combat

Single bout

One bout. Boxing bouts carry the full result (corner winner, method, round, time, per-judge scorecards). MMA bouts carry those result fields when loaded; otherwise result is null. The id is the canonical match id, the same one /v1/matches/{id} resolves.

get/v1/bouts/{id}

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.bigballsdata.com
  • URL: https://api.bigballsdata.com/v1/bouts/{id}
  • Auth: one of:
    • API key in header x-api-key
    • HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idstring uuid required

A stored BigBalls id. This is the identifier every match, team, player and league endpoint returns, and the one every {id} path segment accepts. Take it from the id field of the corresponding list endpoint and use it as-is.

Example:cf2d81c8-8e7c-4eaf-a515-c51be3962e57

Query parameters

sport'mma' | 'boxing' required

Required: disambiguates MMA from boxing.

promotion'ufc' | 'pfl'

MMA only. Requires the bout to belong to this promotion.

Response

ok. The bout object.

dataobject required

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "date_window": {
      "timezone": "UTC",
      "start_utc": "2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "end_utc": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z"
    },
    "source": "official-league",
    "confidence": 0.95,
    "cache_age_ms": 4200,
    "request_id": "req_abc123",
    "note": "match_id is omitted on 380 of 380 rows in this response. The live feed behind them does not carry an id we can resolve to a stored match, so we return no id rather than one that will not work. For rows with ids you can call back into, use /v1/stored/matches with the same sport or league, for example /v1/stored/matches?league=epl."
  },
  "error": {
    "code": "NOT_FOUND"
  }
}

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