Martial Arts
4:54 in Abu Dhabi — Volkanovski's Left Hook, Evloev's First Loss, and an Incomplete Ledger
Virtual Taekwondo: Vietnam's Head Start in the Asian Games' Newest Medal Window, and the Questions Nobody Is Asking
The 0.05 Bronze: Singapore's First Asian Games Taekwondo Medal and the Limits of Counting Poomsae
Blockchain Ecosystem: Inequality, Protocol Fragmentation, and New Generation Alternatives
'Doing Great' Is Not Medical Clearance: A 39-Year-Old Barcelos, a Stretcher, and the Suspension That Is Coming Anyway
Three Cards Ahead, Then the Canvas: Barcelos, the Slam, and MMA's Missing Art of Falling
Dana White on the White House Stage: When the UFC Brand Stands in the President's ShadowA cramped, old gym on a side street in Wellawatte, Colombo. On a Wednesday...
Zero for Nine, Nine Minutes of Control — and a Fight Report With No Champion in ItThe scorecards carried three numbers — 30-27, 30-27, 29-28. The number that...
Buakaw at 44: One Decision Win, Three Unanswered QuestionsIt was 2:40 in the morning in Chattogram, the fan turning overhead, the last...
4:54 in Abu Dhabi — Volkanovski's Left Hook, Evloev's First Loss, and an Incomplete LedgerThe clock inside the cage read 4 minutes 54 seconds of the second round. The...
Ho Chi Minh City's BoxRec Deal: The Records It Will Build, The Sanctioning It Won'tA delegation walks into a Ho Chi Minh City boxing gym, then takes a ringside...
The Bare-Knuckle Ledger: 0:46, Meyer's 3-5, and a Hole in the DatesThe clock in the fourth round read 0:46. Jimmie Rivera's second knockdown, th...
The Number Nobody Counts on Rivera's Knockout Night: What Bare-Knuckle Boxing Teaches BangladeshThe Number Nobody Counts on Rivera's Knockout Night: What Bare-Knuckle Boxing...
The Nameless Payload: Why Combat Sports' Information Market Never BalancesThe file that landed on the desk at three in the morning had no headline, no...
The Medals Are Counted, the Money Is Not: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Needs a Public LedgerIn June 2026, after Bangladesh made 264 in the Champions Trophy semi-final...
Gold Arrives by Phone Call, History Stays on Blank Pages: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Archive CrisisOne dawn in December 2026. In my own room in Khulna, the alarm goes off at...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: Blockchain's Quiet Arithmetic in Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 2026. Inside Dhaka's NSC Gymnasium, the clatter of chairs being stacked...
Fourteen Chairs, One Empty Bout Sheet: The Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat SportsIn February 2026, the Dhaka South Asian Games handed Bangladesh four karate...
The Ledger of Silence: The Empty Rows Are Combat Sports' Real RecordLast month, at two in the morning in my Bangkok flat, I opened a spreadsheet....
Empty Rows, Invisible Ledger: Why South Asian Martial Arts Is Trapped by ClassificationI opened a file. The first page carried three words — Domain: martial arts....
Eight Pillars and One Empty Ledger: The Information Crisis in Combat-Sports AnalysisEight Pillars and One Empty Ledger: The Information Crisis in Combat-Sports...
The Powdered Blade: What History Says in China’s ‘Foundation-Cream General’ DebateOn a summer afternoon, a powerful minister was served a bowl of noodles in ho...
The Block of Empty Rounds: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Ledger, Services Dominance, and the Names That DisappearedA phone propped on the cap of a plastic water bottle, the cold bleachers of t...
Eight Columns, Zero Data: The Empty Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat-Sports AnalysisIn June 2026, at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka, no broadcaster would send a crew...