Martial Arts
Bulgaria's Taekwondo Federation President Shot Dead: One Empty Chair, Four Titles, Three Successions
An Empty Dossier on the Desk: When Combat Sports Analysis Has to Begin With 'Not Enough Data'
When the Input Data Is Empty: Lessons from a Failed Sports Analysis Pipeline
The Death of a Filipino-American Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor Judgment
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 13 Weight Classes, a Public-Service Gymnasium, and the Blanks Left Unfilled
Muay Thai opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 13 weight classes and the gaps nobody has filled
A Referee Died on the Canvas, 585,000 Pesos Closed the File, and the Man Responsible Was Back in the Ring 14 Days LaterOn the night of 6 October, at an arena in Hidalgo, Mexico, a man in an ordina...
Bulgaria's Taekwondo Federation President Shot Dead: One Empty Chair, Four Titles, Three SuccessionsThe opening ceremony was cancelled. No music, no parade, no demonstration of...
Three Incompatible Rule Sets: Why Every Cross-Discipline Fighter Comparison FailsOn 26 August 2026, in Singapore, Jung Chan-sung took off his gloves and place...
Three Scoring Systems Under One Label: The Blind Spot in Vietnam's Combat Sports CoverageThe fight-night media kit handed out in the press room had everything except...
A Brawl to Sell a Ticket: Why Tsarukyan Is Risking a UFC Title Shot in a Freestyle Wrestling MatchIn the instant before security rushed in, all I caught was Arman Tsarukyan's...
Khamzat Chimaev Pushes for a Sean Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Cards and a Weight Cut He Cannot RememberThree scorecards, one margin, three different readings. 48-47. 48-47. 48-47....
In the Combat Sports Transfer Window, Weigh-In Records Say More Than Fight RecordsIn the forty-page dossier that a fighter's manager usually sends before a...
An Empty Dossier on the Desk: When Combat Sports Analysis Has to Begin With 'Not Enough Data'At 07:40 in the morning, the ninth-floor window looked down on a Chengdu stre...
When the Input Data Is Empty: Lessons from a Failed Sports Analysis PipelineIn the profession of a training ground observer, I have learned one thing ove...
When Statistics Stop Being Evidence: Verification Standards in Professional Combat Sports AnalysisOn Tuesday night, after a press conference in Shanghai, I opened an analysis...
The Death of a Filipino-American Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentA robbery in Las Vegas, a single bullet, and a name the press called a...
One Label, Three Scoring Systems: Where Vietnam's Martial Arts Coverage Loses the Beat6:10 a.m., Khanh Hoa Provincial Sports Arena. Outside it was still half dark;...
Vietnamese Martial Arts Are Being Analysed With the Wrong FrameworkOn the night of the vovinam finals at the 31st SEA Games, a Vietnamese athlet...
First Teqball bronze at Asiad 20: When a new sport forces officials to relearn how to seeOn the morning of September 20, 2026, on the curved Teqball table inside the...
Asiad 20, September 20: Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata Bronze and the Narrow Door Called RepechageThe karate hall in Aichi-Nagoya was so quiet I could hear the breathing of th...
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 13 Weight Classes, a Public-Service Gymnasium, and the Blanks Left UnfilledI opened the competition schedule of the 2026 National Sports Festival again...
Bulgaria's Taekwondo Federation President Shot Dead: One Empty Chair, Four Titles, Three SuccessionsThe opening ceremony was cancelled. No music, no parade, no demonstration of...
Three Incompatible Rule Sets: Why Every Cross-Discipline Fighter Comparison FailsOn 26 August 2026, in Singapore, Jung Chan-sung took off his gloves and place...
Three Scoring Systems Under One Label: The Blind Spot in Vietnam's Combat Sports CoverageThe fight-night media kit handed out in the press room had everything except...
A Brawl to Sell a Ticket: Why Tsarukyan Is Risking a UFC Title Shot in a Freestyle Wrestling MatchIn the instant before security rushed in, all I caught was Arman Tsarukyan's...
Khamzat Chimaev Pushes for a Sean Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Cards and a Weight Cut He Cannot RememberThree scorecards, one margin, three different readings. 48-47. 48-47. 48-47....
In the Combat Sports Transfer Window, Weigh-In Records Say More Than Fight RecordsIn the forty-page dossier that a fighter's manager usually sends before a...
An Empty Dossier on the Desk: When Combat Sports Analysis Has to Begin With 'Not Enough Data'At 07:40 in the morning, the ninth-floor window looked down on a Chengdu stre...
When the Input Data Is Empty: Lessons from a Failed Sports Analysis PipelineIn the profession of a training ground observer, I have learned one thing ove...
When Statistics Stop Being Evidence: Verification Standards in Professional Combat Sports AnalysisOn Tuesday night, after a press conference in Shanghai, I opened an analysis...
The Death of a Filipino-American Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentA robbery in Las Vegas, a single bullet, and a name the press called a...
One Label, Three Scoring Systems: Where Vietnam's Martial Arts Coverage Loses the Beat6:10 a.m., Khanh Hoa Provincial Sports Arena. Outside it was still half dark;...
Vietnamese Martial Arts Are Being Analysed With the Wrong FrameworkOn the night of the vovinam finals at the 31st SEA Games, a Vietnamese athlet...
First Teqball bronze at Asiad 20: When a new sport forces officials to relearn how to seeOn the morning of September 20, 2026, on the curved Teqball table inside the...
Asiad 20, September 20: Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata Bronze and the Narrow Door Called RepechageThe karate hall in Aichi-Nagoya was so quiet I could hear the breathing of th...
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 13 Weight Classes, a Public-Service Gymnasium, and the Blanks Left UnfilledI opened the competition schedule of the 2026 National Sports Festival again...