Martial Arts
From 'Eating Rice Better' to Two Golds: The Number Nobody Counts in Chi Thanh's Case
Bangladesh Combat Sports in the Transfer Window: Four Decades of Failure and a New Beginning
Before the Golden Chapter, a Silver Question: How Vietnam's First Medal Exposed the Wushu Scoreboard's Gaps
The Fight Inside the Empty Column: Records, Federations and Missing Pathways in Bangladesh's Martial Arts
Inside the Clinch, Aziz ‘Ringo’ Abdul Breaks: The Ledger Behind Two Disqualifications in Three Months
One Question, Two Grammars: What the Nunes–Harrison Ledger Records, and What Nobody Wrote DownThe sweat on Julianna Peña's canvas had not dried yet. June 7, 2026, New York...
From 'Eating Rice Better' to Two Golds: The Number Nobody Counts in Chi Thanh's Case"I took up karate so I could eat rice better." The line belongs to Chi Thanh....
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring as a Six-Round Bout Exposes the IOC-IBA DivideThe ring at Maison de la Mutualite in Paris will be prepared for six rounds o...
Bangladesh Combat Sports in the Transfer Window: Four Decades of Failure and a New BeginningThe last afternoon at Dhaka's NSC Gymnasium is still vivid. March 2026, the...
First Teqball Medal, Karate Kata Bronze: Vietnam's New Medal GeographyHook Vietnam's first medal at Asiad 20 came from a curved table. In the mixed...
A Silver Worth More Than Gold: Auditing Vietnam's First Medal at the Dakar Youth Olympic GamesI didn't watch the moment live. At 4 a.m. Dakar time, 7 a.m. Vietnam time, th...
Before the Golden Chapter, a Silver Question: How Vietnam's First Medal Exposed the Wushu Scoreboard's GapsThe Dakar air smells of wet salt. Local time was about 8:30 PM. I am sitting ...
The Fight Inside the Empty Column: Records, Federations and Missing Pathways in Bangladesh's Martial ArtsThere is a spreadsheet on my laptop. I call it "ring geometry." Every...
The Bell at Nairobi: Aziz Abdul's Sucker Punch and Amateur Boxing's Unwritten LedgerHook The bell rang in a Nairobi ring at an odd moment — as two heavyweights...
Inside the Clinch, Aziz ‘Ringo’ Abdul Breaks: The Ledger Behind Two Disqualifications in Three MonthsThe bell went in Nairobi while the two heavyweights were still tangled in a...
A Fight Outside the Ring: The Promoter's Death That Exposed Philippine Boxing's Labor DarknessThe shooting death of a promoter in Las Vegas has prompted an outpouring of...
The Ledger That Never Cleared: A Las Vegas Promoter's Death and a $432,928 JudgmentThree figures in the garage light. Two with weapons in hand, the third waitin...
The Empty Payload: Bangladesh's Martial Arts Problem Isn't Missing Data — It's Missing RecordsIt was 3 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment. The analysis file on my screen was...
The October 3 Asian Games Diary: The Quiet Arithmetic of Qualifiers Beside the Sepak Takraw FinalMarch 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation...
Two Teenagers on the Leitai: Vietnam's Throw Against China's Six-of-Seven DynastyAn eight-meter square leitai, eighty centimeters off the floor. No ropes, no...
The Ledger of Silence: The Blank Columns of Combat SportsJune 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. Finals night at the National Boxing...
The Empty Data Pipeline: Why Asia's Combat Sports Scouting System Is FailingI start every fight card with a number. In November 2026, 24 hours before a O...
From Three Crore to Zero: Pakistan's Wrestling, the February 2027 Clock, and Dhaka's Four GoldsI count, because every athlete is somebody. In June 2026, on a Rajshahi...
The File Nobody Published: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Need a Blockchain LedgerA December evening in 2026. On a friend's phone, a live stream from the NSC...