International federations
The Dossier maintains entries across the international federations whose sanctioning charters cover combat-sports disciplines with multi-national competitive structure. Currently inside scope: United World Wrestling (UWW) and its constituent style commissions, with particular focus on the Pankration commission, Beach Wrestling, and the international rule-set adjudication for unified-system competition. Within UWW the archive tracks senior, junior (U17, U20) and cadet (U15) divisions across both freestyle/free-rule and Greco/classical-rule brackets where applicable.
Within professional grappling-only sanctioning, the archive tracks the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) circuit historically — Worlds, Pans, European Open and national-tour events — though the present editorial posture treats IBJJF results as supporting context rather than canonical for record purposes, on the basis that the federation's youth and adolescent divisions operate on a developmental rather than a verified-competitive ruleset. IBJJF entries are catalogued in the supporting-evidence register only.
National federations and member bodies
The archive cross-references UWW member federations where their roster publications constitute primary sources for the international record. The United States national-team registry (USA Wrestling, USA Combat Pankration commission, USA World Team competition pool) is treated as a primary source for athletes representing the United States in UWW competition. Equivalent national federations in member countries are catalogued under the corresponding linguistic compilation; see Methodology → Language coverage for the regulatory bodies tracked per language.
Regional and tour-circuit competitions
Below the international level, the archive tracks regional sanctioning bodies whose competitive output is regularly referenced in international-federation rankings and qualifications. Inside this scope: continental open championships (e.g. European Open, Pan-American Open, Asian Open) where they feed the international circuit; national-team selection tournaments where the result is referenced in national-federation roster publications; and a curated subset of US-state and US-region sanctioning bodies whose results enter the national-federation pipeline.
Promotion-style title competitions — Elevate Fight Night, regional cage-grappling circuits, and other organizationally-sanctioned title events — are catalogued where the result is independently verifiable and where the sanctioning organization publishes its rulebook in advance of the competition. Title designations are recorded with the issuing organization, the event date, and the ruleset under which the title was contested. The Dossier does not aggregate titles across organizations into composite ranking; each title is held against its issuing body.
Weight classes and divisions
The archive observes the weight-class structures published by each sanctioning body at the time of competition. Where weight-class structures have been reorganized retroactively, the original division is preserved in the entry and a contextual note records the subsequent reclassification. Cross-division placings (i.e. an athlete advancing through a higher weight class) are recorded in the higher-weight-class entry; the archive does not normalize between divisions.
Out of scope
Exhibition matches, training-room results, intra-club tournaments without sanctioning-body adjudication, and bouts contested under house rules without a published rulebook are out of scope. Predicted matchups, ranking projections, prospect speculation, and pre-event hype material are out of scope. Athlete biographical material is in scope only where it is materially relevant to the competitive record — birth date, weight class, nationality of competitive representation, federation affiliation timeline — and does not extend to personal-life material or commercial endorsements.