Martial Arts
Information Gaps Before Producing a Combat Sports Report: Eight Key Areas Remain UnresolvedA complete and evidence-based combat sports report requires an identifiable...
Khelif's Six-Round Return: The Document Nobody PublishedThe card at Maison de la Mutualité in Paris, December 15. I read the...
Three Judges, One Extra Round, and the Voice From the Corner: Lò Thị Phung at Asiad 20Hook: Shadow Across the Scorecards On the afternoon of September 20 I spent t...
Van's Rise, Steveson's Fall: The Three Stories UFC 331 Left BehindBefore Gable Steveson stepped out of the cage, I looked into his eyes. That...
Three Grand Slams, One ATM Card: The Silent Ledger of Japanese JudoThree hundred thousand yen. That is the first figure that lands in my noteboo...
The Empty Payload: Where Sports Reporting Stops Before Analysis BeginsSports reporting rests on a simple assumption: the facts in the reporter's...
From Dhaka's Empty Hall to Incheon's Studio: The Four Columns That Changed Fight ReportingIn March 2026, at the Bangladesh Boxing Federation national championship in...
The Medal Table With Eleven Blank CellsNovember 2026, eleven at night. In the small room beside the NSC gymnasium, a...
Warriors Under Makeup: The ‘Foundation General’ Debate, Sports Culture, and the Lesson of PerformanceIn early 2026, a film controversy revived an old question with new intensity:...
The Blank Column Is the Evidence: What Bangladesh's Combat-Sports Record Still Cannot Write After Four Karate GoldsOn Tuesday morning I opened the old notebook on the Rajshahi veranda. The 202...
Five Flags, One Gold: Vietnam's Karate Ledger and Bangladesh's Empty PageA 5-0 on the scoreboard after a karate final is not a shutout. In kumite it...
The Ring Had Rules, Nobody to Enforce Them: A Lucha Libre Referee's Death and the Gap Between Three Jurisdictions6 October 2026. The 11 de Julio Sports and Culture Center in Hidalgo state....
The Gap Outside the Ring That Killed a Referee: Lucha Libre’s Three Jurisdictions and One Unwritten CodeNEZAHUALCÓYOTL, Mexico — At Arena San Juan Pantitlán, the lights were not low...
The Blank Purse Column: Why Bangladesh's Combat Sports Have No ArchiveThe last page of the contract still has a blank box. Five printed lines, an...