Martial Arts
The Silver Fog of Dakar: A Medal Arrived, But Where Is the Pathway?
The Punch Inside the Clinch: Two Disqualifications in Three Months and the Ledger Ugandan Boxing Cannot Balance
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games: How the 63.5 kg Ceiling Is Reshaping the Combat Pipeline
The Leitai Ledger: In the Vietnam-vs-China 56kg Final, the Real Currency Is the Throw, Not the Punch
The Ledger of Empty Cells: An Eight-Dimension Combat Sports Analysis That Stopped for Want of Data
Dana White's Political Distance and the UFC Brand's New ConnectionWhen Dana White appeared at a highly publicized briefing in Washington and us...
Eight Columns, One Empty Cell: Why Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Analysis Stops Before It StartsThe file I opened at my desk on Monday morning carried no athlete's name in i...
Tatiana Suarez Reopens Her Road to the UFC Strawweight Title with Victory over Virna JandirobaThe judges' scorecards told a straightforward story after the fight in Las...
Martial Arts Analysis Stalls Without Evidence: Reliable Data Needed to Assess Fighters, Competitions and Market ValueA reliable combat-sports assessment begins with three basic questions: who is...
The Arithmetic of Six Rounds: Khelif's Paris Return and an Unresolved Governance DuelThe announcement sheet carried four numbers — 6, 2, 154, 27. I wrote them in...
The Silver Fog of Dakar: A Medal Arrived, But Where Is the Pathway?On a Rajshahi rooftop I do not count hours; I count seconds. That June in 202...
Empty Payload, Zero Analysis: Lessons from a Failed Pipeline Over Bangladesh's Combat SportsFourteen freeze-frames. The first image in my November 2026 post on Jeonbuk...
Martial Arts: From Ancient Discipline to Modern Competitive SportMartial arts occupy two worlds at once. On one side stands an ancient...
Two Weeks After a Fatal Head-Drop, the Wrestler Returned and Put Another Referee in the Same PositionThe events of last October in Mexican professional wrestling, known as lucha...
Empty File, Full Scorecard: When Martial Arts Analysis Collides With Three RulebooksHook A document landed on my desk last month. Eight chapters. Every chapter a...
The Ledger With No Punch ColumnThe article opens on a coach's old ledger inside the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka,...
The Punch Inside the Clinch: Two Disqualifications in Three Months and the Ledger Ugandan Boxing Cannot BalanceThe bell rang while the two heavyweights were still tangled. The referee was...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games: How the 63.5 kg Ceiling Is Reshaping the Combat PipelineThe sports hall at Ho Chi Minh City's Public Service Provision Center hosted...
Six to Nothing in Bielsko-Biała: Not a Quality Gap, a Distance LedgerThe scoreboard in the final read 6-0, and that single number pushed five...
That 6-0 in Bielsko-Biała: A Seventeen-Year-Old Vietnamese Karateka's Silver and the Missing CornerWatch that video out of a Vietnamese gym last March more carefully. The paddi...