Martial Arts
A Referee Died in a Mexican Ring: The Case Closed, the System Never OpenedOn October 6, at a card in Nezahualcóyotl on the eastern edge of Mexico City,...
Volkanovski After UFC 333: The Timing Window Is the Biggest Opponent"The first lunge is never the fastest, but it teaches you how to keep your...
Virtual Taekwondo at the 2026 Asian Games: Châu Ngọc Tuyết Sang and Vietnam Taekwondo's Hardware BetOn the morning of October 2, on the competition floor of an event appearing f...
Inam Butt: a two-month ban, a silver medal that gets no reductionIn April 2026, Inam Butt stepped onto the podium to collect the beach wrestli...
Empty Dossiers at Ringside: When a Writer Must Choose Between Silence and Invention5:40 in the morning. I open a file on the screen at the corner of my desk....
UFC 333: Volkanovski, Yan and the Verification Problem After the Final HornRound four of Petr Yan versus Merab Dvalishvili. Camera three, the low-angle...
Volkanovski Stops Evloev in Round 2: A Narrower Win Than the Knockout SuggestsForty-five significant strikes. Thirty-seven significant strikes. That is the...
BoxRec and the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Federation: Vietnamese Fighters' Records Step Onto the International RegisterLate this month, in a meeting room in central Ho Chi Minh City, a delegation...
Ngannou's Torn Knee and Combat Sports' Habit of GuessingOn the night of January 22, 2026, in Las Vegas, Francis Ngannou stepped into...
The Newsroom Scores by Knockouts, the Stand Scores by DifficultyThat night in Chiang Mai, two halls of the same complex opened at once. On th...
Three Wrong Anthems in One Day at Nagoya 2026: The Flaw Sits in Verification, Not in the Operator19:40 on 19 October 2026, an arena in Nagoya. The men's 58 kg final in para...
Three wrong anthems in Aichi-Nagoya: the control was built, and it failedAt three in the morning on 20 October 2026, I sat on the floor of a rented fl...
The Empty Combat-Sports File: When a Sports Journalist Must Learn to Say “Not Enough Data”At 2:40 in the morning, on a night in mid-August, in a fourteenth-floor...
When the Data Goes Silent: Lessons from an Empty Analysis in Vietnamese Martial ArtsIn the past three months, I have received four tactical analysis documents fr...
The $382,928 Judgment Behind a Las Vegas Robbery: A Boxing Promoter's FileThree in the morning, a corridor in a commercial building in Las Vegas, a...
Boxing promoter killed in Las Vegas: the $382,928 labor judgment buried under the 'mogul' headlineA 45-year-old man lunged out of cover. His friends shouted at him to stay...
Filipino Boxing Promoter Shot Dead in Las Vegas: The Buried $383,000 Judgment and the Fighter-Recruitment ScandalLas Vegas Metropolitan Police described the scene as a shared commercial...
A $382,928 Judgment Beneath the ‘Tycoon’ Headline: The Reynaldo Rodis Jr. Story in Las Vegas“Don't move.” The shout came from the people standing beside Reynaldo Rodis J...
Rodis, Red Boxing International and the Labour Judgment Buried Under the Word 'Mogul'"Friends were shouting at him to stay down. Rodis did not stay down." That li...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer in round four, and the class gap that 13 centimetres cannot hideThe clock on the Prudential Center scoreboard stopped at 0:46 of the fourth...
The Lunge at a Gunman in Las Vegas and the $382,928 Judgment Buried Under the HeadlineIn the last three seconds of his life, Reynaldo Rodis chose to move forward....
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera Stops Meyer in Round Four and the 13cm Gap Everyone Read BackwardsThe clock at Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round. Meyer fel...
The Referee's Eye on Rivera: When a Police Officer Stopped a Fighter 13cm Taller, and What We Were Actually WatchingAt 0:46 of the fourth round, Jimmie Rivera placed a right hook on his...
