You are missing the fact that the game jumped from Christmas to early spring at best, almost instantly. Creative works like books, movies, games are not real time. Apart from 24, and some others.
lol and you're missing my point that sometimes fighters may go extensive periods without fights.
There's fighters who are constantly active and fights frequently (like 3 or 4 times a year), whereas there are also fighters who fight much much less like once or twice per year, it depends on the fighter).
So why does it even matter that MC didn't have a fight in this chapter?
There's nothing guaranteeing or implying that MC is one of those most active fighters.
Nor did the dev make a promise saying "there will be a fight every chapter" lol
So even with the game jumping from Christmas to early Spring as you said, I see no issue with it.
And even if he's an active fighter, I just don't see this as that big of an issue that you seem to be making it out to be (shrugs)
The Fights will come with the Tourney when the dev feels it's ready; and as Ava said before, I have a feeling this is intentional to build up MC vs Marshman fight, & to have it coincide with Amrit and the current champion fight.
There's no point in just having a fight in just for the sake of it when it serves no purpose in the story without building things up.
Not to mention, while MMA is a big part of MC's life, it's not the only thing going on with him.
The center he works at, not to mention the relationship with the girls (like supporting Kana with her return), it's all gotta be balanced.
I'm kinda getting the impression that you're expecting a fight in every chapter, but I highly doubt that will actually be the case with this one.
My guess is, we'll either have one or, perhaps two at most fights for MC before the game finishes.