Martial Arts
Martial ArtsDana White’s Political Visibility: Publicity or a New Reputation Risk for the UFC?Dana White’s familiar UFC question, “Who has the first question?”, brought th...
Martial ArtsDana White: UFC CEO on the White House Stage, But Is the Fight About Sport or Politics?Hook: At the White House briefing room, Dana White stands before the...
Martial ArtsThe Press Secretary's Chair Stayed Empty, the UFC Chair Stayed Occupied — Dana White's Political LedgerThe man standing in the White House briefing room had no notes in his hand....
Martial ArtsThat Silver in Dakar: The Repeated 9.346 and the Arithmetic of Vietnam's First MedalOn a Rajshahi rooftop, I count seconds. In June 2026, on that Champions Troph...
Martial ArtsFour Karate Golds, Zero Pathways: An Audit of Bangladesh's Combat SportsIn 2026, at the South Asian Games held in Dhaka, Bangladesh's karate athletes...
Martial ArtsThe Medal Table Nobody Published: The Real Arithmetic of Dhaka's Karate ChampionshipIn December 2026 I sat in the gallery of the NSC gymnasium with a notebook in...
Martial ArtsSilent Failure in Automated Sports News Verification: Stage-1 Returns an Empty ShellA serious failure has surfaced in the automated system used to verify and...
Martial ArtsThe Round-Five WallThe chairs in the school hall in Colombo were set so close together that the...
Martial ArtsFour Bronzes, One Receipt: How Much of Vietnam's Sanda Day Was Actually WonOn the night of September 23, with a Vietnamese-language results sheet open o...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger Beside the Ring: South Asia's Combat Sports Record CrisisAugust 2026. The Nippon Budokan. Karate entered the Olympics for the first an...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of Decimals: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Missing Successor in Vietnamese WushuThree numbers were lit on the scoreboard. 19.546. 19.446. 19.413. Yao Yang of...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Verdict Nobody ReadLast month, around one in the morning, I was sitting on my balcony in...
Martial ArtsTwo Mats in Three Weeks, Two Worlds on One Card: The Wrestling Maths of RAF Abu DhabiOn October 23, at RAF 14, Arman Tsarukyan finished his fight in the first...
Martial ArtsEight Columns, Thirty-One Empty Cells: The Documented Silence of Combat SportsEight Columns, Thirty-One Empty Cells A document landed on my desk last week....
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger: Combat Sports Records, the Blockchain Promise, and a Report That Said NothingThe report arrived in my inbox on a Monday evening. Eight sections, more than...
Martial ArtsEchoes of an Empty Hall: The Ledger, the Lineage and Twenty-Two Days of Waiting in Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 2026. I dragged a cot into the Army boxing team's dormitory block at th...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Hanging on 0.05 Points: Reading the Poomsae Scoreboard Frame by Frame at NagoyaI freeze on the scoreboard. 9.0400 — Singapore's Darren Yap. Directly beneath...
Martial ArtsDown in the Fifth: Barcelos's Hospital Night and the Sport's Uneven Age ArithmeticLas Vegas, that night: the fifth round had not yet ended, but everyone could...
Martial ArtsDana White: UFC CEO on the White House Stage, But Is the Fight About Sport or Politics?Hook: At the White House briefing room, Dana White stands before the...
Martial ArtsThe Press Secretary's Chair Stayed Empty, the UFC Chair Stayed Occupied — Dana White's Political LedgerThe man standing in the White House briefing room had no notes in his hand....
Martial ArtsThat Silver in Dakar: The Repeated 9.346 and the Arithmetic of Vietnam's First MedalOn a Rajshahi rooftop, I count seconds. In June 2026, on that Champions Troph...
Martial ArtsFour Karate Golds, Zero Pathways: An Audit of Bangladesh's Combat SportsIn 2026, at the South Asian Games held in Dhaka, Bangladesh's karate athletes...
Martial ArtsThe Medal Table Nobody Published: The Real Arithmetic of Dhaka's Karate ChampionshipIn December 2026 I sat in the gallery of the NSC gymnasium with a notebook in...
Martial ArtsSilent Failure in Automated Sports News Verification: Stage-1 Returns an Empty ShellA serious failure has surfaced in the automated system used to verify and...
Martial ArtsThe Round-Five WallThe chairs in the school hall in Colombo were set so close together that the...
Martial ArtsFour Bronzes, One Receipt: How Much of Vietnam's Sanda Day Was Actually WonOn the night of September 23, with a Vietnamese-language results sheet open o...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger Beside the Ring: South Asia's Combat Sports Record CrisisAugust 2026. The Nippon Budokan. Karate entered the Olympics for the first an...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of Decimals: Duong Thuy Vi's Bronze and the Missing Successor in Vietnamese WushuThree numbers were lit on the scoreboard. 19.546. 19.446. 19.413. Yao Yang of...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, a Disputed Move, and the Verdict Nobody ReadLast month, around one in the morning, I was sitting on my balcony in...
Martial ArtsTwo Mats in Three Weeks, Two Worlds on One Card: The Wrestling Maths of RAF Abu DhabiOn October 23, at RAF 14, Arman Tsarukyan finished his fight in the first...
Martial ArtsEight Columns, Thirty-One Empty Cells: The Documented Silence of Combat SportsEight Columns, Thirty-One Empty Cells A document landed on my desk last week....
Martial ArtsThe Empty Ledger: Combat Sports Records, the Blockchain Promise, and a Report That Said NothingThe report arrived in my inbox on a Monday evening. Eight sections, more than...
Martial ArtsEchoes of an Empty Hall: The Ledger, the Lineage and Twenty-Two Days of Waiting in Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 2026. I dragged a cot into the Army boxing team's dormitory block at th...
Martial ArtsA Bronze Hanging on 0.05 Points: Reading the Poomsae Scoreboard Frame by Frame at NagoyaI freeze on the scoreboard. 9.0400 — Singapore's Darren Yap. Directly beneath...
Martial ArtsDown in the Fifth: Barcelos's Hospital Night and the Sport's Uneven Age ArithmeticLas Vegas, that night: the fifth round had not yet ended, but everyone could...
