Martial Arts
The Ledger Outside the Ring: From the Philippines to Las Vegas, the Promoter Who Sold His Fighters' Dreams
Empty Ledger, Full Hall: Who Keeps the Money Records in Combat Sports?
Nobody Kept the Body's Ledger: The Dark Accounting of Weight-Cutting at Asiad 2026
Singapore's Bronze, Our Golden Illusion
Empty Payload, Full Risk: Who Prices Martial Arts When the Ledger Goes Blank
Martial ArtsThe Ledger Outside the Ring: From the Philippines to Las Vegas, the Promoter Who Sold His Fighters' DreamsA door in Las Vegas, a robbery, and a 45-year-old Philippine-linked boxing...
Martial ArtsEmpty Payload, Full Risk: Who Prices Martial Arts When the Ledger Goes BlankI still keep the first Deal Sheet in my head, written in a combat hall in Kua...
Martial ArtsThe Fist That Stops at 63.5 kg: Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Games, But the Door Is Only Half BuiltHook: Where the List Ends The first thing I noticed in the 2026 National Spor...
Martial ArtsEmpty Ledger, Full Hall: Who Keeps the Money Records in Combat Sports?A night in November 2026. A small hall in Dhaka, no belt, no television, no...
Martial ArtsDeath of a 75-Year-Old Referee in a Hidalgo Ring: The Silent Ledger of Lucha Libre's Safety FailureDeath of a 75-Year-Old Referee in a Hidalgo Ring: The Silent Ledger of Lucha...
Martial ArtsThree Punches, One Death, and Muay Thai's Silent CorridorThree Punches, One Death, and Muay Thai's Silent Corridor Three punches....
Martial ArtsThe 0.05-Point Line: Singapore's Poomsae Bronze at Nagoya and the Arithmetic of an Empty ColumnOctober 1, 2026, a Thursday. Four in the morning in Dhaka. On screen, the...
Martial ArtsEmpty Input, Empty Ring: Why Martial-Arts Analysis Cannot Proceed Without DataWhen the Data Stream Is Empty, Any Analysis Is Guesswork I opened my notebook...
Martial ArtsVietnam's October 3 Diary: The Table Nobody Publishes Is the One That Tells the TruthA timetable. October 3. Vietnam's delegation schedule for the Asian Games —...
Martial ArtsI Read Vietnam's Asiad Diary From Nagoya: In Combat Sports, the Real Test Is the Qualifier, Not the PodiumThe story broke in Hanoi, and I read it from Nagoya. The story broke in Hanoi...
Martial ArtsWhen Data Is Null, Judgment Is Null: New Standards in Martial Arts AnalysisThe absence of primary data in martial arts analysis presents a fundamental...
Martial ArtsFive Rounds, One Stretcher, One CT Scan: The Ledger of Barcelos's Night in Las VegasThe referee waved it off in the fifth round. On the canvas in Las Vegas lay...
Martial ArtsRaoni Barcelos: A Fifth-Round Stretcher and the Ledger of a 39-Year-OldThe stretcher came out in the fifth round in Las Vegas. Raoni Barcelos was...
Martial ArtsOne Month of Camp, Five Kilograms Gone: Tuyet Sang's Real Fight at Asiad 2026On the Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds once became a way of listening. In Ju...
Martial ArtsNobody Kept the Body's Ledger: The Dark Accounting of Weight-Cutting at Asiad 2026Thirty minutes inside a sauna, and then a man on the floor. The ticket was...
Martial ArtsSanda 56kg: Vietnam's Shot at China's Monopoly Lives on the Scorecard, Not in the Record BookThe stretcher went past the leitai while the arena lights were still full. Th...
Martial ArtsOne Bronze, Three Games of Waiting, and the Ten-Touch Gap on the PisteThe fencing hall at Aichi Sky Expo. Two teams at either end of the piste, mas...
Martial Arts42–41, Then 35–45: Singapore's Epée Bronze and the Ten-Touch DistanceThe Last Touch, the Last Clock Sitting at my Osaka desk, I was holding to an...
Martial ArtsSingapore Women's Épée Team's Historic Asian Games Bronze: A Comeback Sealed in Overtime, but the Gap Remains42–41, overtime. Nobody on the Singapore bench was seated when Elle Koh lande...
Martial ArtsThe Result Sheet Nobody Published: Singapore’s Épée Bronze and the Broken Arithmetic of 45 Touches42–41. That number does not sit on the results sheet of a 45-touch team relay...
Martial ArtsAsian Games Fencing: Singapore's First Team Épée Bronze and the Unfinished Arithmetic of 42–41I was twenty-one, an unpaid runner in the mixed zone at the 2026 KL SEA Games...
Martial ArtsSingapore's Bronze, Our Golden IllusionI did not watch the match live. The Aichi Sky Expo is an hour by bus from my...