Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Set for Professional Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence, Eligibility Dispute RemainsIn a modest Paris venue, Imane Khelif is preparing to put her gloves back on....
The Ledger of Empty Cells: The Biggest Combat-Sports Story Was Never PrintedJune 2026. The National Boxing Championship at the NSC gymnasium. There was n...
Anatomy of an Empty Payload: How a Combat-Sports Analysis Wrote Its Own Limits Without Touching the PaperSeven in the morning. The old army block at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. I'm...
Barcelos Is ‘Doing Great’; the CT Scan Has Not Spoken YetThe fifth-round bell rang in the Las Vegas Octagon, the referee stepped in, a...
The Score Sheet Nobody Published: Thuy Vi's Four Asiad Medals and Vietnam's Missing SuccessorZero point zero zero seven. A 9.703 in the jianshu routine, a 9.710 in the...
One Label, Three Sports, Zero AccountabilityDecember 2026, mixed zone of the covered hall in Kathmandu. A team official...
Karate’s 5-0: A Panel Vote, a State Ledger and Vietnam’s Kata PipelineThe scoreboard in Toyohashi read 5-0, and the easy story wrote itself outside...
Three Wrong Anthems, One Podium: Para Games Host Failure and Vietnam's Narrow Medal EconomyBehind every medal podium there is a laptop, a sound console, and a printed...
Las Vegas Ring: The Belt Costs More Than the Tsarukyan–Danis BoutThree seconds after the T-shirt went up at the press conference, Arman...
The Report That Arrived Empty: Counting a Week of Silence on the Martial Arts DeskThe file landed on the desk on a Tuesday morning, and its first cell was empt...
Adjectives in the Headline, $432,928 in the Docket: The Two Faces of Boxing Promoter Rodis, Killed in Las VegasThe bullet was fired in Las Vegas. I read about it in a one-room flat in...
Reading the Empty Payload: When Martial-Arts Analysis Returns ZeroI once counted fourteen chairs at the 2026 National Karate Championship at th...
The Empty Field Is the Story: Where Bangladesh's Combat Sports Record Has No NamesThe Empty Field Is the Story: Where Bangladesh's Combat Sports Record Has No...
A 75-Year-Old Referee, a 'Banned' Move, and Lucha Libre's Unfinished LedgerA 75-year-old man lying on a wrestling mat. A crowd around him, a few...
An Empty Stage-1 Report and 43 Years of Lessons: What a Data-Pipeline Failure Means at the Martial Arts DeskFebruary 2026. In the dormitory beside the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka, I woke at...
The Ledger of Blank Pages: When Silence in Combat-Sports Coverage Becomes the Evidence"Eight pillars. Not one of them filled." That morning I opened the analysis...
Barcelos' Stretcher, Rosas' Rise: How the Fifth Round Flipped All Three Scorecards in a UFC Main EventI rewound last night's UFC main event three times. There was no bell in that...
Notes from Empty Data: The Day All Eight Sections of the Martial-Arts Desk Went SilentEight sections. All eight empty. No name, no date, no weight class, no fight...
The Martinete in Hidalgo: A Referee's Death and the Liability Vacuum of Independent Lucha LibreThe referee's name was Gerardo Germán Pineda, known in the ring as 'El Búho' ...
Who Keeps the Ring's Ledger: Blockchain's Quiet Test in Combat SportsMarch 2026. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation's national championship is runni...
The Empty File Is the StoryThe Empty File Is the Story Forty chairs in a Dhaka hotel ballroom. The...
The Ledger Nobody Wrote: Bangladesh's Unpublished Martial Arts Medal TableOn Tuesday night in Mymensingh, a table opened on my laptop screen. Eight...
Fourteen Chairs, One Empty Scoreboard: The Unwritten Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat SportsNovember 2026, NSC Gymnasium, Paltan. The second night of the National Karate...