Martial Arts
Controversial Olympic Champion Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years
Combat-Sports Analysis on an Empty Data Set: Why Conclusions Without Verification Are Dangerous
Breaking a Three-Games Barrier: Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée Bronze
A Referee Died in a Mexican Lucha Libre Ring: The Martinete Question Belongs to an Industry Without a Rulebook
Unverifiable, Therefore Lost: Combat Sports' Record Crisis and the Ledger Lesson
The Cream-Foundation General: What the Record Says, What the Screen Hides
Martial ArtsControversial Olympic Champion Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two YearsImane Khelif, the Olympic champion at the centre of a global gender-eligibili...
Martial ArtsKhelif's Return: The Question a Six-Round Card Cannot AnswerMaison de la Mutualité in Paris is a small hall — walled in, old, nothing lik...
Martial ArtsUFC 331's Real Takeaway: Not a Golden Era, but a Pipeline LedgerAt four in the morning in Incheon I replayed it. I did not check the clock, b...
Martial ArtsFrom the Khulna Ring to a Kathmandu Phone Call: Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Quiet DefeatOn a December afternoon in 2026, inside the indoor hall of the Khulna Distric...
Martial ArtsCombat-Sports Analysis on an Empty Data Set: Why Conclusions Without Verification Are DangerousProfessional combat-sports coverage no longer stays confined to what happens...
Martial ArtsBreaking a Three-Games Barrier: Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée BronzeSingapore has written history at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games fencing...
Martial ArtsThree-Time Grand Slam Champion, No Fixed Address: The Hole in Judo's Safety NetSeptember 2026, Al Quoz, Dubai. A quarter to one in the morning. A boxing gym...
Martial ArtsThe Record Written in Pencil: Bangladesh's Combat Sports and Its Missing LedgerMay 2026, Dhaka. The weigh-in for "The Ultimate Glory" had finished an hour...
Martial ArtsThe 100-Gram Gallows: How a Protective Rule Became the Trap in Korean JudoI was not standing on the Asian Games judo mat. I pieced this story together...
Martial ArtsPakistan Wrestling: A Rs30 Million Bill, Zero Allocation, and an Olympic Dream Stuck in the MudRs30 million. Three wrestlers. And an official allocation of zero. Last year...
Martial ArtsA Referee Died in a Mexican Lucha Libre Ring: The Martinete Question Belongs to an Industry Without a RulebookHook The person lying on the canvas was the referee, not a wrestler. His name...
Martial ArtsUnverifiable, Therefore Lost: Combat Sports' Record Crisis and the Ledger LessonOn a February morning at half past five, the wet floor of the NSC gymnasium i...
Martial ArtsThe Cream-Foundation General: What the Record Says, What the Screen HidesIn January 2026, a single battle scene from the drama “Zhu Yu,” starring Zhan...
Martial ArtsKhelif's Return: The Question a Six-Round Card Cannot AnswerMaison de la Mutualité in Paris is a small hall — walled in, old, nothing lik...
Martial ArtsUFC 331's Real Takeaway: Not a Golden Era, but a Pipeline LedgerAt four in the morning in Incheon I replayed it. I did not check the clock, b...
Martial ArtsFrom the Khulna Ring to a Kathmandu Phone Call: Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Quiet DefeatOn a December afternoon in 2026, inside the indoor hall of the Khulna Distric...
Martial ArtsCombat-Sports Analysis on an Empty Data Set: Why Conclusions Without Verification Are DangerousProfessional combat-sports coverage no longer stays confined to what happens...
Martial ArtsBreaking a Three-Games Barrier: Singapore's First Asian Games Team Épée BronzeSingapore has written history at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games fencing...
Martial ArtsThree-Time Grand Slam Champion, No Fixed Address: The Hole in Judo's Safety NetSeptember 2026, Al Quoz, Dubai. A quarter to one in the morning. A boxing gym...
Martial ArtsThe Record Written in Pencil: Bangladesh's Combat Sports and Its Missing LedgerMay 2026, Dhaka. The weigh-in for "The Ultimate Glory" had finished an hour...
Martial ArtsThe 100-Gram Gallows: How a Protective Rule Became the Trap in Korean JudoI was not standing on the Asian Games judo mat. I pieced this story together...
Martial ArtsPakistan Wrestling: A Rs30 Million Bill, Zero Allocation, and an Olympic Dream Stuck in the MudRs30 million. Three wrestlers. And an official allocation of zero. Last year...
Martial ArtsA Referee Died in a Mexican Lucha Libre Ring: The Martinete Question Belongs to an Industry Without a RulebookHook The person lying on the canvas was the referee, not a wrestler. His name...
Martial ArtsUnverifiable, Therefore Lost: Combat Sports' Record Crisis and the Ledger LessonOn a February morning at half past five, the wet floor of the NSC gymnasium i...
Martial ArtsThe Cream-Foundation General: What the Record Says, What the Screen HidesIn January 2026, a single battle scene from the drama “Zhu Yu,” starring Zhan...