Martial Arts
Five Kilos, One Month and a Buried Admission: Where Châu Tuyết Vân's Sister's 'Surprise' Really Lives
From Takedown Defense to the White House Lawn: The Three Temperatures of UFC 331
From KL to Dhaka's Ring: The Four Numbers That Don't Add Up Are Bangladesh Combat Sports' Real Scoreboard
Referee's Death at Independent Mexican Wrestling Show: Case Closed by Compensation, but the Dispute Remains
Imane Khelif Returns to the Ring After Two Years in a Controlled Comeback TestImane Khelif is scheduled to return to professional boxing on December 15 at...
Empty Data Pipeline Halts the Martial Arts Reporting ProcessI created my first Deal Sheet in a combat hall in Kuala Lumpur. Alongside...
The Empty Column: The Boxes Nobody Fills in Bangladesh's Combat Sports RecordOn a November evening in 2026, the National Sports Council gymnasium in Dhaka...
Reading the Empty Slate: How a Failed Analysis Pipeline Exposed the Real Risk in Combat-Sports JournalismAt the end of an evening session in a Kuala Lumpur combat hall, I looked at m...
Five Kilos, One Month and a Buried Admission: Where Châu Tuyết Vân's Sister's 'Surprise' Really LivesI did not watch it live. I have no access to the Vietnam training camp, and...
From Takedown Defense to the White House Lawn: The Three Temperatures of UFC 331Gable Steveson was lying flat on the canvas at the twelve-second mark, and I...
No Data, No Analysis: The Empty Martial-Arts Report Is a Warning for Sports JournalismThe most important fact missing from the supplied sports analysis is the...
From KL to Dhaka's Ring: The Four Numbers That Don't Add Up Are Bangladesh Combat Sports' Real ScoreboardI am in Kuala Lumpur in 2026, standing in the mixed zone of Bukit Jalil's...
When 'Deep Analysis' of Martial Arts Is Impossible: The Story Inside an Empty Data StructureLast week a file landed on my desk, titled 'Stage-1 Analytical Report'. Openi...
Empty Output at Stage-1: Where the Data Pipeline Breaks DownThe output produced by the first stage of a sports data analysis system canno...
Referee's Death at Independent Mexican Wrestling Show: Case Closed by Compensation, but the Dispute RemainsThe death of a ring official at an independent lucha libre show in Mineral de...
Three Wrong Anthems, Zero Scoreboards: The Error Nobody Reviewed at the Asian Para GamesThe wrong tune played three times. One Games, three separate medal ceremonies...
The Purse Ledger: The Line Item Dhaka's Ring Hasn't Written YetIn November 2026 a small indoor hall in Dhaka staged the country's first...
The Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Has No Bout Sheets, So It Has No AccountingThree days at the Khulna District Stadium indoor hall, 47 bouts, one spiral...
Twelve Thousand Screens, Forty Chairs, and an Empty ArchiveTwelve Thousand Screens, Forty Chairs, and an Empty Archive Last month I went...
The Empty Column: Combat Sports' Real Opponent Is Its Own Missing DataHalf past midnight in a six-tenant flat in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, I had a tabl...
UFC 333: Volkanovski's 38 Years, Evloev's Zero Finishes, and the 37 Percent the Market IgnoresThere is a separate page in my notebook for featherweight title fights. Two...
A Promoter's Death and a $432,928 Judgment: The Boxing Labor Market Nobody AuditsI was not there. The shots were fired in a house in Las Vegas; I was in an...
Empty Data Pipeline Halts the Martial Arts Reporting ProcessI created my first Deal Sheet in a combat hall in Kuala Lumpur. Alongside...
The Empty Column: The Boxes Nobody Fills in Bangladesh's Combat Sports RecordOn a November evening in 2026, the National Sports Council gymnasium in Dhaka...
Reading the Empty Slate: How a Failed Analysis Pipeline Exposed the Real Risk in Combat-Sports JournalismAt the end of an evening session in a Kuala Lumpur combat hall, I looked at m...
Five Kilos, One Month and a Buried Admission: Where Châu Tuyết Vân's Sister's 'Surprise' Really LivesI did not watch it live. I have no access to the Vietnam training camp, and...
From Takedown Defense to the White House Lawn: The Three Temperatures of UFC 331Gable Steveson was lying flat on the canvas at the twelve-second mark, and I...
No Data, No Analysis: The Empty Martial-Arts Report Is a Warning for Sports JournalismThe most important fact missing from the supplied sports analysis is the...
From KL to Dhaka's Ring: The Four Numbers That Don't Add Up Are Bangladesh Combat Sports' Real ScoreboardI am in Kuala Lumpur in 2026, standing in the mixed zone of Bukit Jalil's...
When 'Deep Analysis' of Martial Arts Is Impossible: The Story Inside an Empty Data StructureLast week a file landed on my desk, titled 'Stage-1 Analytical Report'. Openi...
Empty Output at Stage-1: Where the Data Pipeline Breaks DownThe output produced by the first stage of a sports data analysis system canno...
Referee's Death at Independent Mexican Wrestling Show: Case Closed by Compensation, but the Dispute RemainsThe death of a ring official at an independent lucha libre show in Mineral de...
Three Wrong Anthems, Zero Scoreboards: The Error Nobody Reviewed at the Asian Para GamesThe wrong tune played three times. One Games, three separate medal ceremonies...
The Purse Ledger: The Line Item Dhaka's Ring Hasn't Written YetIn November 2026 a small indoor hall in Dhaka staged the country's first...
The Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Has No Bout Sheets, So It Has No AccountingThree days at the Khulna District Stadium indoor hall, 47 bouts, one spiral...
Twelve Thousand Screens, Forty Chairs, and an Empty ArchiveTwelve Thousand Screens, Forty Chairs, and an Empty Archive Last month I went...
The Empty Column: Combat Sports' Real Opponent Is Its Own Missing DataHalf past midnight in a six-tenant flat in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, I had a tabl...
UFC 333: Volkanovski's 38 Years, Evloev's Zero Finishes, and the 37 Percent the Market IgnoresThere is a separate page in my notebook for featherweight title fights. Two...
A Promoter's Death and a $432,928 Judgment: The Boxing Labor Market Nobody AuditsI was not there. The shots were fired in a house in Las Vegas; I was in an...