Martial Arts
Dana White Didn't Take the Press Secretary's Chair — And That Is the UFC's Real StoryThe television in that Colombo gym in Borella hangs from a wall bracket, thre...
The Ring at the White House: Dana White's Political Shadow and the UFC's New Weight ClassThe last time Dana White entered the White House briefing room, he did not si...
Martial Arts Analysis Hits a Data Wall: Verified Evidence Must Come Before Fight ReportingMartial arts analysis requires more than a broad discipline label. It needs a...
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring Under Controversy's Shadow: Six Rounds, a Small Hall, and an Unresolved QuestionThe Maison de la Mutualité in Paris is a modest hall, the ring barely knee-hi...
Imane Khelif Set for Boxing Return After Two-Year Absence as Eligibility Controversy Follows Her Into the Professional RingThe scheduled fight at Paris's Maison de la Mutualité on December 15 is set f...
The Missing Ledger: Combat Sports' Accounting From Podium to PurseNovember 2026. Dhaka's first professional boxing card. No belt, no television...
Virtual Taekwondo: Not a Whole-Number Medal, But a First-Edition CalculationThe report on Vietnam's medal hopes in virtual taekwondo is really a story...
Heartbreak for Lo Thi Phung at Asian Games: The Evolution of the Asian MMA Market Through a Ledger LensI took twelve consecutive shifts in the combat hall at the 2026 Kuala Lumpur...
From Ring to Ledger: How Dhaka's First Professional Boxing Card Rewrote the Pricing Rules of South Asian Combat SportsA small boxing card in Dhaka in November 2026 had no belt, no television...
Analysis on Empty Data: The Verification Gap Exposed in Combat-Sports ReportingVerified information is the foundation of sports journalism. In a two-tier...
Taolu and Boxing in One File: The Classification Error and the Empty Ledger of Combat SportsIn May 2026, at The Ultimate Glory card in Dhaka, the first page of my notebo...
The Empty Column: The Combat-Desk Report That Never Got FiledFor forty-six days I sat in the same spot in the NSC gymnasium hall in Dhaka ...
The Punch After the Bell: Aziz Abdul's Two Disqualifications and the Uncounted Rounds of Amateur BoxingThe bell had already rung in Nairobi. Three rounds were over, the two...
The Punch Inside the Clinch: Aziz Abdul's Two Disqualifications and Amateur Boxing's Unwritten LedgerThe bell rang in a Nairobi ring at the exact moment two heavyweights were...
Not the 48-47 Cards: The Real Story Is a Missing Memory of the Weight CutThree scorecards. 48-47, 48-47, 48-47 — one judge for Khamzat Chimaev, two fo...
Magnate Lives in the Press Release, the Verdict in the File: A Las Vegas Shooting and Boxing's Invisible Labour TableThe Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department release named three suspects and...
100 Grams on the Asian Games Stage: A Korean Judo Coach Resigns and a Young Athlete's Broken DreamOne hundred grams. Less than the weight of a glass of water. Yet those 100...
One Hundred Grams, One Whole Career: A Korean Judo Coach's Resignation and the Silent Failure of a Weigh-InThe chance to step onto the tatami never came. Beside the weigh-in room at th...
Thirty Million Rupees, Three Wrestlers, Zero Grant: The Line Pakistan's Olympic Wrestling Ledger Never WroteWhen evening falls, the mud cools in a Punjab akhara. Two wrestlers step into...