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Brendan Bradford
Brendan BradfordContent producer

Brendan Bradford is a sports writer for CODE Sports. He primarily covers combat sports, league, union, cycling and athletics. Brendan has worked in sports media for a decade, covering world title fights, World Cups, Grand Slams and Spring Tours.

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UFC
MMA knockout legend Mark Hunt also destroys rivals in chess

How knockout machine became a chess genius

Mark Hunt’s rise to the top of MMA has been well documented. His rise to the top 1.4 per cent of chess players in the world? It began a long time ago, in school then in prison. 

Boxing
Why every Tszyu fight is really Tim vs Kostya

Kostya vs Tim: The real Tszyu title fight

Tim Tszyu is brutally honest: his relationship with his legendary father Kostya is complicated. What he wants for his own career is not, and that’s to be even greater than the absent man who still casts such a large shadow.

Cricket
NZ’s greatest story hides true reason for their rise

Mythbusting the rise of an unlikely superpower

The greatest story New Zealand cricket ever told – about a brutal chat over beers after a shocking Test failure – has also become its greatest myth. Here’s what really happened as the Black Caps became an unlikely cricket superpower.