Tarjei Nymark Mørkve has spent a long career writing about Norwegian and international combat sports from his base in Voss. He founded mma-norway.com — the leading MMA/grappling fan portal in the country — and created the UFC Norway Facebook page that has served for years as one of the main aggregators of Norwegian fight news.
He is not a competitor by rank. His role in the scene is structural in a different way: the journalist whose reporting has documented Norwegian MMA, BJJ and grappling events as they happened, building a public record that the rest of the community now relies on when it wants to know what happened.
For a national fight scene that is small enough to be poorly served by mainstream media, a dedicated journalist like Mørkve has functioned as the de facto sports desk. Norwegian combat sports owe a meaningful share of their visibility to his work.