Martial Arts
The 1.86-Metre Ledger: The Weight-Class Decision Buried Under the Rice Story
Dakar 2026: Three Unasked Questions Behind Vietnam's First Medal
The Empty Report, the Zeroed Fields: In Bangladeshi Combat Sports, Results Arrive by Phone Call, Not by Record
Gold by Phone, Blank Ledger: The Count Nobody Keeps in Bangladesh's Combat Sports
A 1.86m Frame in an 80kg Room: The Kumite Geometry Vietnam Just RewroteThe first number that stops me in the men's kumite under-80kg results from th...
The 1.86-Metre Ledger: The Weight-Class Decision Buried Under the Rice StoryThe report that travelled furthest after the karate events of the 2026 Nation...
Six Rounds, a Small Card: The Big Question Sits Outside the RingOn December 15, the card at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris will be headlined...
Dakar 2026: Three Unasked Questions Behind Vietnam's First MedalAround six in the morning I opened the score sheet from Incheon. 9.346 + 9.34...
The Empty Report, the Zeroed Fields: In Bangladeshi Combat Sports, Results Arrive by Phone Call, Not by RecordLast year a draft analytical report reached my desk. The title field was blan...
Combat Sports' Real Deficit Is Not Medals — It Is the LedgerThe National Karate Championship, 2026. Fourteen plastic chairs were set out ...
A T-Shirt, a Ledger and a Belt: What Is Really Being Sold in Tsarukyan vs. DanisThree in the morning in Chattogram, balcony light off, laptop open. I watched...
Gold by Phone, Blank Ledger: The Count Nobody Keeps in Bangladesh's Combat SportsThe karate coach's voice message arrived at four in the morning, minutes befo...
Rivera's Fourth-Round Bare-Knuckle Knockout: A Big Win Against a Small RecordThe fourth round was 46 seconds old when the tall man went down to the mat fo...
An Empty Cell Never Lies: Eight Chapters on Combat Sports' Accounting CrisisEight chapters. Each one carries a table, and every cell in every table says...
The Ring Without a Record: When a Fight Leaves No Name BehindOn an evening in 2026, a weigh-in was held in a hotel ballroom in Dhaka. Only...
The Void as Evidence: Why All Eight Yardsticks Stay Empty in Bangladesh's Martial-Arts AnalysisKhulna District Stadium indoor hall, 2026. Forty-seven bouts across three day...
The Scoreboard Doesn't Lie — But Who Keeps the Ledger?I was there when the 145th gold made Facebook feel like a stadium. August 202...
No Receipt, No Take: Why Combat Sports Needs an Immutable LedgerLate last week, around one in the morning, I opened a file in my Cheras flat....
Blockchain News: Stage-2 Analysis Information Void and the Crisis of AI Prediction SystemsRecently, an incident on an international sports analysis platform sparked...
The Medal Table Nobody Published: Bangladesh's Decade of Martial-Arts SilenceThe Medal Table Nobody Published In December 2026 I sat in the gallery of the...
Short Hair, Long Count: What Vietnam's Team Kata Told Us Between Two Asian Games GoldsOn the night of September 22, past two in the morning in Osaka, I watched thr...
77 kg, a Sauna and an Unconscious Fighter: The Incident I Could Not See Even While Standing on Asian Games SoilOne I did not see it live. That has to come first, because it is how I work: ...
A 5-0 Is Not a Shutout: Karate's Panel Votes, Repechage and the Gap in Medal EconomyIt is half past midnight on a Rajshahi rooftop. On the laptop screen: a hall ...
Five Flags on a Nagoya Mat: Vietnam's First Gold, and the Empty Cell in My FileAichi-Nagoya, 22 September 2026, half past four in the afternoon. I propped m...