Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Set for Professional Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence Amid Unresolved Eligibility Controversy
Three 48-47 Cards and a Forgotten Weight Cut: The Real Arithmetic Behind Chimaev vs. Strickland
The Ring Without a Record: Why South Asia's Combat Sports Still Reach for the Ledger Before the Blockchain
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers That Wrote Singapore Fencing's Breakthrough and Its Ceiling
Gold Without Records: Four Karate Medals and One Empty FileLast week a spreadsheet answered me in one line: insufficient information. I...
Imane Khelif Set for Professional Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence Amid Unresolved Eligibility ControversyAlgerian Olympic gold medallist Imane Khelif is preparing to return to...
The Lei Tai Ceiling: Reading Vietnam's Four-Bronze Day Through the Semifinal LineAt 2 a.m. Osaka time on September 23, I refreshed the scoreboard three times....
The Price of Kung Fu in Shaolin's Shadow: $14,400 a Year, Millions Over Nine YearsThe hills around Dengfeng in China's Henan province are no longer just a...
Three 48-47 Cards and a Forgotten Weight Cut: The Real Arithmetic Behind Chimaev vs. StricklandThe buffer read three numbers in sequence: 48-47, 48-47, 48-47. About thirty ...
Two Belts, One Champion: The Count the UFC Is Quietly Advancing While Makhachev Sits OutThe poster opened on my phone at 3:40 a.m. from a balcony in Dhaka. Two lines...
The Zero Report: How Bangladesh's Martial Arts Could Not Even Write Down Its Own NameThe report carried no fighter's name. No date, no source, no scorecard, no...
Thirteen Centimetres and a 3-5 Record: Rivera's Knockout Was a Promoter's Arithmetic, Not a Competitive Statement0:46 of the fourth round. Two knockdowns already banked, Meyer upright only o...
The 63.5 kg Wall: Muay Thai's Weight Architecture and a Ledger of Silence at Vietnam's National Sports GamesThe men's entry list read like a printing error at first. 45–48 kg, 48–51,...
Gold on the Other End of the Line: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Kept Falling Outside the LedgerI counted every punch by hand, and the numbers still breathe. It was February...
From the Ring to the Ledger: Purses, Stipends and the Quiet Bid of Blockchain in Combat SportsFrom the Ring to the Ledger: Purses, Stipends and the Quiet Bid of Blockchain...
Blockchain News Source Failure: Lessons from an Empty-Content AnalysisIn the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency journalism, information...
The Ring Without a Record: Why South Asia's Combat Sports Still Reach for the Ledger Before the BlockchainThe first morning of those forty-six days at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka in 20...
Testimony of the Empty Cell: What Combat-Sports Reporting Learns When the Data Chain BreaksMarch 2026. Inside the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka, 2,800 people. The Bangladesh...
The Scouting Report Buried Inside an Asiad 20 Diary: What Vietnam's Three Combat Disciplines Tell BangladeshLast night, on the second floor of an old gym in Colombo's Borella district,...
Not 45-41, but 42-41: The Overtime That Touched Singapore's Fencing HistoryNot 45-41, but 42-41: The Overtime That Touched Singapore's Fencing History...
42–41 in the Ledger: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and a Classification ErrorThe first thing I wrote in the ledger that night was not a medal. It was a...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers That Wrote Singapore Fencing's Breakthrough and Its CeilingThe Weight of One Green Light 42–41. I put the numbers down first, because in...
42–41: One Touch, Three Games of Wall — Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeHook From corridor seven of the Aichi Sky Expo, the scoreboard was three pace...
42–41: The One Touch That Made Singapore's Épée History — And What the 35–45 Gap to Korea Really Says42–41. One touch, and the quarter-final wall cracked The Uzbekistan match...
Singapore's Historic Épée Team Bronze at the Asian Games: Overtime Drama and the Korean WallSingapore's women's épée team claimed a historic bronze at the 2026...