Martial Arts
The Fall of a Former Japanese Judo Fighter: When World Tour Glory Cannot Sustain a Lifetime
At 58, I Sat Down to Re-read the Judgment of a Promoter Who Died
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: The 63.5 kg Ceiling, Nine Rounds, and the Lines Nobody Wrote
Jena Bishop and the PFL Belt: When a Single Scorecard Decision Shapes a Division's History
Farid Basharat Leaves UFC With a 16-0 Record: Finish Rate and the Logic of Roster Valuation
Lucha Libre Referee Death in Mexico: The Power Vacuum After a Compensation DealAt Arena San Juan Pantitlán in Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, a referee...
Sanda 56kg final at the 2026 Asian Games: Dinh Van Tam, the throw and the gap in beliefAn afternoon at the leitai In the waiting area of the Aichi–Nagoya arena on 2...
The Vacant Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation Presidency: Three Succession Problems and One Cross-Border ThreadThe minute of silence in Sofia lasted less than a minute, but it was the only...
Death of Bulgarian Taekwondo Federation president: a governance node removed from the Olympic systemAn international taekwondo tournament in Sofia had more than 650 athletes fro...
Two Months, Two Disqualifications: When an Amateur Boxer Presses the Button That Deletes His Own RecordThe bell for the end of the round rang out dry and sharp, and the roar inside...
Brawl Before the Bell: When Tsarukyan Puts His UFC Title Shot on the Scale of an Exhibition MatchI was sitting in the third row of the Fontainebleau press room in Las Vegas...
Three Wrong Anthems in One Day at the 2026 Asian Para Games: A File-Configuration Error and the Gap in Protocol ControlAt 7:40 p.m. on 19 October, inside a hall in the Nagoya sports complex, a par...
Khamzat Chimaev and the Fight That Never Appeared on the ScorecardsInside a locker room in a Las Vegas arena, after three judges had read their...
The Fall of a Former Japanese Judo Fighter: When World Tour Glory Cannot Sustain a LifetimeOn September 28, at an ATM in Higashi Ward, Kumamoto City, police arrested a...
When the Data Goes Silent: Lessons from an Empty Analysis in Korean Combat SportsIn the newsroom of a sports outlet in Incheon, there is an unwritten rule I...
At 58, I Sat Down to Re-read the Judgment of a Promoter Who DiedOn the night of August 12, 2026, I sat in a coffee shop by the Han River,...
Tragedy Behind the Glamour of a Filipino Boxing 'Mogul': A Buried Labor JudgmentThe 45-year-old man who fell on a Las Vegas sidewalk did not die from a punch...
Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer in round four at BKFC 95: seven minutes of attrition and a mismatched bookingThe clock stopped at 0:46 of round four. Meyer lay face-down on the Prudentia...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops an opponent 13cm taller at 0:46 of round fourMy phone clock ticked into the fourth round exactly as Jimmie Rivera walked...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival in Ho Chi Minh City: Reading the Format Before the First BellInside the warm-up room, nobody shouts. There is only the sound of hand wraps...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: What the Weight-Class Structure Says About the Athlete PipelineOn October 20, 2026, in a public-service gymnasium in Ho Chi Minh City, the...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: The 63.5 kg Ceiling, Nine Rounds, and the Lines Nobody WroteThe opening ceremony for Muay at the 2026 National Sports Festival is set for...
Muay Thai Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival in Ho Chi Minh City: Reading the Weight-Class Structure and the Safety GapsAt 6 a.m. on October 22, 2026, the lights in the Ho Chi Minh City gymnasium...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: 63.5 kg, Wai Kru and the Format Questions Nobody Is AskingThe ring inside the gymnasium of the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training and...
Three Cropped-Hair Girls and an Unchanged Kata Rhythm: Vietnam's Karate Women's Gold at Asiad 20On the afternoon of September 22, Vietnam time, three young women stepped ont...
Asiad 20, September 20: Vietnam Takes Two Bronzes as Bui Ngoc Nhi Reaches the Kata Podium Through RepechageIt was one in the morning and the small apartment in Guangzhou was quiet enou...
Tran Thi Cam Tu's WKF silver: the 0-6 scoreline and the weight-class question aheadA 0-6 scoreline in kumite is not the same as a loss in professional fighting....