Martial Arts
Five Dates, One Resignation: PFL Lost More Than a CEO — It Lost Its Name
Six Rounds, Two Minutes: The Story Nobody Is Telling About Imane Khelif's Return
Imane Khelif’s Return: Eligibility and Governance Still Loom Larger Than a Six-Round Bout
Le Hoang Wins Vietnam’s First Medal at the 2026 Youth Olympics
Rivera Proves the Height Math Wrong in the Bare-Knuckle Ring — But What Does the Win Actually Say?
Martial ArtsBehind the Merab–Usman Hotel Clash: RAF and Free Agency Signals in Abu DhabiBlood was visible on Merab Dvalishvili's face after an altercation at a hotel...
Martial ArtsFive Dates, One Resignation: PFL Lost More Than a CEO — It Lost Its NamePut five dates side by side and the story cleans itself up. John Martin took...
Martial ArtsDana White’s Political Proximity: Opportunity and Polarization Risk for the UFC BrandUFC language in the White House briefing At a White House briefing, Dana Whit...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts Analysis Halted by an Empty InputThe entire fight stops at the first table of the report. There is no opponent...
Martial ArtsSix Rounds, Two Minutes: The Story Nobody Is Telling About Imane Khelif's ReturnThe most important piece of information on the bout sheet going up at the...
Martial ArtsImane Khelif’s Return: Eligibility and Governance Still Loom Larger Than a Six-Round BoutImane Khelif’s six-round bout at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualité on December 1...
Martial ArtsLe Hoang Wins Vietnam’s First Medal at the 2026 Youth OlympicsThe first medal of Vietnam’s 2026 Youth Olympics campaign came beside Le...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Youth Olympic Medal in Dakar: The Silence of the Score Sheet Behind the Taijiquan SilverThe moment I am writing about is not a stadium roar — it is two rows of numbe...
Martial ArtsOne Word, Three Worlds: Three Rules to Know Before Reading Martial Arts CoverageMartial arts is an umbrella term. The advantage of an umbrella term is that i...
Martial ArtsReading the Empty Payload: Why a Sports Analysis Failed and How to Repair ItOver the past decade in sports journalism newsrooms, my biggest lesson has co...
Martial ArtsRivera Proves the Height Math Wrong in the Bare-Knuckle Ring — But What Does the Win Actually Say?How decisive is a height and reach gap in bare-knuckle fighting? Jimmie River...
Martial ArtsFour Golds, Zero Footage: The Accounting Crisis of Bangladesh's Combat SportsMarch 2026. Dust fell from the roof of the Khulna District Stadium indoor hal...
Martial ArtsTwo Weeks After a Referee's Death, the Same Spot Again: In Mexican Lucha Libre the Fault Sits in the Structure, Not in One WrestlerThe arena in Nezahualcóyotl is small enough that the front row can hear a...
Martial ArtsRivera's Bare-Knuckle Knockout: The 13-Centimetre Gap Is Not the Story — the 3-5 Record IsForty-six seconds remained in the fourth round when Meyer went down for the...
Martial ArtsThe Scorecard on a Ledger: When a Combat Sports Verdict Becomes a WitnessOn 7 August 2026, at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Tareg Hamedi of Saudi Arabi...
Martial ArtsThe Semifinal Is the Ceiling: Reading Vietnam’s Four Wushu BronzesOn September 23, four bronzes landed in Vietnam’s daily medal ledger at once,...
Martial ArtsThe 100-Gram Trap: The Unpublished List Behind the Korean Judo Coach's Resignation100 grams. The weight of a small glass of water. It was for this weight that ...
Martial ArtsThree Punches to Death: The Criminal Geometry of a Muay Thai FighterWhen night falls over Buriram, the lights of the ring have long gone out. A...
Martial ArtsThe Referee Always Counts to Three; In Mineral de la Reforma, Who Counts the Referee?The first thing a referee learns is how to count — one, two, three, then the...
Martial ArtsTwo Belts, One Division: The Math RAF Is Hiding in Abu DhabiIn September, Neiman Gracie lost in Moscow to Magomedov. Not two full months...
Martial Arts44-Year-Old 'Muay Saint' Still Strikes Hard: Buakaw Banchamek Beats Chinese Champion Meng Gaofeng for the Second TimeEven at 44, when the left kick lands on the opponent's ribs, time seems to...
Martial ArtsThe Sport Without a Ledger: Combat Sports, Blockchain, and the Invisible Crowd Behind the TruthIn a Dhaka hotel ballroom, only forty chairs were laid out that day. Twelve...
Martial ArtsA Third Belt on Paper, a Long Queue in Reality: The Real Story of Pereira vs. Pavlovich at UFC 335The most telling part of the UFC 335 announcement was the part that was not...