Martial Arts
Tsarukyan vs. Danis: The Press-Conference Brawl and the Risk Calculus of a UFC Title Contender
When Data Goes Silent: Lessons from a Failed Martial Arts Analysis Pipeline
The Empty Fight File: Where a Combat Sports Writer Must Stop
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: The Weight-Class Map and the Bell of the Unnamed
Tran Thi Cam Tu and the World Silver: When a 17-Year-Old Forces Vietnamese Karate to Redraw Its Map
Martial ArtsTran Thi Cam Tu's -59kg silver and the bout sheet nobody keptThree minutes in which nobody fell In the three minutes of the women's -59kg...
Martial ArtsThe Last Performer on the Spear Floor: Duong Thuy Vi, 0.133 Points, and a Cycle About to CloseOne evening in Bangkok, I reopened a clip shot from an almost empty stand....
Martial ArtsVolkanovski Stops Evloev in Round Two: One Knockout, One Empty Seat, and a Data VacuumThe seventh seat to my left in the media tribune was still empty when the...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski stops Evloev inside two, Yan takes the trilogy — and the bantamweight queue just got reshuffledThe clock stopped at 4:28 of the first round, and Lone'er Kavanagh was still...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Petr Yan, Alexander Volkanovski and the Naked Truth About Positional Control in Modern MMAThe third round began, and Merab Dvalishvili stood a little taller. That was...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs. Danis: The Press-Conference Brawl and the Risk Calculus of a UFC Title ContenderInside a press-conference room at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a provocative...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs. Danis at RAF: the presser lunge and a match bent by its own rulebookThat morning in Las Vegas I rewound the RAF press-conference clip and played ...
Martial ArtsThe Lunge Across the Press Table and the Risk-Ledger of a Title ContenderThe Lunge Across the Press Table and the Risk-Ledger of a Title Contender The...
Martial ArtsChimaev Pushes for a Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Cards and a Weight Cut He Cannot RememberKhamzat Chimaev says he does not remember his weight cut. He remembers...
Martial ArtsKhamzat Chimaev, three 48-47 scorecards, and the weight cut he cannot rememberIn the press room after the fight, three scorecards were projected onto the...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Goes Silent: Lessons from a Failed Martial Arts Analysis PipelineThere is a moment in sports podcasting when I learned to read silence. Not th...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Fight File: Where a Combat Sports Writer Must StopOn the night of August 13, I opened a fight analysis file on my laptop. The...
Martial ArtsTragedy in Las Vegas: When a Filipino Boxing 'Mogul' Chose to Step Forward Instead of BackLas Vegas was so sealed that night that heartbeats had to practice whispering...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Stops Being a Companion: Lessons from a Failed Sports Analysis PipelineThe training ground is empty of spectators, but the heartbeat of the ball sti...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera stops Meyer at BKFC 95: the fourth-round knockout and the missing weight classAt 0:46 of round four, Meyer lay face down on the canvas at Prudential Center...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera Stops Meyer in Round Four: 13cm of Height and a Far Wider Gap at the Prudential CenterThe clock on the big screen inside the Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of t...
Martial ArtsBKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer at 0:46 of round four — the 13cm problem and the price of a mismatched bookingThe clock at Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round. Meyer,...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera at BKFC 95: 13 centimetres, two tiers of pedigree, and a fight framed wrongThe clock above the Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round....
Martial ArtsMuay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: What the 63.5 kg Ceiling and a Two-Day Gap Reveal About Vietnam's Talent PoolA Two-Day Gap On October 20, 2026, Muay Thai led the field, starting before...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Reading the Weight Bands, the Schedule and the Missing Records5:40 a.m. on October 22, I sat in the fourth row of the gymnasium at Ho Chi...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Single Elimination and the Regulatory GapsOn the floor of the gymnasium at the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training and...
Martial ArtsMuay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: The Weight-Class Map and the Bell of the UnnamedThere is a sound I cannot forget from afternoons in a small gym along Nationa...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions, Seven Women's Divisions and the Gaps Nobody Has MeasuredOn August 5, 2026, on the London track, I recorded Usain Bolt's reaction time...
Martial ArtsThe Last Performer on the Spear Floor: Duong Thuy Vi, 0.133 Points, and a Cycle About to CloseOne evening in Bangkok, I reopened a clip shot from an almost empty stand....
Martial ArtsVolkanovski Stops Evloev in Round Two: One Knockout, One Empty Seat, and a Data VacuumThe seventh seat to my left in the media tribune was still empty when the...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Volkanovski stops Evloev inside two, Yan takes the trilogy — and the bantamweight queue just got reshuffledThe clock stopped at 4:28 of the first round, and Lone'er Kavanagh was still...
Martial ArtsUFC 333: Petr Yan, Alexander Volkanovski and the Naked Truth About Positional Control in Modern MMAThe third round began, and Merab Dvalishvili stood a little taller. That was...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs. Danis: The Press-Conference Brawl and the Risk Calculus of a UFC Title ContenderInside a press-conference room at Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a provocative...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs. Danis at RAF: the presser lunge and a match bent by its own rulebookThat morning in Las Vegas I rewound the RAF press-conference clip and played ...
Martial ArtsThe Lunge Across the Press Table and the Risk-Ledger of a Title ContenderThe Lunge Across the Press Table and the Risk-Ledger of a Title Contender The...
Martial ArtsChimaev Pushes for a Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Cards and a Weight Cut He Cannot RememberKhamzat Chimaev says he does not remember his weight cut. He remembers...
Martial ArtsKhamzat Chimaev, three 48-47 scorecards, and the weight cut he cannot rememberIn the press room after the fight, three scorecards were projected onto the...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Goes Silent: Lessons from a Failed Martial Arts Analysis PipelineThere is a moment in sports podcasting when I learned to read silence. Not th...
Martial ArtsThe Empty Fight File: Where a Combat Sports Writer Must StopOn the night of August 13, I opened a fight analysis file on my laptop. The...
Martial ArtsTragedy in Las Vegas: When a Filipino Boxing 'Mogul' Chose to Step Forward Instead of BackLas Vegas was so sealed that night that heartbeats had to practice whispering...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Stops Being a Companion: Lessons from a Failed Sports Analysis PipelineThe training ground is empty of spectators, but the heartbeat of the ball sti...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera stops Meyer at BKFC 95: the fourth-round knockout and the missing weight classAt 0:46 of round four, Meyer lay face down on the canvas at Prudential Center...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera Stops Meyer in Round Four: 13cm of Height and a Far Wider Gap at the Prudential CenterThe clock on the big screen inside the Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of t...
Martial ArtsBKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops Meyer at 0:46 of round four — the 13cm problem and the price of a mismatched bookingThe clock at Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round. Meyer,...
Martial ArtsJimmie Rivera at BKFC 95: 13 centimetres, two tiers of pedigree, and a fight framed wrongThe clock above the Prudential Center stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round....
Martial ArtsMuay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: What the 63.5 kg Ceiling and a Two-Day Gap Reveal About Vietnam's Talent PoolA Two-Day Gap On October 20, 2026, Muay Thai led the field, starting before...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Reading the Weight Bands, the Schedule and the Missing Records5:40 a.m. on October 22, I sat in the fourth row of the gymnasium at Ho Chi...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Weight Classes, Single Elimination and the Regulatory GapsOn the floor of the gymnasium at the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training and...
Martial ArtsMuay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: The Weight-Class Map and the Bell of the UnnamedThere is a sound I cannot forget from afternoons in a small gym along Nationa...
Martial ArtsMuay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Six Men's Divisions, Seven Women's Divisions and the Gaps Nobody Has MeasuredOn August 5, 2026, on the London track, I recorded Usain Bolt's reaction time...