Martial Arts
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of Empty Rows: Nine Unwatched Bouts and Eleven Headlines That Belonged to Someone Else2026-10-17There was a plastic chair in the room beside the gymnasium, a sheet of white...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, an Unresolved Move and a $32,000 Settlement: The Arithmetic of the Hidalgo Case2026-10-13The only witness to what happened inside the ring that night at the 11 de Jul...
Martial ArtsEight Dimensions, Zero Answers: The Combat-Sports Ledger Bangladesh Never Published2026-10-09Last month I took a sheet of paper. I drew eight rows on it and wrote eight...
Martial ArtsThe Martinete Death: Unwritten Danger in Lucha Libre2026-10-09Last Wednesday, October 7, an event in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, Mexico...
Shadow Outside the Ring: The Killing of a Philippine Boxing Magnate and the Invisible Ledger of Labor ExploitationThe sound of gunshots in a Las Vegas hotel parking lot drowned out the famili...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games — and Stops at 63.5 kgAn indoor hall inside a Public Service Provision Center in Ho Chi Minh City. ...
Zero Input, Eight Dimensions: Why the Null Result Is the Most Honest Verdict in Combat-Sports Analysis1:40 a.m. in Cheras. The laptop is open on a file with eight tables,...
Seventeen, Silver, and the Building Block: What a 6-0 World Karate Final Actually Tells UsI rewatched that final three times, each time with the sound off. What stays...
The Ledger of Empty Rows: Nine Unwatched Bouts and Eleven Headlines That Belonged to Someone ElseThere was a plastic chair in the room beside the gymnasium, a sheet of white...
A 75-Year-Old Referee, an Unresolved Move and a $32,000 Settlement: The Arithmetic of the Hidalgo CaseThe only witness to what happened inside the ring that night at the 11 de Jul...
Eight Dimensions, Zero Answers: The Combat-Sports Ledger Bangladesh Never PublishedLast month I took a sheet of paper. I drew eight rows on it and wrote eight...
The Martinete Death: Unwritten Danger in Lucha LibreLast Wednesday, October 7, an event in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, Mexico...
Medals Without a Source Chain: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Its Own BooksA fight-card poster from Dhaka landed on my phone last month. Four bouts, six...
Empty Ledger, Heavy Gloves: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Crisis and the Blockchain-Ledger TrapEmpty Ledger, Heavy Gloves: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Crisis and the...
42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Number That Still Doesn't Add Up42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Number That Still Doesn't Add Up A...
42–41 and 45–35: The Ledger Behind Singapore's Fencing Bronze, and the Truth Korea WroteThe feed reached my laptop in Chattogram a little before nine in the evening....
42–41: That Overtime Touch and the True Weight of Singapore's Épée BronzeThe piste is fourteen metres long. In the final second of overtime, the...
42–41 Doesn't Add Up: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ledger of an Incomplete ScoreboardA team épée match runs to 45 touches. The Singapore–Uzbekistan quarter-final...
The Sword Ledger: Singapore's First Asian Games Épée Team Bronze, the Blurred Receipt of 42–41, and Why Fencing Does Not Sit in My Martial Arts FileHook: Half Past Midnight, One Touch, and an Invoice Nobody Filed It was half...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: The 42–41 Touch and the Honest Arithmetic of 35–45Singapore's women's épée team reached an Asian Games podium for the first tim...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games — and Stops at 63.5 kgAn indoor hall inside a Public Service Provision Center in Ho Chi Minh City. ...
Zero Input, Eight Dimensions: Why the Null Result Is the Most Honest Verdict in Combat-Sports Analysis1:40 a.m. in Cheras. The laptop is open on a file with eight tables,...
Seventeen, Silver, and the Building Block: What a 6-0 World Karate Final Actually Tells UsI rewatched that final three times, each time with the sound off. What stays...
The Ledger of Empty Rows: Nine Unwatched Bouts and Eleven Headlines That Belonged to Someone ElseThere was a plastic chair in the room beside the gymnasium, a sheet of white...
A 75-Year-Old Referee, an Unresolved Move and a $32,000 Settlement: The Arithmetic of the Hidalgo CaseThe only witness to what happened inside the ring that night at the 11 de Jul...
Eight Dimensions, Zero Answers: The Combat-Sports Ledger Bangladesh Never PublishedLast month I took a sheet of paper. I drew eight rows on it and wrote eight...
The Martinete Death: Unwritten Danger in Lucha LibreLast Wednesday, October 7, an event in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, Mexico...
Medals Without a Source Chain: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Cannot Keep Its Own BooksA fight-card poster from Dhaka landed on my phone last month. Four bouts, six...
Empty Ledger, Heavy Gloves: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Crisis and the Blockchain-Ledger TrapEmpty Ledger, Heavy Gloves: Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Crisis and the...
42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Number That Still Doesn't Add Up42–41: Singapore's Fencing Bronze and the Number That Still Doesn't Add Up A...
42–41 and 45–35: The Ledger Behind Singapore's Fencing Bronze, and the Truth Korea WroteThe feed reached my laptop in Chattogram a little before nine in the evening....
42–41: That Overtime Touch and the True Weight of Singapore's Épée BronzeThe piste is fourteen metres long. In the final second of overtime, the...
42–41 Doesn't Add Up: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ledger of an Incomplete ScoreboardA team épée match runs to 45 touches. The Singapore–Uzbekistan quarter-final...
The Sword Ledger: Singapore's First Asian Games Épée Team Bronze, the Blurred Receipt of 42–41, and Why Fencing Does Not Sit in My Martial Arts FileHook: Half Past Midnight, One Touch, and an Invoice Nobody Filed It was half...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: The 42–41 Touch and the Honest Arithmetic of 35–45Singapore's women's épée team reached an Asian Games podium for the first tim...