Martial Arts
UFC 333: Volkanovski's Real Opponent Is Not Evloev, It's 37 Percent
Powder on a Warrior's Face: The Real Story of China's 'Foundation-Caked Generals'
Four Karate Golds, Zero Pathways, and an Empty Ledger
Vietnam's ASIAD Karate Kata Gold: The Missing Line in the Medal-Table Ledger
Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold: The Number Nobody Read on the Kata Scoreboard
The File That Came Back Empty: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Have Medals but No RecordsLast month, close to eleven at night, I opened a laptop on a Rajshahi rooftop...
UFC 333: Volkanovski's Real Opponent Is Not Evloev, It's 37 PercentLast night, in my Cheras flat, I ran through all ten of Movsar Evloev's UFC...
What an Empty Data Frame Teaches: Information Discipline in Bangladesh's Combat Sports ReportingIn June 2026 I sat on a Rajshahi rooftop with a clock, and the clock was a...
The List That Stops at 63.5 kg: What Muay Thai at Vietnam's National Sports Games Actually SignalsThe notice from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports was ope...
No Door Above 63.5 kg: The Real Muay Story at Vietnam's National Sports Games Is the Weight TableThe first thing I do with any competition schedule is print it. Then I take a...
Zero to Six: A Seventeen-Year-Old's Karate Silver and Vietnam's LedgerIn a dojo in Borella, Colombo, the laptop screen was small and the room was...
A Death in a Mexican Ring Seen from Nagoya: Lucha Libre and the Performance-Safety GapI didn't see it live; I watched from a Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. through a...
The Empty Cell: Pakistan Wrestling's Rs30 Million Ask, a Zero Grant, and the 2027 ClockThe mud is wet. In the early light at a clay pit in Punjab, three or four oil...
Powder on a Warrior's Face: The Real Story of China's 'Foundation-Caked Generals'A general stands right in the middle of the battlefield — armour gleaming, fa...
Five Cards, Zero Doubt: Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Dynasty at Asiad 20The moment the last judge's card flipped, I wrote a number on the top page of...
A Referee Died From a Martinete: In a Ring With No Commission, Who Keeps the Ledger of Liability?I keep an old notebook. I call it the ledger. It holds the money, and it hold...
The Leitai Ledger: After Six Golds at 56kg, the Number Nobody PrintedIn August 2026 karate entered the Olympic stage for the first time in Tokyo,...
Not a Rain of Bronzes but a Semifinal Wall: Vietnam's Sanda ArithmeticOn the twenty-third of September, four bronzes landed on Vietnam's delegation...
The Edge of the Leitai: Vietnam's Twenty-One-Year-Old, China's Six-Gold Wall, and the Arithmetic of 56kgEight metres by eight. Eighty centimetres off the ground. Calling the sanda...
Four Karate Golds, Zero Pathways, and an Empty LedgerJune 2026. A plastic chair, a mobile phone and a thick notebook on a Rajshahi...
Cropped Hair, One Breath: Why Vietnam's Team Kata Keeps Its Gold When the Coach ChangesMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. The last night of a four-day national...
Vietnam's ASIAD Karate Kata Gold: The Missing Line in the Medal-Table LedgerThe scoreboard said 5-0. On Japanese soil, at the ASIAD 2026 karate final,...
One Bronze, 0.133 Points and Five Asian Games: The Last Chapter of Dương Thúy ViIt was half past midnight in Colombo, and on a phone screen a...
50-45, 49-46, 49-47: Three Flyweight Scorecards, One Fight — and a Title Still Waiting for VerificationInside the cage at Crypto.com Arena, five rounds ended and three judges still...
UFC 333: Volkanovski's Real Opponent Is Not Evloev, It's 37 PercentLast night, in my Cheras flat, I ran through all ten of Movsar Evloev's UFC...
What an Empty Data Frame Teaches: Information Discipline in Bangladesh's Combat Sports ReportingIn June 2026 I sat on a Rajshahi rooftop with a clock, and the clock was a...
The List That Stops at 63.5 kg: What Muay Thai at Vietnam's National Sports Games Actually SignalsThe notice from the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports was ope...
No Door Above 63.5 kg: The Real Muay Story at Vietnam's National Sports Games Is the Weight TableThe first thing I do with any competition schedule is print it. Then I take a...
Zero to Six: A Seventeen-Year-Old's Karate Silver and Vietnam's LedgerIn a dojo in Borella, Colombo, the laptop screen was small and the room was...
A Death in a Mexican Ring Seen from Nagoya: Lucha Libre and the Performance-Safety GapI didn't see it live; I watched from a Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. through a...
The Empty Cell: Pakistan Wrestling's Rs30 Million Ask, a Zero Grant, and the 2027 ClockThe mud is wet. In the early light at a clay pit in Punjab, three or four oil...
Powder on a Warrior's Face: The Real Story of China's 'Foundation-Caked Generals'A general stands right in the middle of the battlefield — armour gleaming, fa...
Five Cards, Zero Doubt: Inside Vietnam's Team Kata Dynasty at Asiad 20The moment the last judge's card flipped, I wrote a number on the top page of...
A Referee Died From a Martinete: In a Ring With No Commission, Who Keeps the Ledger of Liability?I keep an old notebook. I call it the ledger. It holds the money, and it hold...
The Leitai Ledger: After Six Golds at 56kg, the Number Nobody PrintedIn August 2026 karate entered the Olympic stage for the first time in Tokyo,...
Not a Rain of Bronzes but a Semifinal Wall: Vietnam's Sanda ArithmeticOn the twenty-third of September, four bronzes landed on Vietnam's delegation...
The Edge of the Leitai: Vietnam's Twenty-One-Year-Old, China's Six-Gold Wall, and the Arithmetic of 56kgEight metres by eight. Eighty centimetres off the ground. Calling the sanda...
Four Karate Golds, Zero Pathways, and an Empty LedgerJune 2026. A plastic chair, a mobile phone and a thick notebook on a Rajshahi...
Cropped Hair, One Breath: Why Vietnam's Team Kata Keeps Its Gold When the Coach ChangesMarch 2026, the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. The last night of a four-day national...
Vietnam's ASIAD Karate Kata Gold: The Missing Line in the Medal-Table LedgerThe scoreboard said 5-0. On Japanese soil, at the ASIAD 2026 karate final,...
One Bronze, 0.133 Points and Five Asian Games: The Last Chapter of Dương Thúy ViIt was half past midnight in Colombo, and on a phone screen a...
50-45, 49-46, 49-47: Three Flyweight Scorecards, One Fight — and a Title Still Waiting for VerificationInside the cage at Crypto.com Arena, five rounds ended and three judges still...