Martial Arts
Martial ArtsVietnam’s Karate Gold: Historic Moment, but How Sustainable Is the Medal-Table Leap?2026-11-07The three Vietnamese athletes stood together after the result in the women’s...
Martial ArtsRivera's Fourth-Round Knockout and the Bare-Knuckle Numbers the Promoter Writes Himself2026-10-21Forty-six seconds into the fourth round. In Osaka, at two in the morning, the...
Martial ArtsEmpty Chairs and Unfinished Ledgers: Eight Layers of Bangladesh's Combat Sports2026-10-07In June 2026, on the second day of the national boxing championships, I was...
Martial ArtsTestimony of an Empty File: Who Keeps the Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat Sports2026-10-02Twenty-seven boxes. Every one returned the same line — insufficient...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is Vietnam's Ceiling: Reading the Ledger Behind Four Asiad Bronzes2026-09-26On the evening of September 23 I wrote four names into the notebook. Before...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Gold at ASIAD 2026: What the 5-0 Team Kata Scoreline Actually Says2026-09-26On the afternoon of September 22, 2026, I sat on my veranda in Mymensingh...
Imane Khelif Returns After Two Years Away, Set for Professional Boxing Debut in Paris on December 15Algerian Olympic champion Imane Khelif is preparing to return to competitive...
Vietnam’s Karate Gold: Historic Moment, but How Sustainable Is the Medal-Table Leap?The three Vietnamese athletes stood together after the result in the women’s...
Asiad 2026 and Vietnam’s Taekwondo Market: Hidden Opportunity in Virtual Event, Inflated Poomsae ExpectationsAt the Vietnam national team camp, the scale showed five kilograms less durin...
Vietnam's Virtual Taekwondo Medal Bid: The Edge Is the Headset, Not the HistoryThe round starts with a thousand health points. Drop the opponent's counter t...
Vietnam's Kata Gold: Three Reckonings Still Unsettled Beneath the 5-0 Scoreline22 September, 2:20 in the afternoon. One number sat on the scoreline: 5-0. On...
The Door Closes at 63.5 kg: What Muay's Opening Slot at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games Actually RevealsThe schedule sheet looks routine at first. In the competition calendar of the...
A Blank Page With Eight Doors: In Martial Arts Analysis, ‘No Data’ and ‘No Risk’ Are Not the Same ThingMarch 2026. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation's national championship at the N...
Rivera's Fourth-Round Knockout and the Bare-Knuckle Numbers the Promoter Writes HimselfForty-six seconds into the fourth round. In Osaka, at two in the morning, the...
The Ledger Nobody Keeps Outside the Ring: Combat Sports' Invisible Payout SheetLast month a press release landed in my inbox. Eight hundred words, a bout...
One Ring, One Death, and Three Gaps in the LedgerAt two in the morning Dhaka time, I kept replaying the same clip. A few secon...
The Analysis That Returned Empty: Combat Sports' Ledger of Silence and Blockchain's Unfinished PromiseLast week a data pipeline dropped a document on my desk. Eight pages. Every...
Empty Chairs and Unfinished Ledgers: Eight Layers of Bangladesh's Combat SportsIn June 2026, on the second day of the national boxing championships, I was...
Eight Boxes, Zero Answers: Where Combat-Sports Analysis Stops, Journalism BeginsEight rows. Eight boxes. And beside every single one, the same sentence typed...
Testimony of an Empty File: Who Keeps the Ledger of Bangladesh's Combat SportsTwenty-seven boxes. Every one returned the same line — insufficient...
From Karama Crowd to Nagoya Poomsae: The Story Behind Darren Yap's BronzeAt the Nagoya hotel ballroom on October 1, 2026, Thursday evening, the...
A Sister's Shadow, A New Mat: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang and the Unwritten Block of Asiad 2026October 1, 2026 — Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. On the first day of the Asiad 2026...