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UFC 333: Volkanovski, Yan and the Variable of Where a Fight LivesIn 2026, at the 700-Year Stadium in Chiang Mai, I built a 12-metric...
The 'martial arts' label is killing Asian martial arts analysisIncheon, 2:40 in the morning. I open an eight-part analysis file covering an...
Nguyen Huu Thanh and the ONE belt: Vietnamese martial arts won a fight and lost a systemThe first two scorecards were read out over the noise of Phu Tho Arena, and...
UFC 332: Nine First-Round Knockouts and How the UFC Engineered a RecordKing Green lay face down on the canvas, the referee waving the fight off at...
When Martial Arts News Is Hollow: The Eight Layers of Verification Nobody Walks ThroughA Beijing winter, the heating in the old arena groaning like the breath of a...
UFC 332 and the record 9 first-round knockouts: what the stat sheet left outI stayed seated after the co-main event ended. The clock stopped at 2:32 of t...
Raoni Barcelos Hospitalized After Round 5 TKO: When a 39-Year-Old Fighter Reaches His Final LimitI rewound the tape of the fifth round at three in the morning Chengdu time, a...
The Fifth Round in Las Vegas: Raoni Barcelos, the Stretcher, and the Limits of Being 39There are nights in Las Vegas when the noise does not come from the stands, b...
Asiad 20 Day 1 (Sept 20): Two Bronze Medals and the Data Gap Behind the Karate Kata MedalWhen Bùi Ngọc Nhi lost to a Japanese athlete in the qualifying round of the...
Thirty Minutes in the Sauna: Sanyal, the 77 kg Mark and the Data Vacuum at the 2026 Asian GamesSanyal did not collapse inside the cage. He collapsed in a sauna, after rough...
VAR Eye, the Whistle, and Fragmented Trust: A View from Vietnam's Martial Arts ArenaA Saigon district arena on an April night. Flickering fluorescent light, slow...
The Global MMA Champion Map: Six Promotions, Hundreds of Belts, and the Truth Nobody Wants to Say Out LoudThere is a truth the mixed martial arts world rarely says out loud: we are...
The Zero Line: Why Professional Combat Sports Analysis Is Fooling ItselfThe Zero Line: Why Professional Combat Sports Analysis Is Fooling Itself You...
Nguyen Van A makes history by knocking out Japanese opponent, wins ONE Championship featherweight titleOn Sunday morning at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Vietnamese fighter Nguyen...
Asian Combat Sports and the Data Gap: Reading a Fight by What Nobody PublishesThree judges step onto the ring, scorecards in hand. The announcer lifts the...
Empty Martial-Arts Analysis: Do Not Paint When There Is No DataWhen a second-stage analysis is labeled martial arts but contains no fighter,...
Analysis: Bắc Ninh face the real test as they host CA TPHCM in V-League 1The moment when goalkeeper Van Cong stepped out of the goal line in the 43rd...
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advance to China Masters semis, Kidambi Srikanth loses in quarterfinalsIn the quarterfinals of the China Masters Super 750 held in Shenzhen, China,...
Kim Sang Sik and the South Korea puzzle: When the champion knows who he isI remember the moment Kim Sang Sik laughed when a reporter asked about facing...
The Himass – Tan Vuu Case: KRAFTON Permanently Bans Two PUBG World Champions, and the Legal Silence No One FilledIn eighteen years of covering sports and esports, I learned one thing from my...
