Martial Arts
PFL–MVP Merger: CEO Exit, Rebranding, and the Business Chain of MMA
The Semifinal Ceiling: Auditing Vietnam's Five-Medal Sanda Day
Ninety Seconds, Fifty Seconds, One Extra Round: The Lò Thị Phung Ledger at Asiad 20
The Ring's Ledger: Combat Sports' Traceability Gap and the Case for a Shared Ledger
50-45, 49-46, 49-47: One 25-Minute Fight, Three Verdicts — And a Scorecard With No Date
The Honesty of an Empty Cell: Information Gaps and Federation Geography in Bangladesh's Combat Sports
PFL–MVP Merger: CEO Exit, Rebranding, and the Business Chain of MMAWhen John Martin resigned, I recalled the final afternoon of the 2026 Nationa...
The Semifinal Ceiling: Auditing Vietnam's Five-Medal Sanda DayOn the evening of 23 September, four bronzes landed on Vietnam's medal ledger...
Ninety Seconds, Fifty Seconds, One Extra Round: The Lò Thị Phung Ledger at Asiad 20On the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds became a way of listening. In June...
The Ring's Ledger: Combat Sports' Traceability Gap and the Case for a Shared LedgerLast week a deep-analysis report landed on my desk. Eight columns, and every...
50-45, 49-46, 49-47: One 25-Minute Fight, Three Verdicts — And a Scorecard With No DateThree Judges, One Sheet of Paper, the Same 25 Minutes One wrote 50-45. The...
The Honesty of an Empty Cell: Information Gaps and Federation Geography in Bangladesh's Combat SportsTwenty-eight cells, and the same word in every one: N/A. The table glowing on...
Seventy-Two Percent and a Sourceless Number: Who Will Reconcile the Flyweight King's Ledger?Hook Twenty-six seconds. No title fight should end that quickly, and yet the...
42–41 and a Gym-Bag Camera: How Big Is Singapore's Épée Bronze in an Empty Aichi HallThe fencing hall at Aichi Sky Expo begins to empty around six in the evening....
Seven Kilometres from the Aichi Sky Expo: Singapore's Bronze and the Fencing Sum That Still Does Not Add UpHook: The number that will not reconcile In November 2026 I watched...
How a 45-Touch Match Ended 42–41: The Four Layers Inside Singapore's Épée BronzeUzbekistan in the quarter-final, the scoreboard reading 42–41. In women's tea...
42–41: The Touch That Broke a Three-Games Bottleneck — Singapore's Historic Team Épée BronzeAt the fencing hall in Aichi-Nagoya 2026, the final touch registered as 42–41...
Beyond 42–41, the 35–45: How to Actually Read Singapore's Épée BronzeThe final touch landed a little past one in the morning, Kuala Lumpur time....
42–41: The One Touch That Unlocked Three Games of Blocked DoorsTwo-ten in the morning. On a laptop screen on a Chattogram balcony the hall a...
Singapore's Épée Bronze: The Last Relay Touch and Korea's Ten-Touch GapAt three in the morning, in a closed room in Colombo, I was watching 41–41 on...