Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Returns After Two Years: A New Test Awaits in Her Professional Boxing Debut in ParisImane Khelif Returns After More Than Two Years Away After winning the women's...
Sydney Fight Night: Star-Making for Salkilld or an Injustice to Saint Denis?On February 7 at Afterpay Arena in Sydney, Quillan Salkilld (26) and Benoît...
The Double 9.346: Reading Lê Hoàng's Dakar Youth Olympic Silver From the InsideLê Hoàng did not leave the waiting area after lowering the fan from his hand...
The Report With No Facts: Bangladesh's Combat Sports and the Void of Data-BlindnessOn paper, the report had eight chapters. It had headings, tables, confidence...
Army Dominance in South Asian Combat Sports: The Long Road from Training Ground to PodiumLast year, on the final day of the karate championship at the NSC Gymnasium i...
Eight Sections, Zero Facts: The Report That Could Not Record ItselfTuesday morning on the Bangkok desk I opened the file. Eight sections,...
The Empty-Cell Report: How Bangladeshi Combat Sports Survives on Perfectly Formatted 'Insufficient Information'3:07 a.m. It was 3:07 in the morning. Rain outside an eighth-floor window in...
One Label, Three Rings: How the 'Martial Arts' Tag Is Erasing Bangladesh's Combat-Sports AccountingThursday morning at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka, second row of the west galler...
UFC 333: The Real Question in Volkanovski–Evloev Is a Scorecard, Not a RecordIn December 2026 I sat in the indoor hall of the Khulna District Stadium and...
Lessons from an Empty Pipeline: Why Stage-1 Analysis Failed and the Real Crisis in Martial Arts Data JournalismAmong the 22 members of a boxing gym in Karachi was a young man named Nurul...
A Fifth-Round Knockout, a Stretcher at 39: Inside the UFC's Protocol Claim and the Ledger Behind ItOn September 26, at a UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas, Raoni Barcelos was carrie...
The Ring With No Records: Can Blockchain Recover Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Lost History?3 a.m. I opened an analysis file on a laptop screen in a Nagoya apartment....
The Story Inside 9.0400: Singapore's First Taekwondo Medal in NagoyaThe taekwondo hall in Nagoya. The poomsae — forms — final mat. Thousands have...
72 Percent Takedown Defense, Zero Sourcing: Auditing the Flyweight ThroneOn a Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds had become a way of listening. In June...
The Scorecard Was Published, the Medical Report Was Not: The Slam in Las Vegas That Rewrote Every NumberHook: Three Cards Published, One Report Still Missing Fence to the back. A...
The 42–41 Problem: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Quiet Re-Tiering of Asian FencingI did not watch it live. At 3:08 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment I opened a stream...
The Blade Ledger: One Overtime Touch and a Combat-Sports Category ErrorThe Blade Ledger: One Overtime Touch and a Combat-Sports Category Error Aichi...
42–41 and 35–45: How Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze Should Be ReadInside the Aichi Sky Expo I remember the two seconds before the small red lig...
Asian Games 2026: Singapore Women's Épée Team's First Bronze — A Ladder or Broken Glass?On a Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In 2026 I...
42–41: The Scoreline That Doesn't Match Its Own Rulebook42–41. At half past three in the morning, in a room in Mymensingh, that numbe...