Martial Arts
The File Without a Coach's Name Cannot Hold a Medal
Empty Frames, Blank Ledgers: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Lost Its Own Data
Abu Dhabi, Two Belts and an Unevenly Built Card: The Market Ledger of Real American Freestyle
UFC Veteran Barcelos: 'I'm Doing Great' But the Real Verdict Lies in the CT Scan
Imane Khelif Set for Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence, Beginning a New Professional Chapter in ParisAfter a two-year absence from official competition, Olympic gold medallist...
Two Columns of Medals: The Ledger Nobody Keeps in Bangladesh's Martial ArtsJune 2026. The national boxing championship is running inside the NSC gymnasi...
From the Ring to the Report: The Eight Layers of Combat-Sports Journalism and the Hard Arithmetic of VerificationCombat-sports journalism looks simple and is not. A fight result fits in one...
Buakaw at 44 Wins on Points: Distance, Kickboxing Rules and a Repeat BookingThe poster carries the date "3/10/2026". The same report says the two men fir...
The File Without a Coach's Name Cannot Hold a MedalNovember 2026, an indoor venue in Dhaka. The country's first professional...
From the Mud Pit to the Olympic Mat: The Clock Pakistan's Wrestling Is RacingLast year the Pakistan Sports Board's budget line carried 3 million rupees...
Empty Frames, Blank Ledgers: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Lost Its Own DataIn May 2026, Bangladesh's first full professional boxing card ended inside a...
Abu Dhabi, Two Belts and an Unevenly Built Card: The Market Ledger of Real American FreestyleOn November 14, under the roof of Abu Dhabi's Etihad Arena, two cruiserweight...
The Ledger Outside the Ring: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Survive on Unseen AccountsMarch 2026, the last evening of the national karate championship at the NSC...
Gold on a Phone Line, a Crowd in an Empty Arena: The Uncounted Rounds of Bangladesh's Combat SportsDecember 2026. The indoor hall of the Khulna District Stadium. Forty-seven...
The Ledger and the Empty Chair: Mapping Absence in Bangladesh's Combat SportsNovember 2026. Inside the NSC Gymnasium in Paltan the tatami was still damp; ...
UFC Veteran Barcelos: 'I'm Doing Great' But the Real Verdict Lies in the CT ScanOn Monday night, I opened the UFC's official statement on my screen in Dhaka....
From 5-0 to Gold: What Vietnam's Team Kata at ASIAD 2026 Tells BangladeshHook: The Scoreline That Was Itself a Statement Five-zero on the board. In te...
Eight Columns, Zero Facts: The Document That Told the Truth About Bangladeshi Boxing at 3 a.m. in NagoyaIt is three in the morning in Nagoya. I opened a file on my desktop titled...
Sanda 56kg Final: Vietnam's Arithmetic Against China's MonopolyA small pocket of Vietnamese flags sits at the right corner of the leitai....
UFC 331: 13-of-14 KOs, 23-3, and One Back — The Number Nobody Is Counting in Tsarukyan vs. RuffyIn November 2026, a boxing event was staged at the NSC gymnasium in Dhaka — t...
A 5-0 That Was a Panel Vote, Not a Fight Score: Auditing Vietnam's Karate GoldHook: A 5-0 That Was a Vote, Not a Beatdown The headline said Vietnam's team...
Kata Gold, Table Illusion: The Real Picture of Vietnam's Karate LeapSeptember 22, 2026. The clock on the wall in Nagoya's karate venue read 14:20...
When Blockchain Becomes the Ring's Witness: Combat Sports' Data Crisis and the New Arithmetic of Immutable RecordsAugust 2026, the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo. In the final seconds of the men's +75...
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Three Bronzes and One Guaranteed Silver in a Single Day — and the Hidden Hand of the FormatVietnam's wushu delegation ended September 23 with a headline that read like ...