Martial Arts
Vietnam's First Gold of the 2026 Asian Games: Women's Team Kata Beats Iran to Restore Supremacy
42–41 in Overtime: Singapore's Épée Bronze, and the Pathway Bangladesh Never Built
42–41 Is No Typo: How the Clock Wrote Singapore's Real Épée Bronze Story
42–41 in Overtime, Then 35–45: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze and the Distance Between Two Measurements
Dana White’s Political Proximity Poses a New Test for UFC’s IdentityDana White’s appearance at a Donald Trump briefing is the most visible frame ...
The Report That Came Back Empty: Bangladesh's Missing Combat-Sports LedgerAt half past eleven one night last November in Mymensingh, I opened a...
Vietnamese Karate Wins Three Medals: Team Kata Gold and Two Bronzes in Asian Games CompetitionVietnam's karate success in Japan deserves attention for more than its medal...
Testimony of Empty Columns: The Real Deficit in Combat Sports Is Not Talent, It Is RecordsEight columns. The table lay open in front of me, and every cell carried the...
Vietnam's First Gold of the 2026 Asian Games: Women's Team Kata Beats Iran to Restore SupremacyThe 20th Asian Games are underway in Japan's Aichi-Nagoya region, and Vietnam...
The Price of a Zero Report: Empty Cells, Category Errors and the Market Ledger in Combat SportsIt was three in the morning in a Kuala Lumpur studio when the weekly...
In the Shadow of the Package Piledriver: Lucha Libre's Governance Vacuum and the Market for OutrageI went to Karama for the match and left with the crowd. In the summer of 2026...
A Belt Nobody Owns: UFC's Interim Welterweight Crown in Makhachev's AbsenceNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka, no more than a hundred and fifty people, half...
Ring Geometry: A Fifth Round at 39, a Stretcher, and a Missing Scan ReportLast Saturday night, Las Vegas. Two minutes and twenty-seven seconds of the...
The Empty Ledger: What a Failed Data Pipeline Teaches Combat Sports About Verifiable RecordsLast night, in a small studio in Incheon, I opened a file and found nothing...
The Foundation-Cream General: Mirror Politics on the Battlefield, and One Keeper's LedgerJanuary 2026, a flat in Bangkok. The morning coffee is going cold, and on the...
Vietnam's October 3 Diary: The Gold It Expects Isn't in a Combat SportLast night, sitting on a plastic chair at a Bangsar mamak stall, the first li...
The October 3 Diary: Sepak Takraw's First Set and the Beat of JuJitsu, Taekwondo and Wrestling the Medal Table Never CountsThe October 3 Diary: Sepak Takraw's First Set and the Beat of JuJitsu,...
Full Ring, Empty Ledger: The Eight Layers of Bangladesh Combat Sports and Not a Single Reliable DatabaseHook I didn't watch it live. In a small Nagoya apartment, at three in the...
42–41 in Overtime: Singapore's Épée Bronze, and the Pathway Bangladesh Never BuiltHook On a Rajshahi rooftop I once counted a number — ninety seconds. Counting...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Where Singapore's Fencing Bronze Hit Korea's WallSingapore's first team medal on the Asian Games fencing piste arrived on a...
42–41 Is No Typo: How the Clock Wrote Singapore's Real Épée Bronze StoryIt was 5 a.m. in Colombo when the stream loaded — green on one side, blue on...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: A Block, Not the Whole ChainI didn't watch it live. The story broke from Aichi Sky Expo; I watched it fro...
The Report That Came Back Empty: Bangladesh's Missing Combat-Sports LedgerAt half past eleven one night last November in Mymensingh, I opened a...
Vietnamese Karate Wins Three Medals: Team Kata Gold and Two Bronzes in Asian Games CompetitionVietnam's karate success in Japan deserves attention for more than its medal...
Testimony of Empty Columns: The Real Deficit in Combat Sports Is Not Talent, It Is RecordsEight columns. The table lay open in front of me, and every cell carried the...
Vietnam's First Gold of the 2026 Asian Games: Women's Team Kata Beats Iran to Restore SupremacyThe 20th Asian Games are underway in Japan's Aichi-Nagoya region, and Vietnam...
The Price of a Zero Report: Empty Cells, Category Errors and the Market Ledger in Combat SportsIt was three in the morning in a Kuala Lumpur studio when the weekly...
In the Shadow of the Package Piledriver: Lucha Libre's Governance Vacuum and the Market for OutrageI went to Karama for the match and left with the crowd. In the summer of 2026...
A Belt Nobody Owns: UFC's Interim Welterweight Crown in Makhachev's AbsenceNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka, no more than a hundred and fifty people, half...
Ring Geometry: A Fifth Round at 39, a Stretcher, and a Missing Scan ReportLast Saturday night, Las Vegas. Two minutes and twenty-seven seconds of the...
The Empty Ledger: What a Failed Data Pipeline Teaches Combat Sports About Verifiable RecordsLast night, in a small studio in Incheon, I opened a file and found nothing...
The Foundation-Cream General: Mirror Politics on the Battlefield, and One Keeper's LedgerJanuary 2026, a flat in Bangkok. The morning coffee is going cold, and on the...
Vietnam's October 3 Diary: The Gold It Expects Isn't in a Combat SportLast night, sitting on a plastic chair at a Bangsar mamak stall, the first li...
The October 3 Diary: Sepak Takraw's First Set and the Beat of JuJitsu, Taekwondo and Wrestling the Medal Table Never CountsThe October 3 Diary: Sepak Takraw's First Set and the Beat of JuJitsu,...
Full Ring, Empty Ledger: The Eight Layers of Bangladesh Combat Sports and Not a Single Reliable DatabaseHook I didn't watch it live. In a small Nagoya apartment, at three in the...
42–41 in Overtime: Singapore's Épée Bronze, and the Pathway Bangladesh Never BuiltHook On a Rajshahi rooftop I once counted a number — ninety seconds. Counting...
From 42–41 to 35–45: Where Singapore's Fencing Bronze Hit Korea's WallSingapore's first team medal on the Asian Games fencing piste arrived on a...
42–41 Is No Typo: How the Clock Wrote Singapore's Real Épée Bronze StoryIt was 5 a.m. in Colombo when the stream loaded — green on one side, blue on...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: A Block, Not the Whole ChainI didn't watch it live. The story broke from Aichi Sky Expo; I watched it fro...