Martial Arts
Martial ArtsWhy Barcelos Left on a Stretcher While Ahead on Three Cards — Slams, Suspensions and the UFC Ledger2026-09-28The clinch against the fence, then the lift. In that fifth-round moment, Raon...
Martial ArtsThe 5-0 Scoreboard That Was Never a Fight: Vietnam's Karate and the Geometry of a Panel Vote2026-09-25The scoreboard after the team kata final showed 5-0. Five judges, five separa...
Martial ArtsAsian Games 20: Five Judges, Three 5-0 Sweeps, and the Seven Empty Rows on the Scoresheet2026-09-24I spent the first ten minutes of the women's team kata final at Aichi-Nagoya...
Martial ArtsMud Instead of Mat: Pakistan's Funding Wall on the Road to Olympic Wrestling2026-10-12In a mud akhara somewhere in Punjab, evening settles into something close to...
Martial ArtsWrestling's Olympic Door and a Zero Budget: Pakistan's Unequal Fight from the Mud to the Mat2026-10-12The wrestling story came out of Lahore, and I read it in a small flat in Nago...
Mud Instead of Mat: Pakistan's Funding Wall on the Road to Olympic WrestlingIn a mud akhara somewhere in Punjab, evening settles into something close to...
Wrestling's Olympic Door and a Zero Budget: Pakistan's Unequal Fight from the Mud to the MatThe wrestling story came out of Lahore, and I read it in a small flat in Nago...
The Lesson of Zero Data: Combat Sports, Verifiable Records and the Story of an Empty AnalysisMarch 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation...
The Ledger Beneath the Mat: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, Broken Records, and Blockchain's Hollow PromiseMarch 2026. The national karate championship had been running for four days a...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: Name Value, an Age Ledger, and One Empty Chair on the CardThere is no main event on the UFC 335 card yet. There is, however, a five-rou...
Why Barcelos Left on a Stretcher While Ahead on Three Cards — Slams, Suspensions and the UFC LedgerThe clinch against the fence, then the lift. In that fifth-round moment, Raon...
The 5-0 Scoreboard That Was Never a Fight: Vietnam's Karate and the Geometry of a Panel VoteThe scoreboard after the team kata final showed 5-0. Five judges, five separa...
0.133 Points Beneath the Evergreen: Duong Thuy Vi, Taolu Scoring and a Farewell on HoldThe Asian Games came to my city, Nagoya. I still watched the taolu final on a...
Where the 5-0 Ends and the Question Begins: Vietnam's Team Kata and the Blank Column in the LedgerOne column on my final sheet is still blank: the name of the kata. The score ...
UFC 331 Co-Main: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Punch, and the Five-Round MiscalculationHook On Friday night, in the ground-floor corridor of Crypto.com Arena in Los...
Asian Games 20: Five Judges, Three 5-0 Sweeps, and the Seven Empty Rows on the ScoresheetI spent the first ten minutes of the women's team kata final at Aichi-Nagoya...
Where Does the 5-0 Live? Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold and the Gap in the Kata Score SheetSeptember 22, 2026. Nearly two in the morning in Dhaka. On the Aichi-Nagoya...
Wrestling's Olympic Door and a Zero Budget: Pakistan's Unequal Fight from the Mud to the MatThe wrestling story came out of Lahore, and I read it in a small flat in Nago...
The Lesson of Zero Data: Combat Sports, Verifiable Records and the Story of an Empty AnalysisMarch 2026. The NSC gymnasium in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Boxing Federation...
The Ledger Beneath the Mat: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, Broken Records, and Blockchain's Hollow PromiseMarch 2026. The national karate championship had been running for four days a...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: Name Value, an Age Ledger, and One Empty Chair on the CardThere is no main event on the UFC 335 card yet. There is, however, a five-rou...
Why Barcelos Left on a Stretcher While Ahead on Three Cards — Slams, Suspensions and the UFC LedgerThe clinch against the fence, then the lift. In that fifth-round moment, Raon...
The 5-0 Scoreboard That Was Never a Fight: Vietnam's Karate and the Geometry of a Panel VoteThe scoreboard after the team kata final showed 5-0. Five judges, five separa...
0.133 Points Beneath the Evergreen: Duong Thuy Vi, Taolu Scoring and a Farewell on HoldThe Asian Games came to my city, Nagoya. I still watched the taolu final on a...
Where the 5-0 Ends and the Question Begins: Vietnam's Team Kata and the Blank Column in the LedgerOne column on my final sheet is still blank: the name of the kata. The score ...
UFC 331 Co-Main: Tsarukyan's Back, Ruffy's Punch, and the Five-Round MiscalculationHook On Friday night, in the ground-floor corridor of Crypto.com Arena in Los...
Asian Games 20: Five Judges, Three 5-0 Sweeps, and the Seven Empty Rows on the ScoresheetI spent the first ten minutes of the women's team kata final at Aichi-Nagoya...
Where Does the 5-0 Live? Vietnam's First Asian Games Gold and the Gap in the Kata Score SheetSeptember 22, 2026. Nearly two in the morning in Dhaka. On the Aichi-Nagoya...