Martial Arts
Imane Khelif Returns in Paris: A Small Stage, A Heavy Question
Referee Dies After Martinete: Safety and Liability Questions Grip Mexican Independent Wrestling
From the KL Deal Sheet to Dhaka's Payout: Reading the Ledger of a Fight Card
Asiad Diary, October 3: One Sepak Takraw First Set and Eight Silent Rows for Jujitsu, Taekwondo and Wrestling
Empty File, Loud Headline: The Room That Stays Blank in Martial Arts Coverage
Imane Khelif Returns in Paris: A Small Stage, A Heavy QuestionA six-round fight at the Maison de la Mutualité in Paris. The announcement ca...
No Sports Report Without Evidence: Why Source Verification Comes FirstDhaka, Bangladesh: The supplied analysis contains no identifiable match,...
The Season of the Blank Column: What Never Gets Written in Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 28, 2026, thirty-two minutes past five in the morning. The western wind...
Referee Dies After Martinete: Safety and Liability Questions Grip Mexican Independent WrestlingHook: One Maneuver, One Death, Several Unanswered Questions A fatal incident ...
Behind Vietnam's First Dakar Medal: How the Silver Was Won, and How the Story Got BuriedMy track-and-arena notebook for early November 2026 was running on two clocks...
From the KL Deal Sheet to Dhaka's Payout: Reading the Ledger of a Fight CardAugust 2026, the combat hall at the Kuala Lumpur SEA Games. Twelve consecutiv...
Eight Empty Columns: The Archive Bangladesh's Combat Sports Never KeptIt is nearly two in the morning. In the rooftop room, a spreadsheet with eigh...
Pereira vs Pavlovich: A 39-Year-Old Body, Seven Knockouts, and One Uncounted QuestionTwo numbers sit side by side on the UFC 335 card, and nobody adds them...
Asiad Diary, October 3: One Sepak Takraw First Set and Eight Silent Rows for Jujitsu, Taekwondo and WrestlingI read the October 3 diary three times. The first pass, my eye stuck on the...
Eight Chapters of Nothing: The Analysis File That Refused to Invent Numbers, and Why Its Empty Columns Are the Most Honest Sports Document of This SeasonA document arrives. Eight chapters. The first is titled 'Competition and...
A Las Vegas Bullet, a Los Angeles Verdict: The Boxing Ledger Nobody PrintedStart with a number that never appeared in a press release: 382,928. Add 50,0...
Empty File, Loud Headline: The Room That Stays Blank in Martial Arts CoverageI didn't watch the fight live. At 3 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment I opened a fil...
The 0-6 Ledger: A Seventeen-Year-Old Vietnamese Karateka's Silver and the Columns Nobody PrintedThe scoreboard read 0-6. The hall lights in Bielsko-Biała were white, the...
Six Points on the Bielsko-Biała Mat: A 17-Year-Old Karateka's Silver and Vietnam's Unspoken QuestionThe gym bag was on the floor beside the mat, and inside the bag was a camera....
No Receipts, No Ring: Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Real Opponent Is DataI didn't watch it live. At 3 a.m. in a Nagoya apartment I was reading an...
Nobody Keeps the Record Outside the Ring: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, Blockchain, and the Story of an Empty DatabaseHook: Forty Chairs, Twelve Thousand Screens One afternoon in 2026, in a Dhaka...
When the Scorecard Is the Only Witness: A Forensic Reading of Incomplete Information in Combat SportsWhen the Scorecard Is the Only Witness: A Forensic Reading of Incomplete...
Fights on the Blockchain Ledger: Combat-Sports Records, Prize Money and the New Arithmetic of Fan TokensFor forty-eight years I have kept the ledger of combat sports. Pen, paper, th...