Martial Arts
Historic First: Le Hoang Wins Vietnam's First Medal at the Dakar Youth Olympics
UFC 333: The 37 Percent Age Base Rate Against Zero Finishes — The Real Arithmetic of a Title Fight
The Scorecard Nobody Filled In: Combat Sports' Quiet Data Failure
The Ledger Beneath the Ring: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Services Economy, and the Arithmetic of a Lost Season
Martial ArtsThat UFC Question at the White House Mic: Dana White's Political Proximity and the Boundary of SportIn the White House briefing room that day, hands went up over who would ask t...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Medal at Dakar Youth Olympics: Silver in Taiji Forms, but Questions on the Score SheetBefore the first light of dawn broke over the Youth Olympic Village in Dakar,...
Martial ArtsSame Score, Two Routines: From Dakar's Youth Olympic Silver to a Dhaka LessonA number caught my eye first thing in the morning: 9.346. Then the exact same...
Martial ArtsHistoric First: Le Hoang Wins Vietnam's First Medal at the Dakar Youth OlympicsDakar, Senegal — Vietnam's first medal at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games came...
Martial ArtsEight Chapters, Zero Names: The Empty Archive of Bangladesh's Combat SportsOn the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. It was Jun...
Martial ArtsFrom Khulna to Kathmandu: One Phone Call, Three Golds, and the Ledger That Never BalancedFirst week of December 2026. I was sitting in my room in Khulna, waiting for ...
Martial ArtsFrom the Cage to the Hospital and Back Home: Raoni Barcelos’s Health Scare and the UFC Safety QuestionA UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas ended in a frightening scene when...
Martial ArtsReferee Dies in Mexican Lucha Libre: Investigation Over Martinete Move, Promoter Offers Legal SupportA referee named Gerardo Germán Pineda, known in the ring as 'El Búho', has di...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Case File: Where There Is No Footage, a Verdict Is Also a FoulThat August evening at the Budokan is still stuck in a case file. Not kata —...
Martial ArtsZero Input, Zero Analysis: The Information-Integrity Crisis in Combat-Sports ReportingA strange document reached the sports desk. The header was perfectly in order...
Martial ArtsThe Blank Record: What Never Gets Written in South Asian Combat SportsThe scale sat on a folding table in a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty plastic...
Martial ArtsThree Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the First Medal of Aichi-Nagoya 2026Aichi Prefecture, Japan, September 22, 2026, afternoon. Three women on the ka...
Martial ArtsEmpty Ledger, Full Arena: Where the Combat-Sports Scoreboard Audit Never BalancesNovember 2026, one in the morning. The internet had just come back in a six-m...
Martial ArtsSalkilld vs. Saint Denis: UFC Fight Night Sydney Headliner Tests a Rising Local Star Against a Dangerous French FinisherUFC Fight Night Sydney will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Quilla...
Martial ArtsBoxRec's Ledger and the Missing Sanction: What the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Deal Actually Says"Trigger Promotion 9" is itself a data point. A ninth edition means eight cam...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: The 37 Percent Age Base Rate Against Zero Finishes — The Real Arithmetic of a Title FightAt three in the morning in a Nagoya apartment, I ran Movsar Evloev's ten UFC...
Martial ArtsThe Scorecard Nobody Filled In: Combat Sports' Quiet Data FailureA document landed on my desk last week. Eighteen boxes, and nearly every one ...
Martial ArtsZero Information Points: The Fake Block in Combat Sports' Analysis LedgerIn December 2026, at ringside in Kathmandu, I wrote three numbers in my...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Beneath the Ring: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Services Economy, and the Arithmetic of a Lost SeasonA March afternoon in 2026. Inside the NSC Gymnasium, the four-day national...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and a Settlement That Proves No GuiltThe man lying at the centre of the ring was 75 years old. Gerardo German...
Martial ArtsThe 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Ledger Nobody PublishedThe video is a few seconds long. Inside the 11 de Julio Sports and Cultural...
Martial ArtsThe Move Nobody Classified: A 75-Year-Old Referee's Death in a Mexican Ring and an Unfinished LedgerI still have that 2026 notebook page. Sitting in Dhaka's NSC gymnasium,...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, One Disputed Move, and the Permit Nobody SawHook On the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. I wou...
Martial ArtsThe Downbeat of an Empty Stage: When the Data Pipeline Stalls in Combat Sports AnalysisI counted forty-six days in the gymnasium, and the beat counted me back. In...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Medal at Dakar Youth Olympics: Silver in Taiji Forms, but Questions on the Score SheetBefore the first light of dawn broke over the Youth Olympic Village in Dakar,...
Martial ArtsSame Score, Two Routines: From Dakar's Youth Olympic Silver to a Dhaka LessonA number caught my eye first thing in the morning: 9.346. Then the exact same...
Martial ArtsHistoric First: Le Hoang Wins Vietnam's First Medal at the Dakar Youth OlympicsDakar, Senegal — Vietnam's first medal at the 2026 Youth Olympic Games came...
Martial ArtsEight Chapters, Zero Names: The Empty Archive of Bangladesh's Combat SportsOn the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. It was Jun...
Martial ArtsFrom Khulna to Kathmandu: One Phone Call, Three Golds, and the Ledger That Never BalancedFirst week of December 2026. I was sitting in my room in Khulna, waiting for ...
Martial ArtsFrom the Cage to the Hospital and Back Home: Raoni Barcelos’s Health Scare and the UFC Safety QuestionA UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas ended in a frightening scene when...
Martial ArtsReferee Dies in Mexican Lucha Libre: Investigation Over Martinete Move, Promoter Offers Legal SupportA referee named Gerardo Germán Pineda, known in the ring as 'El Búho', has di...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Case File: Where There Is No Footage, a Verdict Is Also a FoulThat August evening at the Budokan is still stuck in a case file. Not kata —...
Martial ArtsZero Input, Zero Analysis: The Information-Integrity Crisis in Combat-Sports ReportingA strange document reached the sports desk. The header was perfectly in order...
Martial ArtsThe Blank Record: What Never Gets Written in South Asian Combat SportsThe scale sat on a folding table in a Dhaka hotel ballroom, forty plastic...
Martial ArtsThree Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the First Medal of Aichi-Nagoya 2026Aichi Prefecture, Japan, September 22, 2026, afternoon. Three women on the ka...
Martial ArtsEmpty Ledger, Full Arena: Where the Combat-Sports Scoreboard Audit Never BalancesNovember 2026, one in the morning. The internet had just come back in a six-m...
Martial ArtsSalkilld vs. Saint Denis: UFC Fight Night Sydney Headliner Tests a Rising Local Star Against a Dangerous French FinisherUFC Fight Night Sydney will be headlined by a lightweight bout between Quilla...
Martial ArtsBoxRec's Ledger and the Missing Sanction: What the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Deal Actually Says"Trigger Promotion 9" is itself a data point. A ninth edition means eight cam...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: The 37 Percent Age Base Rate Against Zero Finishes — The Real Arithmetic of a Title FightAt three in the morning in a Nagoya apartment, I ran Movsar Evloev's ten UFC...
Martial ArtsThe Scorecard Nobody Filled In: Combat Sports' Quiet Data FailureA document landed on my desk last week. Eighteen boxes, and nearly every one ...
Martial ArtsZero Information Points: The Fake Block in Combat Sports' Analysis LedgerIn December 2026, at ringside in Kathmandu, I wrote three numbers in my...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Beneath the Ring: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Services Economy, and the Arithmetic of a Lost SeasonA March afternoon in 2026. Inside the NSC Gymnasium, the four-day national...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and a Settlement That Proves No GuiltThe man lying at the centre of the ring was 75 years old. Gerardo German...
Martial ArtsThe 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Ledger Nobody PublishedThe video is a few seconds long. Inside the 11 de Julio Sports and Cultural...
Martial ArtsThe Move Nobody Classified: A 75-Year-Old Referee's Death in a Mexican Ring and an Unfinished LedgerI still have that 2026 notebook page. Sitting in Dhaka's NSC gymnasium,...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, One Disputed Move, and the Permit Nobody SawHook On the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. I wou...
Martial ArtsThe Downbeat of an Empty Stage: When the Data Pipeline Stalls in Combat Sports AnalysisI counted forty-six days in the gymnasium, and the beat counted me back. In...