Martial Arts
A Referee Died From a Head-Drop in Mexico: 585,000 Pesos and a Regulatory Vacuum Nobody Fills
Sanyal, Thirty Minutes in the Sauna, and the Weight-Management Gap in the 2026 Asian Games 77 kg Class
The Empty Dossier in Vietnamese Martial Arts: When There Is No Data, Say So
Chimaev Pushes for a Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Scorecards and the Crack That Sits on the Scale
The Combat Sports Rumor Season and the Limits of a Sourceless Dossier
A Referee Died From a Head-Drop in Mexico: 585,000 Pesos and a Regulatory Vacuum Nobody FillsOn the night of October 6, in a municipal arena in the State of Mexico, the...
A 75-Year-Old Referee and a Head-Drop in Mineral de la Reforma: The Line Between Accident and LiabilityTwo men inside three ropes, under the lights of the Sports and Culture Center...
Sanyal, Thirty Minutes in the Sauna, and the Weight-Management Gap in the 2026 Asian Games 77 kg ClassThe man who woke Sanyal was a Nepali fighter. He opened the sauna door, saw a...
Vietnamese Martial Arts: The Money Entered the Cage, the Data Stayed OutsideHook On the evening of 6 September 2026, Phu Tho Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City...
Slavi Binev shot in Sofia: three power vacuums inside Olympic taekwondoThe stands in Sofia should have been lit. More than 650 athletes from 10...
BoxRec Meets the Ho Chi Minh City Boxing Federation: A Data Birth Certificate and the Blank Fields Around ItI was sitting in the fourth row of a fight night in Ho Chi Minh City. Round...
The Empty Dossier in Vietnamese Martial Arts: When There Is No Data, Say SoThere is a file I still keep on my laptop, named after the exact date it came...
The Rewritten Record: Three Real Figures in Wuxia Fiction and an Accountability Mechanism That Does Not ExistIn 2026, on the road up Mount Hua, a group of Shaanxi Taoist priests blocked...
Chimaev Pushes for a Strickland Rematch: Three 48-47 Scorecards and the Crack That Sits on the ScaleThree scorecards. Three 48-47s. Not one of them identical. When the final hor...
The Combat Sports Rumor Season and the Limits of a Sourceless DossierOn Tuesday night, an analysis file landed in our newsroom system. It had all...
Death of Philippine Boxing 'Mogul': The $382,928 Labor Judgment and the Buried StainA fighter lunged at an armed robber inside a shoe store in Las Vegas. That wa...
The Death of a Filipino-American Boxing 'Mogul' and the Buried Labor JudgmentWhen news of the shooting at a small commercial building in Las Vegas broke,...
The $382,928 Judgment, the Gun in Las Vegas, and the Bottom Tier of Philippine BoxingIn footage released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the...
The $383,000 Judgment and the Death of a Boxing 'Mogul': When the Ring Obscures the TruthIn 2026, a judge at the Los Angeles County Superior Court named Malcolm Macke...
A Detective's Knockout: When Bare-Knuckle Boxing Exposes the Competitive GapI replayed that footage four times. Not to watch the punch — but to count. At...
Muay Opens the 2026 National Sports Festival: Opportunities and Bottlenecks for Thai Boxing in Ho Chi Minh CityMuay at the 2026 National Sports Festival will open the competition phase in ...