Martial Arts
Tatiana Suarez Back in the Title Picture — But the Question Remains
Empty Chairs and Missing Weight Classes: Who Remembers That Night at Dhaka's Technical Hall?
What Does Not Survive After the Tenth Day: The Half-Life of Achievements and the Ledger of Repeated Absence in Bangladesh's Combat Sports
The Emptiness Trap: In Combat-Sports Coverage, 'Nothing Found' Does Not Mean 'No Risk'
The Thirty Seconds Before the Mat: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Story Nobody Wrote
The Price of 100 Grams: A Korean Judoka's Tears at the Asian Games and Her Coach's Resignation
Martial ArtsDana White at the White House: UFC, Political Access and the Need for VerificationDana White’s appearance at a White House briefing raises a question that has...
Martial ArtsDana White Didn't Take the Press Secretary Job — But UFC's Brand Account Collected the Political CapitalLast week, after a morning sparring session at a gym in Chattogram, I watched...
Martial ArtsTatiana Suarez Back in the Title Picture — But the Question RemainsIn the co-main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Tatia...
Martial ArtsSix Rounds, Twelve Minutes, One Empty Sanctioning Column: Imane Khelif's Paris ReturnHook I opened the bout sheet and did not read the name first. My eye went to...
Martial ArtsEmpty Chairs and Missing Weight Classes: Who Remembers That Night at Dhaka's Technical Hall?In the 2026 National Karate Championship, the red notebook in my hand had its...
Martial ArtsLe Hoang's silver hands Vietnam its first medal at Dakar Youth Olympics 2026Vietnam has its first medal of the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, and it...
Martial ArtsWhat Does Not Survive After the Tenth Day: The Half-Life of Achievements and the Ledger of Repeated Absence in Bangladesh's Combat SportsNovember 2026, a hotel ballroom in Dhaka. A twenty-foot by twenty-foot ring,...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Cells Tell the Story: Counting Martial Arts Coverage from a Broken DocumentLast month a colleague sent me a file. He said it was a broken document—one...
Martial ArtsVietnam's 'Kindergarten Teacher' Lo Thi Phung: From a Mountain Village to the Asian Games RingOn the afternoon of September 20, Vietnam's Lo Thi Phung lost to Lee Bomi of...
Martial ArtsThe Emptiness Trap: In Combat-Sports Coverage, 'Nothing Found' Does Not Mean 'No Risk'A document lands on a sports desk in the morning. It has a headline. It has...
Martial ArtsThe Thirty Seconds Before the Mat: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Story Nobody WroteThe light is nearly gone. Three of them stand at the edge of the tatami — han...
Martial ArtsFourteen Days After the Head-Drop: The Verdict No Lucha Commission Would GiveI rewatched the footage until the crowd noise stopped mattering. 6 October, t...
Martial ArtsFrom 66kg to the Dock: The Fall of a Japanese Judo Star and the Silence of a SystemI was at my Osaka desk, reading the headline of a small television report fro...
Martial ArtsThe Price of 100 Grams: A Korean Judoka's Tears at the Asian Games and Her Coach's ResignationThe display on the scale stopped at 50.4 kg. That number is the tolerance...
Martial ArtsBlockchain Technology: A New Horizon of Trust in the Digital AgeBlockchain technology is one of the most discussed and promising innovations ...
Martial ArtsThe Hidalgo Ledger: A 75-Year-Old Referee's Death, a Disputed Move, and an Unpermitted ShowI stopped the video seven times. Each time it lands on the same frame: an old...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Nobody Keeps: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Record, and Blockchain's Impossible PromiseThe Ledger Nobody Keeps: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Record, and...
Martial ArtsEmpty Tape, Honest Scoreboard: Reading a Null Result in the Combat-Sports Data PipelineI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back. What...
Martial ArtsOne Cell Called 'Martial Arts': Where Many Fights DisappearOne Cell Called 'Martial Arts': Where Many Fights Disappear One winter mornin...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is Vietnam's Wall: The Hidden Arithmetic Behind Four Bronzes in One DayThe last hour at the Nagoya venue. The crowd had gone, the chairs were stacke...
Martial ArtsEmpty Tables, Full Rings: The Invisible Gap in South Asian Combat Sports AnalysisHook A May 2026 evening. In a Dhaka hotel ballroom, the weigh-in for "The...
Martial ArtsDana White Didn't Take the Press Secretary Job — But UFC's Brand Account Collected the Political CapitalLast week, after a morning sparring session at a gym in Chattogram, I watched...
Martial ArtsTatiana Suarez Back in the Title Picture — But the Question RemainsIn the co-main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Tatia...
Martial ArtsSix Rounds, Twelve Minutes, One Empty Sanctioning Column: Imane Khelif's Paris ReturnHook I opened the bout sheet and did not read the name first. My eye went to...
Martial ArtsEmpty Chairs and Missing Weight Classes: Who Remembers That Night at Dhaka's Technical Hall?In the 2026 National Karate Championship, the red notebook in my hand had its...
Martial ArtsLe Hoang's silver hands Vietnam its first medal at Dakar Youth Olympics 2026Vietnam has its first medal of the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, and it...
Martial ArtsWhat Does Not Survive After the Tenth Day: The Half-Life of Achievements and the Ledger of Repeated Absence in Bangladesh's Combat SportsNovember 2026, a hotel ballroom in Dhaka. A twenty-foot by twenty-foot ring,...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Cells Tell the Story: Counting Martial Arts Coverage from a Broken DocumentLast month a colleague sent me a file. He said it was a broken document—one...
Martial ArtsVietnam's 'Kindergarten Teacher' Lo Thi Phung: From a Mountain Village to the Asian Games RingOn the afternoon of September 20, Vietnam's Lo Thi Phung lost to Lee Bomi of...
Martial ArtsThe Emptiness Trap: In Combat-Sports Coverage, 'Nothing Found' Does Not Mean 'No Risk'A document lands on a sports desk in the morning. It has a headline. It has...
Martial ArtsThe Thirty Seconds Before the Mat: Vietnam's Team Kata Gold and the Story Nobody WroteThe light is nearly gone. Three of them stand at the edge of the tatami — han...
Martial ArtsFourteen Days After the Head-Drop: The Verdict No Lucha Commission Would GiveI rewatched the footage until the crowd noise stopped mattering. 6 October, t...
Martial ArtsFrom 66kg to the Dock: The Fall of a Japanese Judo Star and the Silence of a SystemI was at my Osaka desk, reading the headline of a small television report fro...
Martial ArtsThe Price of 100 Grams: A Korean Judoka's Tears at the Asian Games and Her Coach's ResignationThe display on the scale stopped at 50.4 kg. That number is the tolerance...
Martial ArtsBlockchain Technology: A New Horizon of Trust in the Digital AgeBlockchain technology is one of the most discussed and promising innovations ...
Martial ArtsThe Hidalgo Ledger: A 75-Year-Old Referee's Death, a Disputed Move, and an Unpermitted ShowI stopped the video seven times. Each time it lands on the same frame: an old...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Nobody Keeps: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Record, and Blockchain's Impossible PromiseThe Ledger Nobody Keeps: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, the Empty Record, and...
Martial ArtsEmpty Tape, Honest Scoreboard: Reading a Null Result in the Combat-Sports Data PipelineI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back. What...
Martial ArtsOne Cell Called 'Martial Arts': Where Many Fights DisappearOne Cell Called 'Martial Arts': Where Many Fights Disappear One winter mornin...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is Vietnam's Wall: The Hidden Arithmetic Behind Four Bronzes in One DayThe last hour at the Nagoya venue. The crowd had gone, the chairs were stacke...
Martial ArtsEmpty Tables, Full Rings: The Invisible Gap in South Asian Combat Sports AnalysisHook A May 2026 evening. In a Dhaka hotel ballroom, the weigh-in for "The...