Martial Arts
Dana White's White House Connection: A New Market Opportunity or a Political Risk for the UFC?
The Ledger of Empty Rows: Fifteen Years of Silence After the Gold Medals in Bangladeshi Martial Arts
The Name Is in the Ledger, the Score Is Not: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Gap Is Documentation, Not Talent
Fifty-Seven in the Bracket, Seventeen Years Old, and a 0-6 Final: Where the Silver Is Arithmetic, Not Story
Six Seconds of the Martinete: A Referee's Death in Mexican Independent Wrestling and the Document Nobody Published
The Unpublished Ledger: In Bangladeshi Combat Sports, the Missing Record Is the Story
Martial ArtsDana White's White House Connection: A New Market Opportunity or a Political Risk for the UFC?Dana White's Political Position: Close to Power, but Outside Government Offic...
Martial ArtsRivera’s Knockout Market Value: How BKFC 95’s Fourth Round Priced a NameFrom a Kuala Lumpur studio at nearly two in the morning, BKFC 95’s co-main...
Martial ArtsEight Empty Boxes: The Ledger Nobody Keeps in Bangladesh's Combat SportsA report landed on my desk last week: eight chapters — competition and tactic...
Martial ArtsThe Geometry Not Written in Yellow Corners: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Analysis Crisis and the First Round of the Federation QuestionI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames, and never looked back. In...
Martial ArtsVietnam's First Youth Olympic Medal in Dakar: The Questions Nobody Is Asking Behind a SilverI opened the score sheet over morning tea at my Dhaka home. Vietnam's Le Hoan...
Martial ArtsDakar's First Medal and the Silence Around the Host City: What the Two Identical 9.346s RevealI left the print desk for fourteen freeze-frames in 2026 and never looked bac...
Martial ArtsEight Columns, Zero Answers: The Records Combat Sports Never KeepsOn Tuesday morning I opened a file on my desk. Eight sections. The first was...
Martial ArtsMartial Arts in a Data Vacuum: How an Analytics Failure Undermines Competition CredibilityThe competition is over, but the record of it does not exist. Forty-eight hou...
Martial ArtsThe Ledger of Empty Rows: Fifteen Years of Silence After the Gold Medals in Bangladeshi Martial ArtsThe water bottle became a microphone, and the gymnasium learned to listen. Ju...
Martial ArtsThe Empty File: The Record Nobody Kept in Bangladeshi Combat SportsFive-thirty in the morning. The old iron gate of Dhaka's NSC Gymnasium is sti...
Martial ArtsThe Blank Fields Say It All: The Information Crisis Beneath Bangladesh's Combat SportsA hotel ballroom in Dhaka. Forty chairs in five rows. A white bout sheet on t...
Martial ArtsOne Category, Three Rulebooks: The Cost of Misclassification in Bangladesh's Martial Arts and Combat SportsThe story broke in Dhaka. I watched it from a Nagoya apartment at 3 a.m. — no...
Martial ArtsThe Name Is in the Ledger, the Score Is Not: Bangladesh's Combat Sports Gap Is Documentation, Not TalentThere is an old ledger in a federation cupboard in Dhaka. Turn to the page fo...