Martial Arts
Martial ArtsThe Death at the Weigh-In and Professional Fighting's Biggest Data Gap2026-10-22On the night of 10 December 2026, in Manila, a 21-year-old fighter named Yang...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Format and the Protocol Gaps2026-10-20At 6 a.m. on October 22, 2026, the opening ceremony of the Muay Thai programm...
Martial ArtsFarid Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: When an Unbeaten Streak Stops Being Currency2026-10-17Farid Basharat beat John Garza by unanimous decision. It was his seventh...
Martial ArtsBrendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event, Calls Out Middleweight Elite2026-10-12Round five, fourth minute. Christian Leroy Duncan rolled his hips, trying to...
Martial ArtsAllen submits Duncan in the UFC main event fifth round: when the scorecard and the tape tell two different stories2026-10-11The Meta Apex arena sits in an industrial pocket of Las Vegas, with no...
Martial ArtsVirtual Taekwondo: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang’s Medal Gamble at the 2026 Asian Games2026-10-10At 8:00 AM on October 2, 2026, at Aichi-Nagoya, Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang will put...
Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335: Six Months After the Knockout, the Medical File Stays SealedOn the night of December 12, at T-Mobile Arena, Alex Pereira will stand acros...
The Death of Bulgaria's Taekwondo Federation President: One Man, Four Roles, Three Empty ChairsThat morning in Sofia, the organisers of an international taekwondo tournamen...
BoxRec issues no belts. HBF still calls it the international standard.The working agenda between the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Federation and BoxRec...
Khamzat Chimaev, the Weight Cut He Cannot Remember, and the Truth Beneath the 48-47 ScorecardsIn the dressing room after UFC 328, nobody asked Khamzat Chimaev about the...
Forms and Fighting Cannot Share One Protocol: The Sports-Medicine Gap in Vietnam's Martial Arts ManagementOn a Tuesday morning, the physiotherapy room at the national sports training...
The Death at the Weigh-In and Professional Fighting's Biggest Data GapOn the night of 10 December 2026, in Manila, a 21-year-old fighter named Yang...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Format and the Protocol GapsAt 6 a.m. on October 22, 2026, the opening ceremony of the Muay Thai programm...
Nguyen Thi Tam defeats world champion, reaches Asiad 2026 boxing finalAt Nishio Arena in Japan, the third round of the women's 50-51 kg semifinal a...
Farid Basharat Leaves the UFC at 16-0: When an Unbeaten Streak Stops Being CurrencyFarid Basharat beat John Garza by unanimous decision. It was his seventh...
Farid Basharat leaves the UFC at 16-0: when a perfect scorecard cannot buy a roster spotThree scorecards, three judges, one name. On a July 2026 fight night, Farid...
When Data Stops Being a Weapon: Lessons From a Failed AnalysisOn August 13, 2026, I sat in front of my screen with a document sent from a...
Vietnamese Combat Sports: The Empty Injury File and the Price of SilenceI was standing in the third row of an arena in Da Nang, on the finals night o...
Brendan Allen Submits Christian Leroy Duncan in UFC Main Event, Calls Out Middleweight EliteRound five, fourth minute. Christian Leroy Duncan rolled his hips, trying to...
Allen submits Duncan in the UFC main event fifth round: when the scorecard and the tape tell two different storiesThe Meta Apex arena sits in an industrial pocket of Las Vegas, with no...
The Martinete in Hidalgo: Referee El Búho's Death and Lucha Libre's Safety VacuumA clip barely thirty seconds long is spreading across Mexican social media. I...
Asiad 20, September 20: Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata Bronze and Vietnam's Unreported Combat ResultsI reopened my notebook and stopped at the line for September 20. Not because ...
Vietnam's Poomsae Gold at Chuncheon 2026: Reading the Medal Through the RulesIn Chuncheon, on the poomsae floor there was no opponent to knock down. No...
Asiad 20: Vietnam's First Teqball Bronze and Bui Ngoc Nhi's Karate Kata ComebackOn the morning of September 20, at the Teqball court of Asiad 20, the...
Virtual Taekwondo: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang’s Medal Gamble at the 2026 Asian GamesAt 8:00 AM on October 2, 2026, at Aichi-Nagoya, Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang will put...
When Martial Arts Data Disappears: A Systemic Lesson from an Empty AnalysisOn a Tuesday afternoon in Chiang Mai, I received a sports analysis document....
RAF Abu Dhabi: UFC's Crossover Gamble and the Ruleset Gap Nobody Dares to NameOn the night of November 14, at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, Arman Tsarukyan...
The Missing Injury Data Map in Vietnamese Martial ArtsWhen I sat down to build an injury map for Vietnamese martial artists competi...
Breath Before the Bell: The Art of Reading Fighters Through Their Smallest HabitsBefore the opening bell rings, there is a silence that few spectators notice....
Martial Arts Between Two Streams: The Professional Ring and Traditional HeritageIn a small martial arts gym tucked deep inside an alley, after training ends,...
Da Nang's martial arts gyms in the MMA era: tradition survives on trustAt 5:30 in the morning, the training floor of a small martial arts gym by the...
El Búho, the Unscripted Fall, and the Regulatory Void of Independent Lucha LibreThe whistle stayed on the mat. In Mineral de la Reforma, in the state of...
Dana White's personal assistant and the UFC contract after a 1:57 KO: conflict of interest, money flow and the data voidShenzhen, a midweek evening. I re-open a 117-second clip. Sal Everett — red...
