Martial Arts
Ending at 63.5 kg: Muay Thai's Missing Half at Vietnam's National Games
The Table Nobody Built: The Data Black Hole in Bangladesh's Combat Sports
RAF Abu Dhabi: Two Cruiserweight Belts, One Blur, and the Structural Truth of Freestyle Wrestling
After the Medal: Who Coaches, Who Pays, Who Stays in Bangladeshi Martial Arts
In the Shadow of Empty Data: Combat-Sports Analysis Faces a Reliability TestA second-stage deep analysis framework was launched on an article concerning...
The Deep Structure of Modern Combat Sports: A Three-Way Equation of Technique, Commerce and SafetyModern combat sports can no longer be reduced to the simple question of who...
The Fight Nobody Watched Outside the Ring: A Promoter's Death in Las Vegas and the Labor Politics of Philippine BoxingThe sound of gunfire in a Las Vegas hotel parking lot and the end of a...
Ending at 63.5 kg: Muay Thai's Missing Half at Vietnam's National GamesThe boy on the scale before the first bout of the day did not look older than...
From the Buriram Ring to the Cell: A Muay Thai Fighter's Three Punches, an Old Man's Death, and the Governance Vacuum of Provincial FightingA September afternoon. Sunlight lies on the courtyard of a rural house in...
The Table Nobody Built: The Data Black Hole in Bangladesh's Combat SportsLast month I opened a file. The heading said analysis across eight pillars....
RAF Abu Dhabi: Two Cruiserweight Belts, One Blur, and the Structural Truth of Freestyle WrestlingWhen Arman Tsarukyan's name flickers from the Etihad Arena mat into the camer...
The Ledger of Empty Columns: Where Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record-Chain Breaks at Every LinkNovember 2026, the second gallery of the NSC Gymnasium in Paltan. On the seco...
After the Medal: Who Coaches, Who Pays, Who Stays in Bangladeshi Martial ArtsNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka. Not a single spectator in the gallery. That...
Asiad 2026: Tuyết Vân's Younger Sister's Real Surprise Lies in Virtual Taekwondo — and the Line No Headline CarriedThe headline is posed as a question: will the younger sister of world champio...
From 9.703 to 9.710: Thuy Vi's Fourth Asiad and a Missing Ledger in Wushu TaoluAt the wushu arena in Aichi-Nagoya, the sword routine stopped at 9.703 — dead...
The Leitai Ledger: Vietnam vs China in the 56kg Sanda Final and the Price of a MonopolyOn September 24, two teenagers will stand in the centre of a leitai. One is...
The Semifinal Wall: Reading Vietnam's Wushu Bronzes as a LedgerOn the evening of September 23, standing beside the raised platform — the lei...
Two Months After the Merger, the CEO Is Gone: Who Actually Holds the Keys in the PFL–MVP RebrandChattogram, 4:50 a.m. The call to prayer drifts through the window of a rente...
The Blank Columns: Tsarukyan vs. Ruffy in the UFC 331 Lightweight Co-MainEvery fight card gets three columns in my notebook. The first holds what the...
UFC 331: The Small Line That Says Five Rounds Already Tells You Where the Story Is GoingWhen the referee's name goes on the sheet — Jason Herzog, five rounds, co-mai...