Martial Arts
The Empty Chair in Sofia: A Shooting Removes Bulgaria's Taekwondo President and Exposes an Unaudited Power Structure
Volkanovski Stops Evloev in Round Two: A Takedown That Held No One, and a Belt That Stayed in Abu Dhabi
Two Disqualifications in Three Months: Abdul and the Problem Outside the Ring
Three Real Names Behind the Wuxia Page, and a Valuation Lesson for Vietnamese Martial Arts
Slavi Binev Shot Dead in Sofia: When a Governance Node Is Removed From the Taekwondo SystemThat morning in Sofia, the mats had been laid out since 4 a.m. An internation...
The Empty Chair in Sofia: A Shooting Removes Bulgaria's Taekwondo President and Exposes an Unaudited Power StructureTen at night in Busan, I opened the livestream of the international taekwondo...
Volkanovski Stops Evloev in Round Two: A Takedown That Held No One, and a Belt That Stayed in Abu DhabiRound two. Evloev traps a leg, rotates his hips, drags. Volkanovski hits the...
Two Disqualifications in Three Months: Abdul and the Problem Outside the RingNairobi, the evening of October 23. The clock in the third round showed just...
An Eight-Part Combat Sports Report With No Name In It: The Data Gap in Vietnamese Martial Arts MediaOn Tuesday night I opened an eight-part combat sports analysis report. It had...
Tsarukyan, Danis and the RAF title bout: the data points one way, the money points the otherThe Las Vegas press conference ended with a body launching across a table....
Three Anthem Errors in One Day at Aichi-Nagoya: A Control Designed to FailOn 19 October, at a para taekwondo medal ceremony at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026...
Eight sections, zero facts: fight analysts are relearning how to say 'I didn't see it'That night, in a small gym on the outer edge of central Saigon, the third rou...
Tomofumi Takajo Arrested: A Former Judo International's Fall and Japan's System GapI keep a recording of the men's 66kg final at the 2026 Tokyo Grand Slam....
Three Real Names Behind the Wuxia Page, and a Valuation Lesson for Vietnamese Martial ArtsLate June, in the reading room of a traditional martial arts club in Binh...
From Judo Peak to Arrest: The 'Post-Career Cliff' Lesson for AthletesOn September 28, Japanese police arrested Tomofumi Takajo, a former judo...
The Death of a Philippine Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentWhen Las Vegas police released details of a shooting that killed a 45-year-ol...
Filipino Boxing Promoter Shot Dead in Las Vegas: The $383,000 Labor Judgment and the Void Behind the GlamourA shooting during a robbery in Las Vegas ended the life of a Filipino boxing...
Eight Layers of Verification: The Craft of Combat Sports Analysis When Data Is AbsentOn the desk of the Incheon studio lay an A4 sheet printed with the record of ...
Filipino boxing promoter shot dead in Las Vegas: the $382,928 labor judgment left behindTHE MAN WHO LUNGED They say his friends shouted at him to stay still. Three...
Filipino Boxing Promoter Killed in Las Vegas: The Buried $383,000 Labor JudgmentIn a robbery in Las Vegas, Rodis – a Filipino boxing promoter – lunged at an...
BKFC 95: Jimmie Rivera stops an opponent 13cm taller, and the class gap the spotlight never lights upThe clock on the big screen stopped at 0:46 of the fourth round. Meyer lay fa...
Muay Thai Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: A Map of 13 Divisions and a Medical Blind Spot Nobody Has MeasuredSix in the morning on 22 October, the doors of the gymnasium run by Ho Chi Mi...
Muay Opens Vietnam's 2026 National Sports Festival: Seven Women's Classes, Men Capped at 63.5 kgOn the morning of October 20, I stood in the corner of a gymnasium run by a...
Farid Basharat, 16-0 and the Empty Space Beside the Contract: What Yardstick Is the UFC Using to Price a Fighter?In July 2026, Farid Basharat walked out of the octagon with his right arm...
Barcelos discharged after Round 5 knockout in Las Vegas: Age 39 and a stretcher that reassurance cannot coverIn the fifth round of the UFC Fight Night main event in Las Vegas, with about...
Inam Butt's two-month sanction: the silver is gone, the Asian Games place survivesOn the medal podium at the Asian Beach Games held in April, Inam Butt stood...
