Martial Arts
Ruffy's 13 Knockouts, Tsarukyan's Spine: UFC 331's Co-Main Has the Market Pricing the Wrong Thing2026-09-26Hook: A Date, a Ledger, and a Spine At one in the morning in a six-person fla...
Eight Square Metres of Leitai: China's 56kg Monopoly and a Vietnamese Teenager's Arithmetic2026-09-26There is an old gym bag in the second drawer of my desk in Nagoya. Inside the...
Sauna, Syncope and 77 kg: Who Keeps the Ledger When a Weight Cut Goes Wrong at the Asiad2026-09-26Twenty-seven minutes by train from Nagoya Station, then a short walk. On a...
42–41: A Team That Held to the Last Touch, and Singapore's First Épée Bronze2026-09-26It is twenty minutes to two in the morning in a flat on the eleventh floor in...
42–41: The One Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History2026-09-2642–41: The One Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History It was past one i...
Duong Thuy Vi's Last Blade: Four Asiads, One Bronze, and the Gap in the Judges' Score Sheet2026-09-27Mid-morning in the Aichi-Nagoya event hall, and the women's jianshu scoreboar...
Martial ArtsDuong Thuy Vi's Last Blade: Four Asiads, One Bronze, and the Gap in the Judges' Score SheetMid-morning in the Aichi-Nagoya event hall, and the women's jianshu scoreboar...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Chair and the New Banner: The Beat Nobody Is Counting After the PFL–MVP MergerJuly 30. A merger announcement, two logos side by side, a promise about the...
Martial ArtsRuffy's 13 Knockouts, Tsarukyan's Spine: UFC 331's Co-Main Has the Market Pricing the Wrong ThingHook: A Date, a Ledger, and a Spine At one in the morning in a six-person fla...
Martial ArtsEight Square Metres of Leitai: China's 56kg Monopoly and a Vietnamese Teenager's ArithmeticThere is an old gym bag in the second drawer of my desk in Nagoya. Inside the...
Martial ArtsSauna, Syncope and 77 kg: Who Keeps the Ledger When a Weight Cut Goes Wrong at the AsiadTwenty-seven minutes by train from Nagoya Station, then a short walk. On a...
Martial Arts42–41 in a 45-Touch Game: The Overtime That Rewrote Singapore's Fencing HistoryA 45-touch team target. An electronic scoreboard glowing 42–41. And in...
Martial Arts42–41: A Team That Held to the Last Touch, and Singapore's First Épée BronzeIt is twenty minutes to two in the morning in a flat on the eleventh floor in...
Martial ArtsSingapore's Blade Reaches Bronze: What 42–41 and 35–45 Tell Us SeparatelyI was at my Osaka desk watching the women's team épée quarter-final at the...
Martial Arts42–41: The One Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History42–41: The One Touch That Wrote Singapore's Fencing History It was past one i...
Martial Arts42–41: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Small Gap in Fencing's Team ArithmeticOn the piste at Aichi Sky Expo, the last relay's scoreboard read 42–41. Asian...