Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Set for December 15 Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence, Faces Undefeated Clarida Sarabia in Paris
The Semifinal Wall and the 'Rain of Medals': How Deep Is Vietnam's Sanda Success Really?
Four Golds, One Blank Cell: The Documentary Void Beneath Bangladesh's Martial Arts
In Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Cell Is the Real Score
Combat Sports Analysis: The Real Test Is Evidence, Not Templates
Martial ArtsThe Ring in the White House: When Dana White Isn't Press Secretary, What Is the UFC Losing?Last month, when the cameras in the White House briefing room swung toward Da...
Martial ArtsImane Khelif Set for December 15 Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence, Faces Undefeated Clarida Sarabia in ParisImane Khelif is preparing to return to the professional boxing ring after mor...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Wall and the 'Rain of Medals': How Deep Is Vietnam's Sanda Success Really?Semifinals. Four of Vietnam's sanda representatives in four semifinals. Three...
Martial ArtsEmpty Files, Full Rings: The Archive Void Beneath Bangladesh's Combat SportsAt a quarter past three in the morning in a Nagoya flat I opened a document...
Martial ArtsFour Golds, One Blank Cell: The Documentary Void Beneath Bangladesh's Martial ArtsThere is an old red file in my Rajshahi flat, its corner torn, held together ...
Martial ArtsThe Stretcher After Round Five: What the Scorecard Never Recorded on Barcelos's NightMarch 2026, the last hour at the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Four days of the...
Martial ArtsIn Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Cell Is the Real ScoreNovember 2026. I was sitting in a room beside the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka,...
Martial ArtsEmpty Rows in the Ledger: What Coverage Silence Costs in Combat SportsEight columns. Across the head of an analysis ledger is written — combat...
Martial ArtsCombat Sports Analysis: The Real Test Is Evidence, Not TemplatesAny report on martial arts and combat sports should begin with one basic...
Martial ArtsEmpty Chairs, Full Screens: The Record Nobody Keeps in South Asian Combat SportsForty chairs were laid out in a Dhaka hotel ballroom. The weigh-in began at...
Martial ArtsNo Record, No Rounds: Bangladesh's Empty Combat-Sports LedgerThe team bus in Kathmandu was already idling. December 2026, the last morning...
Martial ArtsTakajo Tomofumi: Three Grand Slams and Judo's Invisible CliffDecember 2026, the Tokyo Grand Slam final. A judoka who entered the tournamen...
Martial ArtsWhose Ring, Whose Visa: A Las Vegas Bullet and the $432,928 Ledger of Philippine-Imported FightersA car stopped on a Las Vegas street. The forty-five-year-old man inside was...
Martial ArtsThe Cream-Foundation General: When History Itself Testified for the MirrorI write about martial arts and combat sports, so inside the ring my eye is...
Martial ArtsThe Martial Arts Data Void: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Analysis Is CollapsingIn more than twenty years of examining score sheets, entry lists, and...
Martial ArtsAfter Raoni Barcelos Leaves Hospital: A New Chapter of Health Scare in UFC's Late CareerWatching the footage of Raoni Barcelos being carried out on a stretcher at th...
Martial ArtsThe Ring, the Ledger and an Unfinished Chain: Accounting for Bangladeshi Combat SportsMy spiral notebook’s first page carried a single numeral — 47. In 2026, at th...
Martial ArtsSix Against One: China's Wall and Vietnam's Hammer in Sanda's 56kg — the Bout Being Sold as 'the Spirit of Kung Fu'I have rewound one moment from the Sanda World Cup in Macau more times than I...
Martial ArtsThe Honesty of an Empty Input: Why Combat Sports' Ledger Still Won't Get On-Chain145 Golds, and One Empty Table Last month an analysis engine opened eight...
Martial ArtsFrom 9.703 to 9.710: The Ledger Nobody Publishes in TaoluThe scoreboard at the end of the first routine carried the same number twice:...
Martial ArtsNot a Medal Rain but a Semifinal Ceiling: The Cash Audit of Vietnam's Wushu at Asiad 20On September 23, Vietnam's wushu team ended the day with four bronze medals a...