About
Who keeps this record
Kurdish fighters are listed in a dozen databases, always under the flag of a state and never with a story. We built the place where both are kept.
Why this site exists
A Kurdish fighter can hold a world title and still be hard to find. The records live on one site, the biography on another, and the question people actually ask, where does he come from, is answered nowhere. Kurdish MMA collects boxing, MMA, kickboxing and muay thai in one register, across all four parts of Kurdistan and the diaspora.
Who publishes this
Kurdish MMA is published by the Cudi desk, the editorial name we write under. Cudi is named after Çiyayê Cûdî, the mountain in Kurdistan that carries the oldest story in the region. The desk is run by the team behind Kurdistanfa.com, a Kurdish football and apparel brand. We say that openly here rather than hiding it, because a record is only worth as much as the people willing to put their name on it.
Kurdish MMA is editorial. We do not sell anything on this site, and profiles are not for sale. If that ever changes, it will be stated on this page before anything else changes.
What we publish
- Profiles of fighters, built from published records with the sources named.
- A database of every Kurdish fighter we can verify, kept current as results come in.
- Context around fights that matter, written after the fact rather than as speculation.
What we do not publish
- Private lives. We write about careers, not families.
- Politics. Fighters compete under a Kurdish identity; we leave it there.
- Numbers we cannot source. An unverified field says so instead of carrying a guess.
How we name places
Almost every source describes these fighters through the state that governs the place they were born. We do not. We name the Kurdish city and the part of Kurdistan, Bakur, Başûr, Rojhilat or Rojava, and the country where a fighter now lives or competes. That is how the fighters describe themselves at the scales, and it is how we describe them here.
Corrections
Records change with every fight, and we get things wrong like anyone else. The editorial policy sets out how we check facts and how to reach us if something needs fixing. Fighters and their teams are always answered first.