Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Set to Return After Two Years: Governance Questions Loom Larger Than the Comeback
Vietnam's first Asian Games gold: History in karate kata, a leap into Southeast Asia's top three
The 4:54 Ledger: Volkanovski's Win, Evloev's First Loss, and the Three Columns Left Blank
The Empty Weigh-In Sheet: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Crisis Is the Archive, Not the Talent
The Verdict Before the Bullets: A Philippine Boxing Promoter, His Fighters, and $432,928
Nine Failed Takedowns, Nine Minutes of Control: Tatiana Suarez Returns to the Strawweight Title ConversationThe first statistic from Tatiana Suarez's latest fight appears to describe a...
Imane Khelif Set to Return After Two Years: Governance Questions Loom Larger Than the ComebackA six-round bout at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualité may offer the most reveali...
Missing Evidence Halts Combat Sports Assessment: No Reliable Verdict on Fighters, Events or CompetitionMissing Evidence Leaves Combat Sports Analysis at a Standstill Before...
9.346, 9.346: The Number That Returns Twice on Vietnam's Silver DayThe applause stopped just as the second 9.346 lit up the scoreboard. I had my...
A Null Input, a Null Report: Why Analyzing a Fight You Can't See Is the Real DangerLast week, sitting down to write a match report, I suddenly remembered what I...
Vietnam's first Asian Games gold: History in karate kata, a leap into Southeast Asia's top threeDateline: 22 September, 14:20 — Japan A new name has entered the medal table ...
The Ledger Nobody Keeps: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Write Its Own ScorecardNovember 2026. The first professional boxing card after eight months of...
The 4:54 Ledger: Volkanovski's Win, Evloev's First Loss, and the Three Columns Left BlankAt three in the morning, from a flat in Bangkok, I kept my eyes on a laptop...
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: Bangladesh's Empty Combat-Sports ArchiveOn an evening in 2026, a Dhaka hotel ballroom had forty chairs laid out for a...
Zero Finishes in 10 UFC Fights: UFC 333's Real Question Is the Scorecard, Not VolkanovskiThe most repeated question about the UFC 333 main event is simple: can Movsar...
The Empty Weigh-In Sheet: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Crisis Is the Archive, Not the Talent1. The Empty Report Card The report card stayed open on my desk until six in...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: Red Boxing International, a Default Judgment and Boxing’s Invisible Labor MarketThe last instruction was a single one: do not move. Friends standing outside...
The Verdict Before the Bullets: A Philippine Boxing Promoter, His Fighters, and $432,928Three men. At a Las Vegas address, after dark, three men. A 45-year-old was...
Nobody Keeps the Paper Outside the RingMarch 2026, the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation's...
No Record Is Not No Risk: Combat Sports Analysis, Eight Dimensions, and the Lesson of a Null InputIn May 2026, sitting inside an indoor venue in Dhaka, I broke down six rounds...
Imane Khelif Set to Return After Two Years: Governance Questions Loom Larger Than the ComebackA six-round bout at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualité may offer the most reveali...
Missing Evidence Halts Combat Sports Assessment: No Reliable Verdict on Fighters, Events or CompetitionMissing Evidence Leaves Combat Sports Analysis at a Standstill Before...
9.346, 9.346: The Number That Returns Twice on Vietnam's Silver DayThe applause stopped just as the second 9.346 lit up the scoreboard. I had my...
A Null Input, a Null Report: Why Analyzing a Fight You Can't See Is the Real DangerLast week, sitting down to write a match report, I suddenly remembered what I...
Vietnam's first Asian Games gold: History in karate kata, a leap into Southeast Asia's top threeDateline: 22 September, 14:20 — Japan A new name has entered the medal table ...
The Ledger Nobody Keeps: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Write Its Own ScorecardNovember 2026. The first professional boxing card after eight months of...
The 4:54 Ledger: Volkanovski's Win, Evloev's First Loss, and the Three Columns Left BlankAt three in the morning, from a flat in Bangkok, I kept my eyes on a laptop...
Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens: Bangladesh's Empty Combat-Sports ArchiveOn an evening in 2026, a Dhaka hotel ballroom had forty chairs laid out for a...
Zero Finishes in 10 UFC Fights: UFC 333's Real Question Is the Scorecard, Not VolkanovskiThe most repeated question about the UFC 333 main event is simple: can Movsar...
The Empty Weigh-In Sheet: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Crisis Is the Archive, Not the Talent1. The Empty Report Card The report card stayed open on my desk until six in...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: Red Boxing International, a Default Judgment and Boxing’s Invisible Labor MarketThe last instruction was a single one: do not move. Friends standing outside...
The Verdict Before the Bullets: A Philippine Boxing Promoter, His Fighters, and $432,928Three men. At a Las Vegas address, after dark, three men. A 45-year-old was...
Nobody Keeps the Paper Outside the RingMarch 2026, the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation's...
No Record Is Not No Risk: Combat Sports Analysis, Eight Dimensions, and the Lesson of a Null InputIn May 2026, sitting inside an indoor venue in Dhaka, I broke down six rounds...