Martial Arts
Merab-Usman Hotel Brawl in Abu Dhabi: Old Rivalry, New Controversy and the Future of RAF
A French Licence, an Open Question: Imane Khelif's Return and the Ledger of an Unresolved Dispute
Silver Worth More Than Gold: Vietnam's First Dakar Medal and an Incomplete Score Sheet
Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold: Karate Kata History and a Leap into Southeast Asia's Top Three
Accounting Beyond the Ring: The Eight Dimensions of Professional Martial Arts Analysis
Merab-Usman Hotel Brawl in Abu Dhabi: Old Rivalry, New Controversy and the Future of RAFA few seconds of violence in a hotel lobby in Abu Dhabi have once again raise...
From Practising Karate to Eat Better to Winning Double Gold: Nguyen Chi Thanh's Rise at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports CongressThe final day of karate at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Congress produced a...
Zero Takedowns, Nine Minutes of Control: Tatiana Suarez's Win and an Unfinished Title ClaimLet me start with three numbers: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28. Those three judges' car...
A French Licence, an Open Question: Imane Khelif's Return and the Ledger of an Unresolved DisputeThe ring at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris is small in scale. Six rounds, tw...
The Bronze That Began 0–5The scoreboard read 0–5. Nobody outside Vietnam had Bui Ngoc Nhi's name in...
Silver Worth More Than Gold: Vietnam's First Dakar Medal and an Incomplete Score SheetAt dawn on November 4, Vietnam time, the scoreboard for the Dakar taijiquan...
No Paper, No Knockout: The Verification Crisis in Combat SportsMarch 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. Ten weight classes at the Bangladesh...
Source Material Missing: Sports Report Cannot Be GeneratedThe input provided contains no news article. It is a process-level response...
Four Karate Golds, Zero Pathways: The Ledger No One Reconciles in Bangladesh's Combat SportsA rooftop in Rajshahi, and one number In June 2026, Bangladesh made 264 in th...
Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold: Karate Kata History and a Leap into Southeast Asia's Top ThreeAt the karate mat of the 2026 Asian Games in Japan, Vietnam won its first gol...
Accounting Beyond the Ring: The Eight Dimensions of Professional Martial Arts AnalysisThe easiest way to report on professional combat sports is to announce the...
Painted Armour, Blunt Blade: The Ledger Nobody Opens in the ‘Makeup General’ DebateIn January 2026 a still image spread across the internet: a general standing ...
Eight Columns, All N/A: How Empty Is Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Ledger?It is three in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen there is a table...
The Empty Deal Sheet: What Dhaka's Missing Data Says About Combat SportsNovember 2026, Dhaka. The country's first professional boxing card — no belt,...
The Ledger of Empty Columns: Where Martial Arts Coverage StopsA file arrived from the desk last week. In the headline field, one word: none...
The Empty File, the Full Gymnasium: South Asian Combat Sports' Unwritten RecordFive in the morning at the Osaka desk. Shutter up, tea down, the file opens o...
Takajo Tomofumi: From Three Tokyo Grand Slam Titles to an ATM Booth — Where Judo's Safety Net ToreOn September 28, an ATM booth inside a bank branch in Kumamoto. A woman in he...
The Fight Record That Was Never Written Down — Blockchain Cannot Save ItI opened an analysis file on my laptop in Incheon that was supposed to contai...
The Future Missing from Federation Files: Bangladesh's Martial-Arts Margin MapI did not watch the fight live. On a night in November 2026 I watched a...
Data Vacuity Crisis in Blockchain Analysis Pipelines: Causes and Remedies for Stage-2 Analysis FailureA recent incident in blockchain-based data analysis systems has proven that...
Martinete or Contralona: The Ledger Mexico's Ring Death Has Not Balanced11 de Julio Sports and Cultural Center, Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo. A...
Martinete or Contralona — The Death of a 75-Year-Old Referee in an Unpermitted Mexican RingMartinete or Contralona — The Death of a 75-Year-Old Referee in an Unpermitte...
Three Punches, One Life, One Empty Ledger: The Accounting of a Trained Hand Outside the RingThere is a column in my notebook where I keep purses, cornermen and hand-wrap...
The Ledger of Empty Rows: When Combat Sports' Silence Becomes the StoryFor thirty-seven years I have kept a ledger. Row upon row of dates, bouts,...
Death by Martinete: In Lucha Libre's Unruled Ring, Who Owns the Fall?I didn't see it live. I pieced it together in a small Nagoya apartment at 3...
From Practising Karate to Eat Better to Winning Double Gold: Nguyen Chi Thanh's Rise at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports CongressThe final day of karate at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Congress produced a...
Zero Takedowns, Nine Minutes of Control: Tatiana Suarez's Win and an Unfinished Title ClaimLet me start with three numbers: 30-27, 30-27, 29-28. Those three judges' car...
A French Licence, an Open Question: Imane Khelif's Return and the Ledger of an Unresolved DisputeThe ring at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris is small in scale. Six rounds, tw...
The Bronze That Began 0–5The scoreboard read 0–5. Nobody outside Vietnam had Bui Ngoc Nhi's name in...
Silver Worth More Than Gold: Vietnam's First Dakar Medal and an Incomplete Score SheetAt dawn on November 4, Vietnam time, the scoreboard for the Dakar taijiquan...
No Paper, No Knockout: The Verification Crisis in Combat SportsMarch 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. Ten weight classes at the Bangladesh...
Source Material Missing: Sports Report Cannot Be GeneratedThe input provided contains no news article. It is a process-level response...
Four Karate Golds, Zero Pathways: The Ledger No One Reconciles in Bangladesh's Combat SportsA rooftop in Rajshahi, and one number In June 2026, Bangladesh made 264 in th...
Vietnam's First ASIAD Gold: Karate Kata History and a Leap into Southeast Asia's Top ThreeAt the karate mat of the 2026 Asian Games in Japan, Vietnam won its first gol...
Accounting Beyond the Ring: The Eight Dimensions of Professional Martial Arts AnalysisThe easiest way to report on professional combat sports is to announce the...
Painted Armour, Blunt Blade: The Ledger Nobody Opens in the ‘Makeup General’ DebateIn January 2026 a still image spread across the internet: a general standing ...
Eight Columns, All N/A: How Empty Is Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Ledger?It is three in the morning in Nagoya. On the laptop screen there is a table...
The Empty Deal Sheet: What Dhaka's Missing Data Says About Combat SportsNovember 2026, Dhaka. The country's first professional boxing card — no belt,...
The Ledger of Empty Columns: Where Martial Arts Coverage StopsA file arrived from the desk last week. In the headline field, one word: none...
The Empty File, the Full Gymnasium: South Asian Combat Sports' Unwritten RecordFive in the morning at the Osaka desk. Shutter up, tea down, the file opens o...
Takajo Tomofumi: From Three Tokyo Grand Slam Titles to an ATM Booth — Where Judo's Safety Net ToreOn September 28, an ATM booth inside a bank branch in Kumamoto. A woman in he...
The Fight Record That Was Never Written Down — Blockchain Cannot Save ItI opened an analysis file on my laptop in Incheon that was supposed to contai...
The Future Missing from Federation Files: Bangladesh's Martial-Arts Margin MapI did not watch the fight live. On a night in November 2026 I watched a...
Data Vacuity Crisis in Blockchain Analysis Pipelines: Causes and Remedies for Stage-2 Analysis FailureA recent incident in blockchain-based data analysis systems has proven that...
Martinete or Contralona: The Ledger Mexico's Ring Death Has Not Balanced11 de Julio Sports and Cultural Center, Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo. A...
Martinete or Contralona — The Death of a 75-Year-Old Referee in an Unpermitted Mexican RingMartinete or Contralona — The Death of a 75-Year-Old Referee in an Unpermitte...
Three Punches, One Life, One Empty Ledger: The Accounting of a Trained Hand Outside the RingThere is a column in my notebook where I keep purses, cornermen and hand-wrap...
The Ledger of Empty Rows: When Combat Sports' Silence Becomes the StoryFor thirty-seven years I have kept a ledger. Row upon row of dates, bouts,...
Death by Martinete: In Lucha Libre's Unruled Ring, Who Owns the Fall?I didn't see it live. I pieced it together in a small Nagoya apartment at 3...