Martial Arts
Martial Arts Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Where Are the Real Stories of Competition, Coaching and Fighter Development?2026-11-09Martial Arts Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: The Missing Picture of...
Silver at 18.692 in Dakar: Vietnam's First Medal, Decoded by the 0.028 That Separated the Champion2026-11-057:43 in the morning. I hadn't even picked up my tea on the Rajshahi terrace i...
The Analysis Crisis in Combat Sports: Why Missing Data Makes Fighting the Riskiest Sport2026-10-31Modern combat sports—mixed martial arts, professional boxing, kickboxing, Mua...
Three Wrong Anthems: Asian Para Games Ceremony Governance and Vietnam's Narrow Medal Arithmetic2026-10-23I stay in the hall after the medal ceremony ends. It is a professional habit;...
After the Martinete: A Referee's Death in Hidalgo and the Liability Vacuum of Independent Lucha Libre2026-10-09I have watched the video eight times — a twelve-second clip, dust floating in...
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...
Martial ArtsTwo Judges' Cards, One Extra Round: Where Lo Thi Phung's Asian Games Loss Leaves the Real QuestionSeptember 20, late afternoon sliding into evening. The small gym in Colombo...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Where Are the Real Stories of Competition, Coaching and Fighter Development?Martial Arts Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: The Missing Picture of...
Martial ArtsThe Injury That Breaks the Odds: How Tsarukyan's Back Changes the UFC 331 CalculusWhen Arman Tsarukyan and Mauricio Ruffy step into the octagon at Crypto.com...
Martial ArtsOne Silver, Two Clocks: Vietnam's First Medal in Dakar's LedgerFor the past few days a small number has been sitting on my desk — 0.028. It ...
Martial ArtsSilver at 18.692 in Dakar: Vietnam's First Medal, Decoded by the 0.028 That Separated the Champion7:43 in the morning. I hadn't even picked up my tea on the Rajshahi terrace i...
Martial ArtsA Decimal Gap in Dakar: Why Le Hoang's Silver for Vietnam's First Youth Olympic Medal Should Not Be Read as a Simple VictoryAt six in the morning my Osaka desk phone lit up with a scoreline: 9.346,...
Martial ArtsThe Crisis of Martial Arts Journalism: When the Analysis Becomes the ReportThe buffering circle spun on the screen. November 2026, 2 a.m., from a Nagoya...
Martial ArtsThe Analysis Crisis in Combat Sports: Why Missing Data Makes Fighting the Riskiest SportModern combat sports—mixed martial arts, professional boxing, kickboxing, Mua...
Martial ArtsOne Ledger, Two Sports: Where Bangladesh's Martial Arts Accounting Goes WrongKATHMANDU, December 2026 — I was sitting in the back row of the press gallery...
Martial ArtsThree Wrong Anthems: Asian Para Games Ceremony Governance and Vietnam's Narrow Medal ArithmeticI stay in the hall after the medal ceremony ends. It is a professional habit;...
Martial ArtsThe 63.5 kg Wall: Where Muay Thai Drew Its Own Border at Vietnam's National Sports GamesFor six years now, the number I sit beside at ringside has mattered more to m...
Martial ArtsEight Empty Boxes: The Combat Sports Ledger Bangladesh Never Learned to KeepI read the paper twice. Eight bold headings. Under each heading, a table; in...
Martial ArtsFrom the Bielsko-Biala Mat to the Kuala Lumpur Deal Sheet: The Silver of a 17-Year-Old Vietnamese Karateka Is Really a Pricing StoryThe scoreboard in the Bielsko-Biala hall read 0-6 before the final was even...