Martial Arts
A 585,525-Peso Cheque, a 75-Year-Old Referee, and Lucha Libre's Unlicensed Ring2026-10-13Last year a corner man in Dhaka sent me a photograph of a payout sheet from a...
A Referee's Death, the Martinete Frame, and the Splitting of Blame2026-10-09I rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. A referee...
Zero Point Zero Zero Seven: The Bronze the Nagoya Scoreboard Quietly Buried2026-09-261. Zero Point Zero Zero Seven I did not watch it live. I watched it from a fl...
42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games Wall2026-09-26The scoreboard read 41–41. Team épée, an Asian Games quarter-final, Singapore...
Reading an Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, Lost Records, and the Blockchain Audit2026-10-17The hall was almost empty. November 2026, Bangladesh's first professional...
Martial ArtsReading an Empty Ledger: Bangladesh's Combat Sports, Lost Records, and the Blockchain AuditThe hall was almost empty. November 2026, Bangladesh's first professional...
Martial ArtsThe Price of 100 Grams: Korean Judo and the Naked Arithmetic of Federation FailureI did not watch that judo match at the Asian Games live. In a small Nagoya fl...
Martial ArtsThe Ring's Record, the Hash's Truth — Blockchain's Promise and Its Gap in Combat SportsAt the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo that day, I sat in the stand with a scoresheet...
Martial ArtsMexican Wrestling Referee Death: Performance-Safety Failure and Restorative Justice SettlementThe lights were blazing inside the ring, and a low groan was rising from...
Martial ArtsA 585,525-Peso Cheque, a 75-Year-Old Referee, and Lucha Libre's Unlicensed RingLast year a corner man in Dhaka sent me a photograph of a payout sheet from a...
Martial ArtsThe Mat and the Ledger: Where Pakistan's Olympic Wrestling Journey Is StuckIn the Pakistan Sports Board ledger, wrestling was allotted three million...
Martial ArtsA Referee's Death, the Martinete Frame, and the Splitting of BlameI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. A referee...
Martial ArtsThe Panel Room in Nagoya: A 9.703 Tie, a 9.710 Verdict — and Twelve Years of a Bronze Changing ColourHook: The Day the Same Number Lit Twice On the Nagoya taolu platform, the...
Martial ArtsEmpty Columns and Invisible Fighters: The Real Crisis in Bangladesh's Combat SportsI did not watch it live. I did not watch Bangladesh's first professional boxi...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back and Ruffy's 92.9 Percent — The Two Risks the Odds Aren't PricingI didn't watch the fight live. In a Nagoya apartment at 2:40 in the morning a...
Martial ArtsThirty Minutes in the Sauna and the 79 Percent: Who Keeps the Ledger on Weight Cutting at Asiad 2026Thirty Minutes in the Sauna and the 79 Percent: Who Keeps the Ledger on Weigh...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, One Verdict, 0.42 Points: How Big Was Vietnam's Team Kata Gold?On my Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds once became a way of listening. You...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs Ruffy: The Five-Round Equation and Three Lines Still Awaiting VerificationNAGOYA, PAST TWO IN THE MORNING. On the laptop screen the bout sheet was stil...
Martial ArtsZero Point Zero Zero Seven: The Bronze the Nagoya Scoreboard Quietly Buried1. Zero Point Zero Zero Seven I did not watch it live. I watched it from a fl...
Martial Arts42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games WallThe scoreboard read 41–41. Team épée, an Asian Games quarter-final, Singapore...
Martial ArtsThe Price of 100 Grams: Korean Judo and the Naked Arithmetic of Federation FailureI did not watch that judo match at the Asian Games live. In a small Nagoya fl...
Martial ArtsThe Ring's Record, the Hash's Truth — Blockchain's Promise and Its Gap in Combat SportsAt the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo that day, I sat in the stand with a scoresheet...
Martial ArtsMexican Wrestling Referee Death: Performance-Safety Failure and Restorative Justice SettlementThe lights were blazing inside the ring, and a low groan was rising from...
Martial ArtsA 585,525-Peso Cheque, a 75-Year-Old Referee, and Lucha Libre's Unlicensed RingLast year a corner man in Dhaka sent me a photograph of a payout sheet from a...
Martial ArtsThe Mat and the Ledger: Where Pakistan's Olympic Wrestling Journey Is StuckIn the Pakistan Sports Board ledger, wrestling was allotted three million...
Martial ArtsA Referee's Death, the Martinete Frame, and the Splitting of BlameI rewatched the moment until the crowd noise stopped mattering. A referee...
Martial ArtsThe Panel Room in Nagoya: A 9.703 Tie, a 9.710 Verdict — and Twelve Years of a Bronze Changing ColourHook: The Day the Same Number Lit Twice On the Nagoya taolu platform, the...
Martial ArtsEmpty Columns and Invisible Fighters: The Real Crisis in Bangladesh's Combat SportsI did not watch it live. I did not watch Bangladesh's first professional boxi...
Martial ArtsUFC 331: Tsarukyan's Back and Ruffy's 92.9 Percent — The Two Risks the Odds Aren't PricingI didn't watch the fight live. In a Nagoya apartment at 2:40 in the morning a...
Martial ArtsThirty Minutes in the Sauna and the 79 Percent: Who Keeps the Ledger on Weight Cutting at Asiad 2026Thirty Minutes in the Sauna and the 79 Percent: Who Keeps the Ledger on Weigh...
Martial ArtsFive Judges, One Verdict, 0.42 Points: How Big Was Vietnam's Team Kata Gold?On my Rajshahi rooftop, ninety seconds once became a way of listening. You...
Martial ArtsTsarukyan vs Ruffy: The Five-Round Equation and Three Lines Still Awaiting VerificationNAGOYA, PAST TWO IN THE MORNING. On the laptop screen the bout sheet was stil...
Martial ArtsZero Point Zero Zero Seven: The Bronze the Nagoya Scoreboard Quietly Buried1. Zero Point Zero Zero Seven I did not watch it live. I watched it from a fl...
Martial Arts42–41: The One Touch That Broke Singapore's Three-Games WallThe scoreboard read 41–41. Team épée, an Asian Games quarter-final, Singapore...