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So Sports Illustrated has been kind of complicated these last several years. Pretty much the only reason I put it here is because the screenshots themselves on every other website I could find were through the X API, which is a) fragile in terms of link rot and b) not ideal for anyone not wanting to give Musk traffic.
On Wikipedia, we use their post-June 2019 articles on a case-by-case basis. Moreover, this is part of their “on SI” thing, meaning that it’s “MMA Knockout” which Sports Illustrated hosts.
As for that specific link, I don’t think MMA Knockout or this author is some kind of meticulous consent-manufacturing machine; I chalk it up to incompetence and lack of care. I’ve written a lot of articles, and I can think of a ton of times where I either linked to the wrong thing (probably not the case here), accidentally placed a link in the wrong part of the text, or even very often had text with a relevant link/citation and then accidentally left it when I changed the text to something unrelated. It’s a real thing that happens, and I have to assume MMA Knockout has minimal editorial oversight to catch these sorts of issues. (If I were assuming malice, I would chalk it up to shameless SEO, not to manufacturing consent, but that’s also I think farfetched because you could just shoehorn in “relevant” text.)