Martial Arts
Five Rounds, No Belt: The Price Sheet Behind Pereira vs Pavlovich at UFC 335
UFC 333: Volkanovski's Age, Evloev's Zero Finishes and Dvalishvili's Knee — The Arithmetic Inside Three Scorecards
Eight Dimensions, Zero Cells: The Scoreboard South Asian Combat Sports Never Kept
Raoni Barcelos: A Fifth-Round Stretcher, a CT Scan, and a Ledger That Won't Balance
Martial ArtsFive Rounds, No Belt: The Price Sheet Behind Pereira vs Pavlovich at UFC 335It was ten past two in the morning. I had just come back from a small combat...
Martial ArtsThe Reckoning Outside the Ring: Rules, Health and Market Now Decide the Future of Combat SportsProfessional combat sports are standing at a dual crossroads of crisis and...
Martial ArtsFrom Podium to Purse: The Invisible Ledger of South Asian Combat SportsThe point awarded in the final ten seconds of a karate kumite semi-final spli...
Martial ArtsThe Knockout Outside the Ring: Aziz Abdul’s Two Disqualifications and Boxing’s Invisible GovernanceOctober 2026, Nairobi. Local time is nearly nine in the evening; in Nagoya my...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski's Age, Evloev's Zero Finishes and Dvalishvili's Knee — The Arithmetic Inside Three ScorecardsOne number stuck in my head after UFC 333 was announced for Abu Dhabi: 37...
Martial ArtsThe Verdict Outside the Ring: A Las Vegas Shooting, a $432,928 Judgment and Boxing's Unpoliced Labour LineThe driveway. Night. Three people, at least one armed. The man who owns the...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, One Disputed Move, and the Ledger Hidden Behind the ScreenThe video looped seven times on my laptop, and every time I stopped at the sa...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of Empty Columns: Data, Silence and the Immutable Truth in Combat-Sports AnalysisThe Ledger of Empty Columns: Data, Silence and the Immutable Truth in...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Empty RecordNowhere to stand, only an empty file. In November 2026, the national karate...
Martial ArtsEight Dimensions, Zero Cells: The Scoreboard South Asian Combat Sports Never KeptLast week a briefing opened on my laptop. Eight dimensions, eight columns, an...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos: A Fifth-Round Stretcher, a CT Scan, and a Ledger That Won't BalanceSaturday night in Las Vegas. The fifth round. The referee waves it off and th...
Martial ArtsThe Sword Ledger: 42–41, 35–45, and the Ten Touches In BetweenThe Sword Ledger: 42–41, 35–45, and the Ten Touches In Between The Hook Two i...
Martial ArtsI Counted It Myself: Singapore's Fencing Bronze, 42–41, and the Invisible Wall at 45It was half past three in the morning in Mymensingh. Open notebook under the...
Martial ArtsCounting Touches: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and the Unease of 42–41The last line in my spiral notebook was a short one: “42–41, overtime, anchor...
Martial Arts42–41: The Touch That Made Singapore's Épée Bronze History — and the Gap That Remains42–41: The Touch That Reset Fencing's Yardstick On the fencing strip at the...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of a Bronze: 42–41, One Overtime Touch, and the Ten-Touch Gap to Asia's Fencing Elite42–41. The women's team épée quarter-final on the pistes at Aichi Sky Expo ha...
Martial Arts42–41 and the Wrong Column: The Sum That Doesn't Add Up in Singapore's Épée Bronze42–41. A team épée match runs to 45 touches. The question is not one to hide:...
Martial ArtsSingapore's First Épée Team Bronze: 42–41 in Nagoya, Then 35–45In Tokoname, after the last spectator left the Aichi Sky Expo hall, the tape...
Martial ArtsThe Reckoning Outside the Ring: Rules, Health and Market Now Decide the Future of Combat SportsProfessional combat sports are standing at a dual crossroads of crisis and...
Martial ArtsFrom Podium to Purse: The Invisible Ledger of South Asian Combat SportsThe point awarded in the final ten seconds of a karate kumite semi-final spli...
Martial ArtsThe Knockout Outside the Ring: Aziz Abdul’s Two Disqualifications and Boxing’s Invisible GovernanceOctober 2026, Nairobi. Local time is nearly nine in the evening; in Nagoya my...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski's Age, Evloev's Zero Finishes and Dvalishvili's Knee — The Arithmetic Inside Three ScorecardsOne number stuck in my head after UFC 333 was announced for Abu Dhabi: 37...
Martial ArtsThe Verdict Outside the Ring: A Las Vegas Shooting, a $432,928 Judgment and Boxing's Unpoliced Labour LineThe driveway. Night. Three people, at least one armed. The man who owns the...
Martial ArtsA 75-Year-Old Referee, One Disputed Move, and the Ledger Hidden Behind the ScreenThe video looped seven times on my laptop, and every time I stopped at the sa...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of Empty Columns: Data, Silence and the Immutable Truth in Combat-Sports AnalysisThe Ledger of Empty Columns: Data, Silence and the Immutable Truth in...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Nobody Published: Bangladeshi Combat Sports' Empty RecordNowhere to stand, only an empty file. In November 2026, the national karate...
Martial ArtsEight Dimensions, Zero Cells: The Scoreboard South Asian Combat Sports Never KeptLast week a briefing opened on my laptop. Eight dimensions, eight columns, an...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos: A Fifth-Round Stretcher, a CT Scan, and a Ledger That Won't BalanceSaturday night in Las Vegas. The fifth round. The referee waves it off and th...
Martial ArtsThe Sword Ledger: 42–41, 35–45, and the Ten Touches In BetweenThe Sword Ledger: 42–41, 35–45, and the Ten Touches In Between The Hook Two i...
Martial ArtsI Counted It Myself: Singapore's Fencing Bronze, 42–41, and the Invisible Wall at 45It was half past three in the morning in Mymensingh. Open notebook under the...
Martial ArtsCounting Touches: Singapore's First Épée Team Bronze and the Unease of 42–41The last line in my spiral notebook was a short one: “42–41, overtime, anchor...
Martial Arts42–41: The Touch That Made Singapore's Épée Bronze History — and the Gap That Remains42–41: The Touch That Reset Fencing's Yardstick On the fencing strip at the...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of a Bronze: 42–41, One Overtime Touch, and the Ten-Touch Gap to Asia's Fencing Elite42–41. The women's team épée quarter-final on the pistes at Aichi Sky Expo ha...
Martial Arts42–41 and the Wrong Column: The Sum That Doesn't Add Up in Singapore's Épée Bronze42–41. A team épée match runs to 45 touches. The question is not one to hide:...
Martial ArtsSingapore's First Épée Team Bronze: 42–41 in Nagoya, Then 35–45In Tokoname, after the last spectator left the Aichi Sky Expo hall, the tape...