Martial Arts
Dana White’s Political Proximity: A Test of UFC Promotion, Visibility and Credibility
Nobody in the Ring Stopped It. The Crowd Did: A Death in Mexico and the Rule That Was Never Written
Volkanovski Stopped Evloev in Round Two, but the Win Came From Boxing, Not Grappling
What the Electronic Scoreboard Says: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ten-Touch Gap to Korea
Chi Thanh's Double Gold: From a Rice-Bowl Excuse to 80kg Kumite, and the Weighing Scale Nobody Counts
Dana White’s Political Proximity: A Test of UFC Promotion, Visibility and CredibilityHook: Octagon language on a political stage At a political briefing, UFC chie...
Chi Thanh's Double Gold: From a Rice-Bowl Excuse to 80kg Kumite, and the Weighing Scale Nobody CountsAt 1:20 in the morning in Osaka, with cold tea on the left of the desk and an...
Four Golds, Zero Pathways: Where Did Bangladesh's Martial Arts Disappear?On a Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June 2026...
Two Weapons, Two Routines, One Legacy: Vietnam's Duong Thuy Vi Reaches the Podium at a Fourth Asian GamesAt 33, Vietnamese wushu veteran Duong Thuy Vi claimed bronze in the women's...
Nobody in the Ring Stopped It. The Crowd Did: A Death in Mexico and the Rule That Was Never WrittenTwo men were inside the ring at Arena San Juan Pantitlán in Nezahualcóyotl th...
Nobody Wrote It Down: The Empty Ledger of Bangladeshi Combat SportsNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka, maybe 150 people, more than half of them...
Volkanovski Stopped Evloev in Round Two, but the Win Came From Boxing, Not GrapplingThe clock read 4:54 of round two. Movsar Evloev had his back near the cage,...
The Bout That Disappears Outside the Record: What the Ho Chi Minh City–BoxRec Cooperation Really MeansA boxing gym in Ho Chi Minh City stays damp after dusk. Around the Trigger...
Kneeling at the Scale: A 100-Gram Failure and the Uneven Ledger of Blame in Korean JudoThe scale stopped at 50.4 kilograms, and before she could step onto the judo...
The Scale That Stopped a Career: The Quiet Weigh-In Failure Inside Korean JudoThere is always a plastic tray in the weigh-in room. The tray the medals go...
Forty Chairs and Twelve Thousand Screens: Where Did Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Audience Go?Forty folded chairs arranged in four rows on a hotel ballroom's polished floo...
The Blank-Page Block: Combat Sports' Information Void and Blockchain's Unfinished LedgerI counted forty-six days in the gymnasium, and in the end that ledger counted...
The Empty Scorecard: A Ledger of Silence on Bangladesh's Martial-Arts BeatThe last week of June, a balcony in Bangkok. On the laptop screen sits an...
An Asiad Day-Sheet and Four Karate Golds: My Open Register Beside the Vietnam–Thailand FinalCount it. October 3. On that day-sheet for Vietnam's Asian Games delegation,...
The Ledger of the Blade: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Asian Gap Nobody CountsThe Ledger of the Blade: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Asian Gap Nobody...
42–41 Is Real, the 'Rise' Is Not Yet Proven: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Ten-Touch WallThe scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo's épée piste read 42–41. A team épée rel...
A Ten-Touch Wall: Singapore's Épée Quartet, the 42–41 Night, and the Korea CeilingAt the 3rd pavilion of the Aichi Sky Expo, I stopped mid-way through picking ...
Épée Team Bronze: The 42–41 Touch, Korea's 35–45, and Singapore's Fencing Ledger42–41. When the final touch lit up on the electronic board, Singapore's four...
42–41: That Touch at Aichi Sky Expo and the True Weight of Singapore's Épée BronzeIt is just past one in the morning at my Osaka desk. The mewatch stream arriv...
42–41: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze, and the Ten-Touch Gap to Korea That Still StandsIt was past midnight in Colombo, the desk lamp still on and a laptop screen...
One Overtime Touch and a 45-Touch Ledger: How Singapore's Fencing Bronze Should Be ReadAt the Aichi Sky Expo fencing strip the evening had gone quiet. The electroni...
What the Electronic Scoreboard Says: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ten-Touch Gap to KoreaHook The last touch of the match lit the machine, and the board read 42–41....
Five Hands, One Bronze: Learning to Read Karate's ScoreboardHook Five judges raised their hands, and the result read 5-0. Vietnam's team...
Chi Thanh's Double Gold: From a Rice-Bowl Excuse to 80kg Kumite, and the Weighing Scale Nobody CountsAt 1:20 in the morning in Osaka, with cold tea on the left of the desk and an...
Four Golds, Zero Pathways: Where Did Bangladesh's Martial Arts Disappear?On a Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June 2026...
Two Weapons, Two Routines, One Legacy: Vietnam's Duong Thuy Vi Reaches the Podium at a Fourth Asian GamesAt 33, Vietnamese wushu veteran Duong Thuy Vi claimed bronze in the women's...
Nobody in the Ring Stopped It. The Crowd Did: A Death in Mexico and the Rule That Was Never WrittenTwo men were inside the ring at Arena San Juan Pantitlán in Nezahualcóyotl th...
Nobody Wrote It Down: The Empty Ledger of Bangladeshi Combat SportsNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka, maybe 150 people, more than half of them...
Volkanovski Stopped Evloev in Round Two, but the Win Came From Boxing, Not GrapplingThe clock read 4:54 of round two. Movsar Evloev had his back near the cage,...
The Bout That Disappears Outside the Record: What the Ho Chi Minh City–BoxRec Cooperation Really MeansA boxing gym in Ho Chi Minh City stays damp after dusk. Around the Trigger...
Kneeling at the Scale: A 100-Gram Failure and the Uneven Ledger of Blame in Korean JudoThe scale stopped at 50.4 kilograms, and before she could step onto the judo...
The Scale That Stopped a Career: The Quiet Weigh-In Failure Inside Korean JudoThere is always a plastic tray in the weigh-in room. The tray the medals go...
Forty Chairs and Twelve Thousand Screens: Where Did Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Audience Go?Forty folded chairs arranged in four rows on a hotel ballroom's polished floo...
The Blank-Page Block: Combat Sports' Information Void and Blockchain's Unfinished LedgerI counted forty-six days in the gymnasium, and in the end that ledger counted...
The Empty Scorecard: A Ledger of Silence on Bangladesh's Martial-Arts BeatThe last week of June, a balcony in Bangkok. On the laptop screen sits an...
An Asiad Day-Sheet and Four Karate Golds: My Open Register Beside the Vietnam–Thailand FinalCount it. October 3. On that day-sheet for Vietnam's Asian Games delegation,...
The Ledger of the Blade: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Asian Gap Nobody CountsThe Ledger of the Blade: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Asian Gap Nobody...
42–41 Is Real, the 'Rise' Is Not Yet Proven: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Ten-Touch WallThe scoreboard at the Aichi Sky Expo's épée piste read 42–41. A team épée rel...
A Ten-Touch Wall: Singapore's Épée Quartet, the 42–41 Night, and the Korea CeilingAt the 3rd pavilion of the Aichi Sky Expo, I stopped mid-way through picking ...
Épée Team Bronze: The 42–41 Touch, Korea's 35–45, and Singapore's Fencing Ledger42–41. When the final touch lit up on the electronic board, Singapore's four...
42–41: That Touch at Aichi Sky Expo and the True Weight of Singapore's Épée BronzeIt is just past one in the morning at my Osaka desk. The mewatch stream arriv...
42–41: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze, and the Ten-Touch Gap to Korea That Still StandsIt was past midnight in Colombo, the desk lamp still on and a laptop screen...
One Overtime Touch and a 45-Touch Ledger: How Singapore's Fencing Bronze Should Be ReadAt the Aichi Sky Expo fencing strip the evening had gone quiet. The electroni...
What the Electronic Scoreboard Says: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ten-Touch Gap to KoreaHook The last touch of the match lit the machine, and the board read 42–41....
Five Hands, One Bronze: Learning to Read Karate's ScoreboardHook Five judges raised their hands, and the result read 5-0. Vietnam's team...