Martial Arts
From Eating Rice Better to National Gold: Chi Thanh's Double Triumph
Silver in a 57-Woman Bracket, 0-6 in the Final: The Arithmetic Nobody Is Reading Behind Cam Tu's Medal
From a Rajshahi Rooftop to the Dhaka Federation: How One Number Became Martial Arts' Trial by Fire
The Shifting Geography of Combat Sports: Martial Arts at the Triangle of Rules, Economics and Safety
Three Wrong Anthems: The Ledger Nobody Kept at the Para Games Podium
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens, and One Empty Record BookA weigh-in morning in a Dhaka hotel ballroom last year. Forty chairs, no more...
From Eating Rice Better to National Gold: Chi Thanh's Double TriumphVietnam's 2026 National Sports Congress karate competition ended with a notab...
Tatiana Suarez Moves Closer to UFC Gold After Defeating Virna Jandiroba: Is Mackenzie Dern the Next Challenge?The final horn sounded at the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on November 7, 2026, wit...
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years: Eligibility Questions Loom Larger Than Her Comeback FightTwo years is a long absence in professional boxing. During that time, a fight...
Silver in a 57-Woman Bracket, 0-6 in the Final: The Arithmetic Nobody Is Reading Behind Cam Tu's MedalI saw 0-6 on the scoreboard at Bielsko-Biala and assumed the screen had...
From a Dhaka Hotel Ballroom to the Ring: The Venue Economics of Bangladeshi Professional Boxing's BirthNovember 2026. The National Sports Council (NSC) was shut, the 2026 Kathmandu...
From a Rajshahi Rooftop to the Dhaka Federation: How One Number Became Martial Arts' Trial by FireIn June 2026, Bangladesh scored 264 in the Champions Trophy semifinal. After...
Vietnam's First Medal in Dakar Arrived by Phone Call, Two 9.346s, and a Gap in the Medal LedgerAt around six in the morning on the balcony of my Khulna flat, I listened to ...
History in Dakar: Lê Hoàng Wins Vietnam's First Medal at the Youth OlympicsDakar, Senegal — Vietnam's Lê Hoàng has won silver in the men's taijiquan and...
Silent Failure: Empty Payloads, Unflagged Health Risks and a Taxonomy Trap in Combat-Sports News AnalysisAn entirely empty data object. No headline, no source, no publisher, no...
The Shifting Geography of Combat Sports: Martial Arts at the Triangle of Rules, Economics and SafetyMartial arts is an umbrella term. Underneath it sit two very different things...
The Scoreboard of Empty Cells: Inside an Eight-Dimension Martial Arts Audit That Stopped at 'Insufficient Information'1:22 a.m. The fan in my Cheras flat is running at full speed, cold tea on the...
Raoni Barcelos: From Stretcher to 'I'm Doing Great' — A Message That Is Not Medical ClearanceBefore the ambulance siren faded at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday...
Eight Empty Columns: Where Bangladesh's Combat Sports Record Is Never WrittenThe ceiling fan in the small room beside the NSC gymnasium turned slowly. On...
The Empty Payload: Eight Questions of Martial-Arts Analysis and Bangladesh's Information VoidA file landed on my desk last week. No title, no source, no date. Only a labe...
Three Wrong Anthems: The Ledger Nobody Kept at the Para Games PodiumThe clock above the main para venue in Nagoya read 7:40 that evening. Behind...
The Empty Results Sheet: In Bangladeshi Martial Arts, the Missing Data Is the StoryLast week a results sheet arrived on my screen. Fourteen weight categories, a...
A Line in BoxRec's Ledger Is Not a World Standard: The Real Arithmetic of Ho Chi Minh City's Boxing DealThe announcement from the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Federation and BoxRec...
UFC 333: Volkanovski's 38 vs Evloev's Zero Finishes — The Count the Market MissedIt is 4:30 in the morning at a table in Dhaka. I play the Topuria knockout of...
The 63.5 kg Ceiling: Vietnam's National Sports Games Muay and the Missing Weight MapI begin with a count, because sport politics cannot be read without numbers. ...
ASIAD Kata Gold: Vietnam's Leap, the Table's Volatility and the Panel-Score ArithmeticBefore the number flashed on the scoreboard, the sound inside the hall was no...
Decided at the Scale: Korean Judo's Weigh-In Failure at the Asian Games and the Athlete-Welfare ReckoningJudo's most decisive moment is never televised. The tatami gets broadcast. Th...