Martial Arts
Before Imane Khelif’s Return, the Real Test Is Governance, Not the OpponentA six-round bout at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualité is being presented as Iman...
The Ledger After the Ring Comes Down: A Las Vegas Shooting, a Los Angeles Judgment, and a Philippine Boxing FamilyThe ring came down in four hours. November 2026, a hotel ballroom in Dhaka,...
Not a Certificate, a Witness: The Untold Story of Three Wrong Anthems at the Hanoi Para GamesAt around seven in the morning, I was sitting in a corridor of a hall next to...
Seventeen-Year-Old Cam Tu: Silver Shines at the World Karate Stage, Five-Match Win Streak Ends in the FinalBielsko-Biała, Poland — At the World Youth and U21 Karate Championship,...
Vietnam’s 5-0 Kata Sweep: Judges’ Consensus, Narrow Margins and the Federation-Market QuestionThe five judges raised their cards in the same direction, and the scoreboard...
The Empty Ring of Data: What a Blank File Says About Martial-Arts ReportingIn March 2026, at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka, the Bangladesh Boxing...
The Punch After the Bell: Auditing Aziz Abdul's Two DisqualificationsThe bell had already rung, yet the two boxers were still tangled in a clinch....
Rivera’s 0:46: What the Promoter’s Sheet Left Blank Beside a Bare-Knuckle KnockoutAt three in the morning, at a Dhaka desk, the first number I wrote in the...
Empty Dataset, Full Stadium: Where Combat-Sports Analysis Collapses in BangladeshLast year I sat in an indoor venue in Dhaka watching a six-round professional...
Lack of Core Data in Blockchain News Analysis: Risk of Misrepresentation in a Two-Stage FrameworkA recent data-analysis report has revealed a serious problem in the second...
The Empty Field Is the Story: South Asian Combat Sports' Invisible PipelineI counted forty-six days in that gymnasium, and the beat counted me back....
Eight Pillars, Zero Information Points: The Empty Payload and the First Mile of Sports AnalysisTwo Empty Rooms In November 2026, fourteen professional bouts were held in a...
The 0.05 Bronze: Singapore's First Poomsae Medal in Nagoya and Bangladesh's Unfinished LedgerBefore the number rose on the Nagoya scoreboard, the silence in that hall was...
The Unpublished Poomsae Scoresheet: Singapore's First Medal Hangs on 0.05 and One RuleThree numbers came up on the scoreboard, and I was hunting a fourth. On 1...


