Martial Arts
Imane Khelif’s Return to the Ring: Eligibility and Governance Questions Behind a Six-Round Bout
The Arithmetic of an Empty Column: The Report That Contained No Fight
The Empty Report and the Invisible Table: The Results Nobody Ever Wrote Down
Three Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam’s Women’s Kata Trio and the First Gold of the 2026 Asian Games
Fake Reports in the Name of Sports Analysis: The Risk of Producing Full Analyses from Empty Inputs
Martial ArtsNine Minutes of Control Put Tatiana Suarez Back in Contention for Mackenzie Dern's Strawweight TitleA statistic from the Meta APEX in Las Vegas on November 7, 2026, initially...
Martial ArtsImane Khelif’s Return to the Ring: Eligibility and Governance Questions Behind a Six-Round BoutThe six-round bout scheduled for December 15 at Paris’s Maison de la Mutualit...
Martial ArtsThe Arithmetic of an Empty Column: The Report That Contained No FightA sheet of paper landed on my desk last week. Eight columns, eight headings —...
Martial ArtsThe 9.346 Twice Over: The Numerical Gap Behind Vietnam's Youth Olympic Silver in DakarBy six in the morning I had the score sheet. Dawn in Vietnam, 4 November; in...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Youth Olympic Medal in Dakar: A Taolu Silver, but Who Audits the Numbers?At the taiji hall in Dakar, when the scoreboard flashed 18.692, the Vietnames...
Martial ArtsThe Unrecorded Ring: Bangladesh's Unwritten Combat-Sports Ledger and Reading an Empty FileSaturday night in a Dhaka online desk. The shared spreadsheet opened for a...
Martial ArtsThe Empty File: A Ledger of Silence in Bangladesh's Combat SportsLate last Thursday night I opened an analysis file at my desk. Twenty-two row...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Report and the Invisible Table: The Results Nobody Ever Wrote DownA paper arrived on my desk in Mymensingh on a Sunday night. Eight chapters,...
Martial ArtsHo Chi Minh City Boxing Federation and BoxRec: A Promise of International Standards, or a Records-Database Hook-Up?Introduction: A Meeting, A Promise A workshop and discussion between the Ho C...
Martial ArtsA Medal Without Contact: Vietnam's First-Edition Arithmetic in Virtual TaekwondoThe morning session of February 10, 2026. Two athletes will face each other o...
Martial ArtsThree Bodies, One Breath: Vietnam’s Women’s Kata Trio and the First Gold of the 2026 Asian GamesIn the press centre in Nagoya, the afternoon of 22 September was sliding towa...
Martial ArtsFake Reports in the Name of Sports Analysis: The Risk of Producing Full Analyses from Empty InputsA so-called second-stage analysis report on martial arts and combat sports ha...
Martial ArtsThe Empty File: How Bangladesh's Combat Sports Lost Its Own RecordA report landed on my desk last week. Eight columns. Every cell carried the...
Martial ArtsRecords Are Not Sanctions: The Question the Ho Chi Minh City–BoxRec Deal Leaves OpenA bout that survives on video but never enters the database does not exist to...
Martial ArtsThe Geometry of the Mat: Where the Real Risk Sits in Tsarukyan vs DanisFontainebleau, Las Vegas. A printed sentence across a man's chest on stage. T...
Martial ArtsPhilippine Boxing Promoter Killed in Las Vegas: The Ledger of a Cross-Border Labor ExploitationThe gunfire that ended on a Las Vegas street last week was not the closing li...
Martial ArtsWhere the Weight Table Stops: Muay Thai's 63.5 kg Frontier at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports GamesSix. The men's muay thai event has exactly six weight classes, and the table...
Martial ArtsNo Door Above 63.5 kg: The Weight Architecture of Muay at Vietnam's 2026 National Sports GamesThe first name on the competition calendar of Vietnam's 2026 National Sports...
Martial ArtsReading the Empty ScorecardNovember 2026. A hall in Dhaka, the gallery nearly empty, half the floor ligh...