlet plainly.
A story that only ever traces back to a repost does not get published here.
What we will not assert
Where sources disagree and we cannot resolve it, we say so in the article rather than quietly picking one. Those articles carry a “what we are not stating as fact” section. We would rather tell you what is unresolved than sound more certain than we are.
The same applies to fight data. Where our source records that a fight ended early but not whether it was a knockout or a submission, we say it was a finish and give the round — we do not guess. Where a ranking feed disagrees with reality, a human-verified record takes precedence over the feed.
Pictures
Our article images are original illustrations generated in our own house style and labelled as such. We do not use press or agency photography.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we want to know. Corrections are made on the original article with a note explaining what changed, rather than edited away silently. Use the contact form and choose “Correction”.
Times
Every time on this site is UK local — GMT or BST as applicable. A card that starts on Saturday night in America and finishes on Sunday morning here is described the way a British reader experiences it.