Martial Arts
A Headliner Label Is Not a Ranking Signal: Salkilld's Test in Sydney, Sold as a Coronation
El Buho's Last Night: A Death in Lucha Libre, a Disputed Move, and the Fight Between Footage and Headline
UFC 331: Twelve Seconds, Four Fights and One False 'Greatest Era'
Fasting, Sauna and 77kg: The Ledger of One Weight Cut at Asiad 2026
Ring Return: The Eligibility War Behind Imane Khelif's Professional DebutA six-round bout in a Paris hall. Two minutes per round. For women's...
No Fight to Analyze, Only a Warning About Data FailureHook When an analysis begins without the name of a fight, the fighters, the...
The Empty Column Is the Scoreboard: Bangladesh's Combat Sports and the Record Nobody KeptA file lay open in the office beside Dhaka's NSC gymnasium. Not a match repor...
Martial Arts: Olympic Recognition, Weight-Making and the Credibility of JudgingMartial arts comprise two parallel worlds. On one side are judo, taekwondo,...
The Quiet Crisis in Martial Arts Journalism: Category Errors, Evidence-Free Analysis and the Incomplete Ledger of Athlete SafetyIn international sports journalism, coverage of combat sports and martial art...
A Headliner Label Is Not a Ranking Signal: Salkilld's Test in Sydney, Sold as a CoronationThe announcement landed on my desk last week — Quillan Salkilld against Benoî...
The Kumite Ledger: A 17-Year-Old Vietnamese Silver, and the Story Buried Inside the 0-6 ScorelineWhen the scoreboard in the Bielsko-Biala hall read 0-6 in the closing round,...
El Buho's Last Night: A Death in Lucha Libre, a Disputed Move, and the Fight Between Footage and HeadlineEven after the lights go down, one frame lingers. At the 11 de Julio Sports a...
The Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports RecordThe Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports Record Hook...
The Empty Bout Sheet: A Ledger of Missing Data in Bangladesh's Combat SportsThe Empty Bout Sheet: A Ledger of Missing Data in Bangladesh's Combat Sports...
Buakaw at 44: The Second Win Came From Distance, Not KnockoutsThe loudest thing inside the ring at Chonburi's Max Muay Thai Stadium was an...
Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope: The Real Fight at 1,000 HP Is an Equipment FightI have stood ringside often enough to know how a scoreboard flattens a lifeti...
Ahead on All Three Cards, Carried Out on a Stretcher: Barcelos, Rosas, and the Ledger Nobody KeepsOne Second in the Fifth Round The fifth round, less than a minute left. Raoni...
The Medal Table Nobody Printed: Where Vietnam's Asiad 2026 Taekwondo Hope Actually LivesI put the Asiad 2026 taekwondo schedule into a spreadsheet, because that has...
Two Judges, Five Kilos and the Scorecard Nobody Published: The Real Ledger of Lò Thị Phung's Asiad ExitOn the afternoon of September 20, 2026, I sat on a veranda in Mymensingh with...
UFC 331: Thirteen Knockouts, One Back — And the Number the Market Isn't CountingTwo numbers are lit on the board: −275 and +225. Strip the bookmaker's margin...
UFC 331: Twelve Seconds, Four Fights and One False 'Greatest Era'The record book says UFC 331 was a coronation night. The scorecard says Joshu...
Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold: The 5-0 Kata Final and the Medal Table's Misfiled ArithmeticOn the fourth evening of the Asian Games in Japan I got stuck on a number. Th...
Fasting, Sauna and 77kg: The Ledger of One Weight Cut at Asiad 2026The Nepali athlete who opened the sauna door thought the room was empty. It w...
Six Golds and One Stretcher: China's Monopoly, Vietnam's Arithmetic, and the Sanda 56kg FinalSix. Open the International Wushu Federation's (IWUF) results ledger and the...
PFL–MVP Merger: The MVP MMA Rebrand, the Executive Exit, and the Unfinished Story Written in ContractsA boxing gym in Mirpur. The December light is giving out. On a corner chair...
0.133 Points and Five Asiads: Duong Thuy Vi and the Quiet Arithmetic of TaoluThree numbers lit up the scoreboard: 19.546, 19.446, 19.413. At the 20th Asia...
PFL-MVP Merger: CEO John Martin Resigns Within Two Months — A New Chapter in U.S. Combat Sports IndustryWhen John Martin took over as CEO after the PFL-MVP merger nearly two months...
The 56kg Sanda Final: Vietnam vs China — What the Ledger Actually SaysSemifinal, second round. The referee's hand went up before the bell. Stretche...
42–41: The Medal I Never Saw From a Nagoya Window at 3 A.M., and the Arithmetic That Still Won't Close42–41: The Medal I Never Saw From a Nagoya Window at 3 A.M., and the Arithmet...
42–41 and an Unfinished Ledger: The Real Arithmetic Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeOn the piste at Aichi Sky Expo the board read 42–41. Women's team épée,...
Bronze Without Winning a Bronze Bout: Singapore's Épée Quartet Near Nagoya, and Fencing's Wrong Filing Under 'Martial Arts'I did not watch it live. Forty-two kilometres. You can ride the Meitetsu Main...
No Fight to Analyze, Only a Warning About Data FailureHook When an analysis begins without the name of a fight, the fighters, the...
The Empty Column Is the Scoreboard: Bangladesh's Combat Sports and the Record Nobody KeptA file lay open in the office beside Dhaka's NSC gymnasium. Not a match repor...
Martial Arts: Olympic Recognition, Weight-Making and the Credibility of JudgingMartial arts comprise two parallel worlds. On one side are judo, taekwondo,...
The Quiet Crisis in Martial Arts Journalism: Category Errors, Evidence-Free Analysis and the Incomplete Ledger of Athlete SafetyIn international sports journalism, coverage of combat sports and martial art...
A Headliner Label Is Not a Ranking Signal: Salkilld's Test in Sydney, Sold as a CoronationThe announcement landed on my desk last week — Quillan Salkilld against Benoî...
The Kumite Ledger: A 17-Year-Old Vietnamese Silver, and the Story Buried Inside the 0-6 ScorelineWhen the scoreboard in the Bielsko-Biala hall read 0-6 in the closing round,...
El Buho's Last Night: A Death in Lucha Libre, a Disputed Move, and the Fight Between Footage and HeadlineEven after the lights go down, one frame lingers. At the 11 de Julio Sports a...
The Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports RecordThe Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports Record Hook...
The Empty Bout Sheet: A Ledger of Missing Data in Bangladesh's Combat SportsThe Empty Bout Sheet: A Ledger of Missing Data in Bangladesh's Combat Sports...
Buakaw at 44: The Second Win Came From Distance, Not KnockoutsThe loudest thing inside the ring at Chonburi's Max Muay Thai Stadium was an...
Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Hope: The Real Fight at 1,000 HP Is an Equipment FightI have stood ringside often enough to know how a scoreboard flattens a lifeti...
Ahead on All Three Cards, Carried Out on a Stretcher: Barcelos, Rosas, and the Ledger Nobody KeepsOne Second in the Fifth Round The fifth round, less than a minute left. Raoni...
The Medal Table Nobody Printed: Where Vietnam's Asiad 2026 Taekwondo Hope Actually LivesI put the Asiad 2026 taekwondo schedule into a spreadsheet, because that has...
Two Judges, Five Kilos and the Scorecard Nobody Published: The Real Ledger of Lò Thị Phung's Asiad ExitOn the afternoon of September 20, 2026, I sat on a veranda in Mymensingh with...
UFC 331: Thirteen Knockouts, One Back — And the Number the Market Isn't CountingTwo numbers are lit on the board: −275 and +225. Strip the bookmaker's margin...
UFC 331: Twelve Seconds, Four Fights and One False 'Greatest Era'The record book says UFC 331 was a coronation night. The scorecard says Joshu...
Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold: The 5-0 Kata Final and the Medal Table's Misfiled ArithmeticOn the fourth evening of the Asian Games in Japan I got stuck on a number. Th...
Fasting, Sauna and 77kg: The Ledger of One Weight Cut at Asiad 2026The Nepali athlete who opened the sauna door thought the room was empty. It w...
Six Golds and One Stretcher: China's Monopoly, Vietnam's Arithmetic, and the Sanda 56kg FinalSix. Open the International Wushu Federation's (IWUF) results ledger and the...
PFL–MVP Merger: The MVP MMA Rebrand, the Executive Exit, and the Unfinished Story Written in ContractsA boxing gym in Mirpur. The December light is giving out. On a corner chair...
0.133 Points and Five Asiads: Duong Thuy Vi and the Quiet Arithmetic of TaoluThree numbers lit up the scoreboard: 19.546, 19.446, 19.413. At the 20th Asia...
PFL-MVP Merger: CEO John Martin Resigns Within Two Months — A New Chapter in U.S. Combat Sports IndustryWhen John Martin took over as CEO after the PFL-MVP merger nearly two months...
The 56kg Sanda Final: Vietnam vs China — What the Ledger Actually SaysSemifinal, second round. The referee's hand went up before the bell. Stretche...
42–41: The Medal I Never Saw From a Nagoya Window at 3 A.M., and the Arithmetic That Still Won't Close42–41: The Medal I Never Saw From a Nagoya Window at 3 A.M., and the Arithmet...
42–41 and an Unfinished Ledger: The Real Arithmetic Behind Singapore's Fencing BronzeOn the piste at Aichi Sky Expo the board read 42–41. Women's team épée,...
Bronze Without Winning a Bronze Bout: Singapore's Épée Quartet Near Nagoya, and Fencing's Wrong Filing Under 'Martial Arts'I did not watch it live. Forty-two kilometres. You can ride the Meitetsu Main...