Martial Arts
Combat Sports in Eight Lenses: How to Read a Fight Story
A Forgotten List and 100 Grams: Who Is Really to Blame in the Asian Games Judo Affair?
Data Void in Blockchain Analysis Pipeline: Technical and Methodological Causes of Stage-2 Analysis Failure
Five Hundredths of a Point: The Number Nobody Reads in Darren Yap's Nagoya Bronze
After the Fifth Round: Raoni Barcelos, UFC's Safety Narrative, and a Veteran's Body
Dana White’s Political Proximity: UFC Publicity or Reputational Risk?At a Washington briefing, Dana White faced reporters and reached for a famili...
From Practising Karate to Eat Better to Double Gold: Chi Thanh Shines at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports CongressChi Thanh's name stood out on Ho Chi Minh City's gold-medal ledger at Vietnam...
The 18.692 Gap: Dakar's Silver and Our Federation's Unpublished LedgerAt about 2 a.m. Dhaka time on November 4, a scoreboard glowed with the number...
Vietnam's First Youth Olympic Medal in Dakar: Three Gaps Hidden Behind the Taiji Fan SilverWhen the scoreboard at the Dakar Youth Olympic taiji fan final flashed 9.346...
Combat Sports in Eight Lenses: How to Read a Fight StoryMartial arts is an umbrella term, and the greatest hazard in covering it is...
Chimaev's Rematch Campaign: A Split Decision, a Weight-Cut Warning, and the Politics of Leverage1. Introduction: Turning a Loss into Leverage The most discussed chapter in...
The Data Vacuum in Combat Sports Coverage: When Guesswork Becomes the Biggest RiskIn sports journalism, the most dangerous sentence is the one written in the...
An Empty Dataset Is Not an Empty Risk: The Silent Failure Inside a Combat-Sports Analytical Framework2:40 a.m., Nagoya. Eight tabs open on the laptop, and the eight tabs are the...
The Scoreboard on the Chain: Blockchain Arrives in Combat Sports, but the Input Line Is Still in the DarkAt one in the morning in a Cheras flat I opened a data file with twelve field...
Karate's 0-6: A Seventeen-Year-Old's Silver, Ranking 36, and the Ledger Nobody KeptThe board read 0-6 with forty seconds left in the final at Bielsko-Biała....
Who Writes the Truth of the Ring? Combat Sports, Disputed Decisions and the Immutable Record of BlockchainThe final moments of the men's +75kg kumite final in karate at the Tokyo...
A Forgotten List and 100 Grams: Who Is Really to Blame in the Asian Games Judo Affair?I didn't watch it live. The story broke in Seoul, and I read it in a small...
Data Void in Blockchain Analysis Pipeline: Technical and Methodological Causes of Stage-2 Analysis FailureA significant technical issue has recently emerged in blockchain-based...
Stage-2 Analysis with Empty Core: Deep Analysis Impossible Due to Lack of InformationA significant methodological limitation has recently surfaced in the...
Empty Chairs, Empty Ledger: Eight Unanswered Questions in Bangladesh's Combat SportsOn a 2026 afternoon at the NSC Gymnasium in Paltan, the national karate...
Two Belts, One Division — RAF's 'Crossover' Test on the Etihad Arena MatOn a November evening I walked into a small preparation hall beside the Etiha...
Five Hundredths of a Point: The Number Nobody Reads in Darren Yap's Nagoya BronzeLast Thursday night, October 1, 2026, a photo of the scoreboard from the Nago...
After the Fifth Round: Raoni Barcelos, UFC's Safety Narrative, and a Veteran's BodyOn September 26, in Las Vegas, the main event of a UFC Fight Night reached th...
Barcelos Leaves Hospital, but the Bill for Five Rounds Is Still UnpaidThe round-five horn sounded, but the arena had gone quiet before it. In Las...
A 39-Year-Old Veteran Leaves on a Stretcher: The Gap Between Barcelos's 'Doing Great' and a CT ScanThe referee waved it off before the fifth-round bell could finish ringing in...