Martial Arts
Sanda 56kg Final: Vietnam's Arithmetic Against China's Monopoly
Kata Gold, Table Illusion: The Real Picture of Vietnam's Karate Leap
The Semifinal Ceiling: Vietnam's Three Bronzes and One Guaranteed Silver in a Single Day — and the Hidden Hand of the Format
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers Behind Singapore's Épée Bronze
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 ...
One Bronze, Ten Touches Apart: Singapore's First Women's Épée Team Medal and the Ledger Behind It42–41. The number reached me in two lines of a message: from the event hall a...
42–41 and 35–45: The Two Numbers Behind Singapore's Épée Bronze42–41. A team épée relay stops at 45 touches. Four names in the squad, three ...
The Receipt From the Semi-Final: Singapore's Épée Bronze and the Ten-Touch Gap on the Nagoya PisteI have never stood inside the fencing hall at Aichi Sky Expo. I know the road...
42–41: How One Overtime Touch Put Singapore's Épée Team at History's DoorThe chairs were already stacked at the Aichi Sky Expo when the last hour of t...
42–41 and 35–45: Two Columns in Singapore's Épée Bronze42–41 and 35–45: Two Columns in Singapore's Épée Bronze Inside Hall Two of...