Martial Arts
Two Worlds of Martial Arts: The Discipline of the Scoreboard and the Market of the Ring2026-11-011. Introduction: three sports under one umbrella. The biggest trap in writing...
RAF 14: Dillon Danis's T-shirt Sells the Card, Arman Tsarukyan's Risk Pays for It2026-10-23The loudest sound in the Fontainebleau conference room on Friday was a chair...
Thirteen Centimetres and the Wrong Question: What Rivera's Knockout Does Not Prove2026-10-21Fourth round, 0:46. Meyer goes down for the second time, the referee waves it...
Foundation-Caked Generals: The Six Dynasties Mirror of Today's Warrior2026-10-08I didn't watch it live. I watched it from a small apartment in Nagoya, at thr...
Stretcher, CT Scan and Five Rounds: The Empty Column in Raoni Barcelos's Ledger2026-09-29The Saturday night fight card had already turned into Monday morning in...
Suarez Back in Title Conversation: The Win, the Claim, and the Missing VoicesTatiana Suarez defeated Virna Jandiroba by unanimous decision in the co-main...
Nine Minutes of Control, Zero Takedowns, and One Extra Claim in a HeadlineThe light on the Rajshahi rooftop is going, and the notebook is open. On the...
Controlled Re-Entry: The Tactics Behind Khelif's Pro Boxing ReturnSix rounds, two minutes each, at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris. No title,...
Vietnam's First Medal at Dakar Youth Olympics: The Silent Arithmetic of Taolu18.692 versus 18.720 — the 0.028-point gap is the real story, not the colour ...
The Gymnasium Hidden in the Army's Shadow That Holds Bangladesh's First Medal HopeMarch 2026, late afternoon at the NSC Gymnasium in Dhaka. Stacked chairs,...
The Gym-Bag Camera in Dhaka: Bangladesh's Martial Arts Journalism, Empty Frames and a New Reading CycleSeptember 2026, on the return flight from Jakarta, a twenty-one-year-old...
Two Worlds of Martial Arts: The Discipline of the Scoreboard and the Market of the Ring1. Introduction: three sports under one umbrella. The biggest trap in writing...
Eight Columns, Zero Data: Combat Sports' Real Crisis Sits in the Records, Not the RingThe file opened at two in the morning in Incheon. Rain outside, laptop light...
Salkilld vs Saint Denis: In Sydney, the Real Question Is the Clock, Not the RecordLast week, at two in the morning, I ran Quillan Salkilld's last four fights...
Five Judges, 5-0, and a 0.42-Point Gap: The Real Ledger Behind Vietnam's Karate Kata GoldThe story did not begin in a Dhaka newsroom. I did not watch the women's team...
Stretchered to hospital after fifth-round KO, Barcelos later says he is 'doing great'Brazilian UFC bantamweight veteran Raoni Barcelos was stretchered out of the...
After the Bell: How Aziz Abdul's Two Disqualifications Became a Pattern Nobody Is ReadingNairobi. October 2026. The bell sounded to end the third round. Two...
RAF 14: Dillon Danis's T-shirt Sells the Card, Arman Tsarukyan's Risk Pays for ItThe loudest sound in the Fontainebleau conference room on Friday was a chair...
UFC 333: The Zero Buried Inside Movsar Evloev's 20-0 RecordIn 2026 I counted fourteen chairs in the press row at the NSC Gymnasium in...
The Blank Pages of the Record Book: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Is Losing Its Own HistoryIn late 2026, at a hotel ballroom in Dhaka, the weigh-in had forty chairs. Th...
Thirteen Centimetres and the Wrong Question: What Rivera's Knockout Does Not ProveFourth round, 0:46. Meyer goes down for the second time, the referee waves it...
Gold on the Other End of the Line, a Blank Line in the LedgerLast winter I opened an old spreadsheet at my home in Khulna, because a phone...
The Testimony of an Empty Table: Where a Fight Leaves No Record, What Can Blockchain Prove?Eight columns, eight questions. Every answer came back identical: insufficien...